Kansas Ready Made Adventures: Quirky Kansas

The unique and quirky roadside attractions across Kansas. Get ready for some fun!

Follow the footsteps of travelers who ones dare to tame the Kansas priory. Here on the Santa Fe Trail ready made adventure, you’ll see how these important route help to form our great nation. Begin your journey Olathe at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm, the only stagecoach stop which is still open to the public. Get a fuel for life on the trail on the historic house or visit the Oxen in the Wood Peg Barn. A little farther west your find council growth, where Indians and government officials met to sign a safe passage Trudy. Take a look at the last chance store and use some of the supplies that travelers purchase before making the 625-mile trip to Santa Fe New Mexico, then stop for a bite trail days bakery and café in the historic to Wiliger home. A Santa Fe Trail land mark, from there you can stir up the dust, as you pull into the Coronado-Quivira Museum in Lyons. Here you can learn of Coronado 1541 journey as well as local Santa Fe Trail history. Next head over to Ellenwood, for a sight you have to see to believe. In 1857, the towns German immigrants built an entire business district underground, toward the Ellenwood tunnels to view this undisturbed time capsule. When you want to stretch your legs, visit grate band and follow the Kansas Quilt Walk, seven historic quilt patterns which where built into the sidewalk. Then cut a trail over the Barton County Historical Society Museum in Village where visitors learn of the rule this region played in the Santa Fe Trail. Make a stop near and you’re learned it at the Santa Fe Trail Center. This official interpretive site showcases the historic route that changed history. Continue just around the corner to the fourth learned historic site, one of the best preserved vestiges of the Santa Fe Trail Indian wars era. Toward nine restored buildings and don’t forget to visit the black smith, you sure to show you its artistic craft. Keep the history alive with the stop of the Sandsage Bison Range for an up close view of this great beast, as well as 3000 hectares of natural priory. Step back in time at the Adobe Museum in Ulysses, where exhibits offer inside into life along the trail. The Morton County Historical Museum in Elkhart has a collection of old cars as well as artifacts from those bygone days. And to really see Kansas is those early travelers did. Visit the Cimarron National Grassland, 23 miles of the Santa Fe Trail once crossed this open priory and you can still see the wagon rats. Be sure to stop at point of rocks for a beautiful view of this vast untamed land. So come on lets get going, follow the trail for your own, Kansas ready made adventure.