Fort Larned National Historic
Site is on Kansas Highway 107, 6 miles west of
Larned. Fort Larned National Historic Site is a National Park Service area and is open to the public. Active from 1859 to 1878, Fort Larned was one of the major military
installations on the Santa Fe Trail (only Fort Union in New Mexico was larger).
This is one of the most well-preserved frontier military
posts in the American West, as well as on the entire Santa Fe Trail. Nine of the ten
original stone buildings remain today and the tenth was
reconstructed in 1988. One
building has been adapted to serve as the museum, interpretive center and administrative
office. A set of Santa Fe Trail wagon ruts is located in a detached area
5 miles south of the Fort.
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