The One Trail In Kansas That Leads You Straight To An Extraordinary Cave
There’s plenty of caves in Kansas to explore (several hundred, in fact), so when you’re out on a trail, sometimes you find something awesome along the way. This specific trail in Ellsworth County leads to an important piece of Kansas history — this extraordinary cave! Come take a look and check out some Kansas history at the same time:
If you can't tell by the sign, we're headed out to Faris Caves on the Smoky Hill River trail in Ellsworth. Let's get hiking!
Each cave is about 12x12x10 feet. The coolness of the caves means they'd be a good option in Kansas' hot summers. Later, early settlers of the Faris family purchased the land and built a house close to the caves, using them as a spring house and later a schoolhouse for a short time.
The entire area around the caves was inhabited by Native Americans before these settlers, so some of the carvings left behind might have been theirs. Well, before modern people started carving anything and everything here, that is.
