Sunday, November 28, 2010

Past Adventures: Santa Fe Trail

We did not follow the Santa Fe Trail to the T. Cowboy wanted to know how space ships took off so we went to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson. We have followed the trail in Missouri and Eastern KS on a previous occasion and felt that driving it again would be boring when we could see something new and exciting. Great grandma lives only a couple of hours so we detoured deeper into the mountains for a couple of days. And of course we took a different way home.

Day 1
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
2480 Ks Highway 177, Strong City, KS 66869-9829

Day 2
Morning
Kansas Underground Salt Museum
3504 East Avenue G, Hutchinson, KS 67504-1864

Afternoon
The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
1100 North Plum Hutchinson, KS 67501-1499

Evening
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge

Day 3
Morning
Coronado Quivira Museum
105 W Lyon St, Lyons, KS 67554

Barton County Historical Society Museum and Village
85 S. Hwy. 281 Great Bend, KS 67530-1091

Lunch

Afternoon
Ellinwood's Underground Tunnels
N.W. corner of Main & Santa Fe, U.S. 56 at the stoplight

Brit Spaugh Zoo
2200 Main St Great Bend, KS 67530

Pawnee Rock
Pawnee Rock State Historic Site
 
 
Day 4
Morning
Santa Fe Trail Center
1349 K156 Hwy
Larned, KS 67550

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Lunch

Afternoon
Edwards County Historical Society Museum
1027 US Highway 56, Kinsley, KS‎

Spearville Wind Farm
Spearville, Kansas

Boot Hill Museum and Front Street
500 W Wyatt Earp Blvd Dodge City, KS 67801

   
Day 5
Old Bent Fort
35110 Highway 194 E.
La Junta, CO 81050
 
 
Day 6
Buckskin Joe Frontier Town and Railway
 
 
Day 7
Dinosaur Depot
 
 
Day 8
Afternoon
Capulin Volcano National Monument
46 Volcano Rd, Raton, NM 88414
 
Evening/overnight
Cimarron Canyon State Park
 
 
Day 9
Morning
Philmont Museum and Seton Memorial Library
 
Early Lunch
 
Midday

Fort Union National Monument

Afternoon
Pecos National Historical Park

Evening
Santa Fe!!
 
 
Day 10
 
Afternoon
Cadillac Ranch
 
Black Hawk Tour
 
Evening/overnight
Palo Duro Canyon State Park
 
 
Day 11
 
Afternoon
Cowboy Museum
 
Evening
McDonald's Glass House Restaurant
 
 
Day 12
Spent at a friends house. We would have been home one day 11 but Cowboy fell and hit his head and I had to watch him over night and that is not possible while driving home.

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