Today began with a tour of Fort Larned National Historic Site. It was a beautiful day of sunshine and warmth (though very windy) as we walked from building to building. The buildings were not an Adobe structure like Bent’s Fort, but were traditional buildings of a military fort; sandstone blocks, wooden beams, shingled roofs. There was not a perimeter “fence or wall or stockade” that we might have expected to see.
We next stopped by the Santa Fe Trail Center in Larned, just five miles east of the fort. The front of the building gave no hint of the extensive exhibit inside. Also behind it were historic buildings that had been moved to the area for people like us to enjoy, including a sod house, log cabin, train depot, school, church, dug out home and a windmill with well house.
That was our last Santa Fe Trail stop. We had now completed all parts of the trail.
We headed northeast to I-80 and eastward towards Wisconsin, stopping in Lincoln, Nebraska for the night. Tomorrow we’ll head home and arrive in Kenosha.
Photos to follow.
Would do it all over again!! Smiles