Sween's Santa Fe Trail Travel Guide 7/21/2012

from Sween's Travel Guide and Santa Fe Trail Slideshow

WHERE TO STAY TODAY
along the old
Santa Fe Trail
In Missouri | Kansas | Colorado | New Mexico
Also see the histories of stops along the Trail at CyberTrail (SFT)


MISSOURI     (more places to stay in Missouri)   SFT MO photos

* New Franklin - The first shipments to Santa Fe left from near here in 1821
* Boonville - Across the Missouri River from where the Santa Fe Trail began, Boonville offers a place to stay while hiking and biking along the Katy Trail.
* Arrow Rock
* Waverly
* Lexington
* Fort Osage is north of Sibley and Buckner   Ft. Osage MO photos
* Independence
* Raytown
* Kansas City, MO

KANSAS     (more places to stay in Kansas)

* Overland Park

Places to spend the night in Overland Park
* Lenexa
Places to spend the night in Lenexa
* Olathe
* Sleep Inn is 100 yards from shopping at the Great Plains Mall, and 3 miles from the Mahaffie farmstead (pictures).
The Fairfield Inn by Marriott is on the historic Strang Line Road.
* More places to spend the night in Olathe
* Gardner - where the trails divide: the Oregon Trail headed northwest, while the Santa Fe Trail continued westward
Super 8 Motel is at 2001 East Santa Fe Street in Gardner. There are several restaurants nearby, free limited breakfast, and an outdoor pool.
* Edgerton
* Black Jack
* Baldwin City
* Overbrook
* Scranton
* Burlingame
* Council Grove
* Diamond Springs
* Lost Springs
* Durham
* McPherson
* Inman
* Lyons
* Fort Zarah
* Great Bend
* Pawnee Rock
* Larned
* Kinsley
* Fort Dodge
* Dodge City
* Dodge House - within 2 miles of Boot Hill, the Dodge City Zoo, KS Teachers Hall of Fame, and the Gunfighters Wax Museum, this hotel has an indoor heated pool, a fitness center, hot tub, and restaurant on site.
* Travelodge Dodge City - 9 blocks from historic old Dodge City, and with golf and tennis 1 mile away, this hotel has an outdoor pool and in room movies.
* more places to spend the night in Dodge City
* Cimarron - At Cimarron, there were two trail options.
Turn south on the faster "dry" Cimarron CutoffContinue west on "wet" the Mountain Branch
KANSAS continued
* Lakin
* Chouteaus Island Upper Crossing of the Cimarron River
* Ulysses
* Ingalls - Middle Cimarron Crossings
* Elkhart
* Point of Rocks marker
* Liberal
OKLAHOMA     (more places to stay in Oklahoma)
* Guymon
NEW MEXICO
* Clayton
    also see: The Eklund Hotel
* Colmor
* Wagon Mound

Last year my wife and I were exploring a little bit of the Santa Fe Trail around the Clayton area and stopped in at the Eklund Hotel for dinner. It has been recently restored and is a really great place to stay and/or dine when in the Clayton area. - Brian Kreimendahl, 2006
KANSAS continued
* Ingalls
* Dodge City
* Fort Aubrey
COLORADO    (more places to stay in Colorado)
continuing on US Route 50
* Holly
* Lamar
* Fort Lyon
* Bent's Old Fort
* La Junta
* Timpas
* Iron Spring
* Trinidad
* Pueblo
NEW MEXICO
* Raton
* Capulin Volcano
* Cimarron
* Maxwell
The trails rejoin at Springer, New Mexico
NEW MEXICO     (more places to stay in New Mexico)
* Springer
* Watrous
* Fort Union
* Las Vegas
* San Miguel del Vado vacinity
* Pecos NPS
* Glorieta
* Santa Fe

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