The Santa Fe Trail #3: Pawnee Rock State Historic Site, KS

I will take you on a tour of Pawnee Rock, a famous landmark on the Santa Fe Trail in the American Southwest. The Santa Fe Trail was a mid-19th-Century, 770- (or 825-) mile long, two-way road which was used for about 50 years by commercial traders, celebrated now in the Santa Fe National Historic Trail. (By contrast, the Oregon Trail was a one-way immigrant road.) Native Americans used the Rock for hundreds of years before that.
Pawnee Rock was and is a prominent rocky outcropping about halfway on the journey between Independence, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico (which was part of Mexico until 1848).
I had expected just an historic marker at the site, but the state of Kansas has established a pleasant park at the site with a shelter, an observation platform, and a walk with many explanatory signs.
I suspect some visitors overlook the plaques embedded in the face of the Rock. I missed them myself initially.
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Too bad most of the original rock is long gone from building and the railroad

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Yup.