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Apr 27, 2023 · Exploring Dodge City, Kansas - April 2023. Come along with us as we tour historic Dodge City, Kansas. Gun fights, whiskey and dreams fueled this cow-town in the 1870’s. Westward expansion...
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- Bruce Foster - Retired Roamerz
Jun 29, 2012 · You'll feel at home in Dodge City, just as the cowboys did in the 1870s. Relive a Legend! When you make your "get away" to Dodge City, you'll find everything you need to ensure a...
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Mar 27, 2021 · In this episode we are going to give some tips on what to see in Dodge City, Kansas, the "Wickedest Little City in America." On our route back across the heartland of the United States, we...
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- On The Mewve
- Boot Hill Museum
- Dodge City Trail of Fame
- Dodge City Days
- Santa Fe Trail Remains
- Wright Park Zoo
- Home of Stone
- Long Branch Lagoon
- Cattle & Feedlot Overlook
- Dodge City Brewing
- Boot Hill Distillery
Dodge City’s top attraction is an outdoor museum documenting the early settlement’s gunslinging past in an entertaining way. The name comes from the old cemetery, which used to be on the northwest corner of the site. Boot Hill was commonly used for Old West cemeteries, given the number of people who died violent deaths “with their boots on”. The Bo...
At the Dodge City Visitor Information Center you can get hold of a map for a self-guided tour of the Old Dodge City National Historic District. Marked with an itinerary of medallions embedded in the sidewalk, the Dodge City Trail of Fame was inaugurated in 2003 and pays tribute to famous and infamous former residents like Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson ...
The second-largest community festival in Kansas takes place in Dodge City at the height of summer. Dating back more than 60 years, Dodge City Days is a ten-day celebration in late July and early August, with 100,000 people attending at least one event. This is all a fun-packed tribute to Dodge City’s Western heritage, with a parade, live music, art...
History is carved into the ground at this site, nine miles west of Dodge City. At a pull-off area along US 50, the Santa Fe Trail Remains are a U.S. National Historic Landmark. What you’ll find is the longest unbroken stretch of clear Santa Fe Trail rut remnants in the state. Over the decades between the 1820s and the 1870s, the prairie here was di...
On the south side of downtown, Wright Park has had a zoo for the best part of a century now. This attraction was founded in 1926 when the city acquired a pair of black bears and raccoons to put on show. The zoo’s enclosures were scattered around the park until moved to one site in the 1980s, and this was expanded a decade later. Accredited by the A...
Dodge City’s oldest building still in its original location is a fine limestone house built in 1881 for John Mueller. He was a bootmaker by trade, and was such a success that he invested in a saloon and soon became a cattle rancher. Things had turned sour for him by 1890, as he lost his cattle in a blizzard and his boot shop burned down. Returning ...
At the north end of Wright Park is a western-themed public water park that opened its doors in 2016. All the attractions have names harking back to the days of the cattle drives. There’s Cowboy Creek, a 720-foot lazy river, Wrangler Rapids, a wave pool and Dalton’s Plunge, a thrilling boomerang slide. Smaller members of the posse will love Fort Spl...
It’s hard to get a sense of the full scale of the cattle industry in Dodge City until you come to this scenic vantage point on the city’s east side. The Cattle & Feedlot Overlook is posted on a hilltop next to the Dodge City Regional Airport, and grants an all-encompassing view over the feedlots to the southeast. As you can imagine, this quantity o...
When this purpose-built craft brewery opened in downtown Dodge City in 2017 it became the first establishment of its kind in southwest Kansas. The master brewer at Dodge City Brewing has close to 20 years of brewing experience and is a BJCP Certified Beer Judge. There are normally six beers on tap, and when we made this list these included the flag...
Directly on top of the original Boot Hill Cemetery, where early Dodge City’s gunfighters, scofflaws and prostitutes were laid to rest in the 1870s there’s now a small-batch craft distillery. The Boot Hill Distillery is housed in the old Municipal Building (1929), which previously hosted the municipal court and various city departments. The tasting ...
Dodge City Convention & Visitors Bureau, Dodge City, Kansas. 6,087 likes · 66 talking about this · 482 were here. Whatever your idea of adventure is, it's all waiting for you in Dodge City, Kansas,...
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Dodge City is a city in and the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 27,788. [6] [7] It was named after nearby Fort Dodge, which was named in honor of Grenville Dodge.
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