Santa Fe Trail Remains

Infobox_nrhp | name =Sante Fe Trail Remains
nrhp_type = nhl


caption =
nearest_city= Dodge City, Kansas
locmapin = Kansas
area =
built =1821
architect= Unknown
architecture=
designated= May 23, 1963cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=229&ResourceType=Site
title=Santa Fe Trail Remains |accessdate=2008-04-07|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=66000343

Sante Fe Trail Remains, also known as Santa Fe Trail Ruts, is a two mile section of the former 1,200 mile long Santa Fe Trail that is the "longest continuous stretch of clearly defined Santa Fe Trail rut remains in Kansas."

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000343.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Santa Fe Trail Ruts] |32 KB|date=1979 |author=Joseph Scott Mendinghall and Donald Dosch |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000343.pdf "Accompanying aeriel photo, undated, and four ground photos from 1975"] |32 KB]

It is located nine miles west of Dodge City, Kansas on US 50.

There are other sections of Santa Fe Trail ruts that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/multiples/64500224.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Nomination Form: Historic Resources of the Santa Fe Trail, 1821-1880|author=Gallagher, Joseph J., Alice Edwards, Lachlan F. Blair, and Hugh Davidson|date=March 8, 1993|accessdate=2008-04-07]

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