Santa Fe Trail Ruts

Santa Fe Trail Ruts - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Santa Fe Trail Remains, also known as Santa Fe Trail Ruts, are a two-mile (3 km) section of the former long Santa Fe Trail, described as the "longest continuous stretch of clearly defined Santa Fe Trail rut remains in Kansas." Now owned by a preservation organization, the site is visible from a pull-off area on United States Route 50 near Dodge City, Kansas. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963.Joseph Scott Mendinghall and Donald Dosch (1979) , National Park Service and Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
date from: 1821

Source: en.wikipedia.org