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"[The tour] was by far the most enjoyable trip we ever took. The history, the scenery, the adventures we encountered were all astounding and fun. We have done a lot of travelling, but this trip was by far the most memorable." - Penny & Sheik Novak, Philadelphia, PA

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Santa Fe Trail

adobe walls and wagonAvailable for Pre-formed Groups
Begins in Kansas City, MO
Ends in Albuquerque, NM

Includes:  deluxe motorcoach, professional tour director/historian, 8 nights’ lodging, 8 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 4 evening meals, baggage handling, airport transfers, admission fees and park entrance fees as noted.

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Tour Highlights:

  • Arabia Steamboat Museum
  • Fort Leavenworth
  • Shawnee Mission Indian Museum
  • Alexander Majors Home
  • Mahaffie Farmstead
  • Kansas State History Museum
  • Council Grove
  • Hays House
  • Fort Larned National Historic Site
  • Pawnee Rock State Monument
  • Bents Old Fort
  • Koshare Indian Museum
  • Baca House
  • Fort Union National Monument
  • Pecos National Monument
  • Santa Fe

Tour Itinerary:

Day 1 – Airport transfers.  Welcome dinner.  Overnight:  Kansas City, MO (D)

Day 2 – Visit the National Frontier Trails Center, which sits right on the original spring where pioneers and muleskinners filled their water barrels for the journey ahead. Visit the Arabia Steamboat Museum, to see supplies identical to those carried over the trail by Santa Fe traildrivers. At Fort Leavenworth, view actual wagon ruts.  Tour the Frontier Army Museum.  Overnight: Kansas City, MO. (B,L)

Day 3 – Tour the famous Shawnee Indian Mission School and Alexander Majors home.  End the day with an authentic pioneer meal and living history interpretation of life on the trail.  Kansas City, MO (B,D)

Day 4 – Visit the  Mahaffie Farmstead and Stagecoach Stop which served  commercial travelers along the Santa Fe Trail. Visit the Kansas State Museum of History.  Overnight: Council Grove, KS.  (B, D)

Day 5 – Intepretive tour of Fort Larned, one of the best preserved frontier military forts in the country. Visit Pawnee Rock, the midpoint on the trail and site of numerous and deadly Indian attacks.  Overnight: Garden City, KS. (B)

Day 6 – Tour Bent’s Old Fort, the center of trading activities between 1833 and 1849.  Visit the Koshare Indian Museum, view a demonstration of Indian dancing. Overnight:  La Junta, CO (B, D)

Day 7 – Tour the Baca House in Trinidad, built by a Santa Fe Trail merchant right on the trail in 1870, and visit Fort Union, the largest and most important military fort along the trail.  Overnight:  Las Vegas, NM. (B)

Day 8 – Pecos Pueblo,  a major landmark on the Santa Fe Trail, was already a ruin when the first Santa Fe Trail wagons rolled past in 1821.  In Santa Fe we’ll have time to explore the famous shops lining the plaza before our festive farewell dinner.  Overnight:  Santa Fe, NM (B, D)

Day 9 – Airport transfers provided to Albuquerque.  (B)


Shebby Lee Tours, Inc.
PO Box 1032 • Rapid City, South Dakota 57709
Fax: 605-343-7558
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