Dodge City, United States Travel Blogs

Thursday 29 May
Jun 9, 2008 (4 photos)

... museum and had some lunch but there wasn't much else to keep us in this town so we left late afternoon. Our next stop was Dodge City which was only another hour away. Steve said it was the most stressful bit of driving so far as the wind was pushing ...

Mesa Verde to Dodge City, Kansas
Jul 28, 2009 (6 photos)

Day 5 - Gunsmoke....in Dodge City, KS
Jul 12, 2007 (14 photos)

We have just arrived in Dodge City, KS.  We broke off 365 miles today... Rick was done.. Rick is really in the spirit of this town and is wearing his chaps with a gun belt.  He keeps challenging everyone to a dual... I ...

Cowboy Country!
Dec 6, 2004 (1 photos)

Yee ha! Welcome to cowboy country! Hmmm... Arrived in Dodge City at a Gas Station on the outskirts of town - didn't bode well for the size, or choice of this as a stop, and then on the night I left Dodge, it was from an unmanned, unmarked station siding ...

Day 15 - Durango to Dodge City, KS
Aug 27, 2008

Noting to say but a day full of driving

Welcome to Kansas
Apr 7, 2008

Why I ask you.... WHY? I know the railroad is the bloodline of America but why do motels, both the cheapies and the flash ones, insisit on being so close to railway lines. Result not much sleep last night due to passing freight trains which took a minimum ...

Dodge City, Kansas
Jul 2, 2005 (1 photos)

We stop in Dodge City and see a gunfight and a museum. The boys chase a "bad guy". We have Sarsaparilla at the bar. Steve wants to go to the wax museum...not recommended by us. We send the night In Dodge City at the Water Sports Campground.

Leaving Kansas
May 20, 2006 (16 photos)

... some where still buried on the hill. Unfortunatly, the hill is now covered with homes and businesses. We walked through a mock of what Dodge City looked like in the olden days. There was a demonstration of a shoot out. After that, we headed for Colorado. ...

Getting the hell INTO Dodge !
May 12, 2009 (17 photos)

... just track when to play so they don't overlap. 3. And maybe most importantly - cows smell. We finally made it to Dodge City shortly after 5pm on Sunday and after checking into the Cowboy quirky Dodge House Hotel we headed up to Sam's Dads house for ...

My week
May 11, 2007 (15 photos)

... who were able to get a hotel room after the Tornado.  Some pretty wild stories.   We ate our way through Dodge...steak every night.  I'm sure it had nothing to do with the excessive number of dead cattle I saw on the way in. (eek ...

My arrival
May 6, 2007 (5 photos)

... extra 10 minutes or so, until I knew I wouldn't lose my lunch or pass out.  I rented a car and headed to Dodge.  This is normally a 2 hour drive, straight across the highway and through a town called Greensburg.  Over the weekend there ...

Howdy Cowboy!
Jun 30, 2009 (9 photos)

Short ride today into Dodge City 55 miles into the wind but we had a good pace line and made short work of it.  The headlines in the local "Gazette" was the wheat harvest is almost in.  We saw the giant combines thrashing through the fields and ...

The
Jun 25, 2009 (3 photos)

Mark is in his glory, thinks he's back in the 1800's.... Home of the "Testicle Festival"  its on July 24th sorry we're going to miss it!!!

Kansas Breakfast
Oct 19, 2008 (5 photos)

OK, I am ready for my lobby breakfast after that long ride yesterday and thinking that 288 mi for today is a piece of cake. Hot cereal would be great and there it is, a big hot pot with hmmm, something porridge colored but grainy with dark dots ...

Getting into Dodge
Oct 18, 2008

... . Lots of fields and little oil derricks (?) and water in the fields. This would be the place to have acres of windmills. In Dodge, the motel is OK and just a couple of blocks away I finally had a switch from regular fare at a Thai restaurant that was ...

Blazin' The Trail!
Jun 24, 2007

... time for me as I thought about all the lives that were lost and are STILL being sacrificed because of that day. From Dodge City, we traveled westward across the Cimmaron Route, through Garden City, KS and Lakin, KS.  The Santa Fe Trail Splits off ...

The trip home
May 13, 2007

Much better drive to Wichita than from Wichita - 2 hours start to finish.  Stayed in Wichita my last night to ensure I could make my plane, since I'm not much of a morning person. Caught the flight from Wichita to Chicago...no problem.  Chicago ...

Map pin only
Aug 24, 2007

Map pin only