Cimarron National Grassland
National Grassland · Elkhart, Kansas
A hundred and eight thousand acres in the far south-west corner of Kansas, and the largest tract of public land in the state — shortgrass prairie, sand sage and the usually dry bed of the Cimarron River, all of it land the federal government bought back in the 1930s after the Dust Bowl ruined the farms that had ploughed it. Twenty-three miles of the Santa Fe Trail cross it, which is the longest publicly owned stretch of that trail anywhere, and the wagon ruts are still there.
242 East Highway 56, Elkhart, Kansas, 67950, United States
FREE and open at all times, year round. US Forest Service land with dispersed camping permitted throughout and a basic developed campground at Point of Rocks. The Forest Service office in Elkhart keeps weekday hours and books the spring prairie-chicken viewing blinds. Hunting is a managed use in autumn.
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