• The setting sun over the Flint Hills casts shadows across the wide expanse of tallgrass prairie.

    Tallgrass Prairie

    National Preserve Kansas

Virtual Tour

Virtual Tour of the Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch

Click on the links below to take a closer look at a specific building.

Ranch House

Spring Room

Curing Room

Outhouse

Icehouse

Barn

Carriage House

Chicken House

Scratch Shed

School
 
lithograph
1887 lithograph of the Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch built by Stephen F. Jones

Did You Know?

Aerial photo of the Flint Hills at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Kansas was once the bed of a vast inland sea. The unique, stairstep landscape of the Flint Hills was formed through a process of differential erosion. Erosion washed away the soft shale layers and left the tougher layers of limestone and flint to form the hilltops and prominent benches.