Pictures from Wanderlusts Past... We were the ones driving 2 hours off our planned beaten path to climb Kansas. We were the ones wishing we'd brought a metal detector, sure that, if the legends of Coronado Heights are true, we'd be the ones to find out, but just as pleased to eat our PBJ's castle adjacent. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, who visited central Kansas in 1541, looking for the Native American community of Quivira, where he was told "trees hung with golden bells and ... pots and pans were beaten gold." Poor guy didn't find his golden city, but professors have found chain-mail and Spanish coins on the site. The parks department added the castle, out of the Dakota Limestone, allowing the Yucca to grow wildly, and naming the peak for the gold-digger of old.
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