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Pawnee Rock State Historic Site
Pawnee Rock, Kansas
A sandstone outcrop on the Santa Fe Trail where travellers carved their names.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 30 min
This rise was a famous landmark on the plains, and travellers climbed it to look for the way ahead. A short path leads to the top where you get long views over wheat fields. It is free and quiet, a good leg-stretch on US-56.
Good to know
- Free and open at all hours
- Signs on the summit explain the trail history
- Check for ticks in tall grass
- Best time
- Morning
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Paved road to a small car park; fine for 2WD
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
- Dogs
- Dogs on a lead
Facilities
- Picnic tables
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