Five ladies from the Kettle Queens of Moundridge met June 17.
They traveled to Mushroom Rock State Park.
It’s the smallest state park in Kansas, located in the Smoky Hills of Ellsworth County, about five miles north of Kanopolis Reservoir and State Park.
It’s approximately five acres in size, but it is one of the most unique state parks in Kansas.
It contains rock formations in the shape of mushrooms that are concretions made of cemented calcium carbonate. The formations are the remains of beach sands and sediments of the Cretaceous Period, which took place 144 to 66 million years ago.
In 1965, it was officially presented to the state and dedicated as a state park. It’s one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas Geography as identified by the Kansas Sampler Foundation in Inman.
Then we toured Rock City near Minneapolis.
It’s the largest concentration of huge sandstone formations in the world.
Rock City is a special place overlooking the peaceful Solomon River Valley and lying at the feet of the beautiful Smoky Hills.
Some of the rocks at Rock City are as high as 14 feet tall in an area about the size of two football fields.
It’s also one of the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s Eight Wonders of Kansas Geography.
— Dorothy Otte, Kettle Queens
