• freight wagons on the Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe

    National Historic Trail CO,KS,MO,NM,OK

Places To Go

There are many places of history and commemoration on the Santa Fe Trail for you to visit. Museums, interpretive centers, and historic sites provide information and interpretation for the Santa Fe National Historic Trail. Please contact each site for closures or changes in hours before you go.

Due to the trail's length, these historic sites and interpretive facilities are organized above by state. Within each state, the sites are organized geographically, from east to west.

For federal sites on or near the trail in each state, visit Nearby Attractions.

 
Two people on a boardwalk in a treeless open prairie in Kansas
Visitors enjoy seeing trail ruts near Dodge City, Kansas.
NPS photo

Did You Know?

A barbed wire fence and windmill are near the Point of Rocks formation on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail in New Mexico

In February 1880, the first railroad steam engine reached Santa Fe, ending nearly 60 years of overland use of the historic Santa Fe Trail.