• Fort Parade Ground and Officers Quarters as seen from Guardhouse

    Fort Scott

    National Historic Site Kansas

While At The Park - Self Guided

The following activities are availabe as self-guided activities at the site.  Answers to the scavenger hunt are found at various buildings throughout the site. Answers to the history hunt are found in the museum. 

If you choose to have your group participate in one of these activities, we have clipboards available for students to use while filling in answers. Please inform us in advance how many students you will have, so that we can have clipboards available at the visitor center. No more than 40 at a time. 

Please make copies in advance for your students to use and make sure students bring their own pencils. Advise students to write on clipboards only and avoid making stray marks on walls or exhibits.

Once your visit has been completed, teachers may request that answer sheets be emailed to them.

For more information, contact the education coordinator via email or call 620-223-0310.

 

Scavenger Hunt pdf file

History Hunt pdf file

Site Map pdf file 64.3 kb

Did You Know?

A coyote in Kansas

During their free time, the officers enjoyed hunting. Captain Swords wrote "everybody here is hunting mad, hunting and dogs constitute their thoughts by day and dreams by night" Of another officer, Swords said that "wolf chasing and duck hunting" were the only things that reconciled him to the place