Rock City

This past weekend we packed up the car and headed to Nebraska for my husband's 20 year high school reunion.  Going to Nebraska is nothing new to this family, we do it many times every year to see family and for holidays, etc.  However, this time I wanted to make the drive a little more interesting.  So we road tripped to central Kansas instead of our usual get there as fast as you can route.  We headed out to Salina, Kansas and from there drove north to a little known park called Rock City.  Call me crazy, but I love Kansas scenery.  I love the rolling hills and the openness of the plains.  It was also a perfect cloud day, you know the kind that are scattered throughout the sky like puffy marshmallows.  Rock City, just southwest of Minneapolis, KS, is home to the largest collection of giant rock concretions in the world.  What is a concretion you may ask, check here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concretion  The best way to explain it is in the photographs, because of course I took lots of photographs.  Would I recommend this pit stop on a road trip, absolutely!  It isn't too far off of I-70 in Kansas, the kids loved to climb around on the rocks, a good place to stretch an play for a bit, the little gift shop is run by a very sweet lady who gave the kids popsicles and all of the gifts are very reasonable (kids gifts from $.25).  Here are some images from our trip through Rock City.

Time to run after a long car ride!

King of the mountain

Pets are allowed too!

My little rock climber.

Odd luck to catch the bird flying overhead.

A pensive moment.

Beautiful land, very well kept.

Run more!

There was also a nice prairie trail that lead to some more concretions.

"Lips" as named by the locals.

We called this one "lounge chair"

"Doughnut"

The nice lady handing out popsicles.