Kansas travel

The Tucumcari KOA is a great stop, and neat town to visit also. Ask the KOA manager to show you his pet tarantula spider in the water valve compartment near the front of the KOA office!

it is amazing the things you folks can come up with. I've heard of the round barn but imagine, a pet tarantula. There is so much fun available here, and I'm very serious, you can travel the width and breath of this fantastic country looking at all the fantastic, silly and obscure things that you all known about. Keep it up and keep it posted, we're still planning trips for the next few years.

Hopefully, the world's largest hand dug well is open in Greensburg, KS. A tornado wiped them out a few years back. You can see wagon ruts on the old Santa Fe Trail along both 56 and 54. Watch for prairie dog villages too. I used to give the wife my SW KS Wildlife report when I returned to Wichita when I commanded the Army Recruiting company out there. Enjoy your trip! Blessings.

My experience is with US-400, US-166 in the eastern half of the state, and US-54 east of US-169. Then 400 again from Dodge City into Colorado.

US numbers highways in Kansas are usually pretty good, with generous lane widths, good shoulders, and passing lanes where needed. One thing to keep in mind for Kansas is the importance of "Keep Right Except to Pass" because the passing lanes are usually marked for use by traffic traveling in both directions.

Can't vouch for Oklahoma, the US highway system just hasn't been getting as much money, and many of the highways are still at 1960s to 1980s standards with 10-11 foot lanes, soft narrow shoulders sloping into a nearby bar ditch. I'll sometimes go a few miles out of my way up into Kansas to take US-166 from one place in northern Oklahoma to another, rather than use the northernmost Oklahoma highway (in this case, a state highway with even lower standards).