Sween's Santa Fe Trail Travel Guide

from Sween's Travel Guide and Santa Fe Trail Slideshow

WHERE TO STAY along the old
Santa Fe Trail

Also see the histories of stops along the Trail at CyberTrail (SFT)


MISSOURI     (more places to stay in Missouri)

* 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
* 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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