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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