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| What is this?: | Purpose of activity: |
| An 11-day camping trip for 5th and 6th graders, from Sunday, June 5, to Wednesday, June 15. | To develop an appreciation of the historical events that occurred during the time of the Santa Fe Trail--1821-1870. |
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the trip.
(Click on the dates below to see
photos from each day!)
Sunday, June 5--Day 1
6:00 AM--Meet at Wamego Middle School,
Wamego, KS
7:00 Depart Wamego, Destination Council Grove
Lunch at McPherson City Park
Tour Coronado-Quivera
Museum, Lyons
Ralph's
Ruts-Ralph Hathaway's 1/2 mile of Santa Fe Trail Ruts
Camp
Aldrich
Monday, June 6--Day 2
8:00 AM Departure
Pawnee Rock,
Santa Fe Trail Center at
Larned
Fort Larned
Depart for Fort Dodge--Lunch at
Dodge City
Visit Wind
Farm
Arrive in Ulysses at Wagon
Bed Springs
Depart for Elkhart
-- Supper and Wagon Rides donated by
Morton Co. Historical Society
Camp at Morton Co. Fairgrounds
Tuesday, June 7--Day 3
8:00 AM Departure
Point of Rocks and Middle Springs
Arrive at State Line--Pictures
and Song
Autograph Rock , Kenton,OK
Lunch at Wheeless, OK
Camp
Nichols, OK, McNee's Crossing-Kenton,Ok
Camp at Clayton
State Park, Clayton, NM
Visit dinosaur tracks
Wednesday, June 8--Day 4
8:00 AM Departure
Point
of Rocks
Lunch at Daniel's Ranch
Wagon Mound--Ft. Union
Villanueva
State Park
Thursday, June 9--Day 5
8:00 AM Depart for Pecos National Park
Santa Fe--Loretto Chapel, Miracle Staircase
Santa Fe-National Cemetery
Camp at Pojoaque Pueblo Middle School
Friday, June 10--Day 6
8:00 AM Departure
Bandelier National Park tour Anasazi
Ruins
Lunch in Los Alamos
Bradbury Science Museum
Los Alamos
Historical Society
Supper Served by End of the Trail
Chapter of Santa Fe Trail Assoc.
Buffalo Soldiers Visit
Saturday, June 11---Day 7
9:30 AM Departure
Las Vegas, NM--View Trail Ruts from
Mesa
Kearney's Gap
Sumerlan Campground, Raton, NM
Sunday, June 12--Day 8
9:00 AM Departure
Capulin
Volcano
Mountain Man Rendezvous--NRA
grounds
Return to Sumerlan
Campground
Optional Non-Denominational
Church Service
Camp Songfest
Monday, June 13--Day 9
8:00 AM Departure
Highway of Legends
-Stonewall, CO
Lunch at North Lake
Bent's
Old Fort
Koshare
Indian Museum, La Junta
Talent Show
Tuesday, June 14--Day 10
8:00 AM Departure
Camp Aldrich--Swimming
Awards Night--Camp Songs
Wednesday, June 15--Day 11
9:00 AM Departure
Lunch at Solomon Rest Stop
Wamego Middle School by 2:00
West Elementary
School | Wamego
Middle School | USD
320
Wamego, Kansas
St George Elementary
School
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