Fort Scott National Historic Site
National Historic Site · KS
Promises made and broken! Who deserves to be free? The fight for freedom! Soldiers fighting settlers! Each of these stories is a link in the chain of events that encircled Fort Scott from 1842-1873. All of the site's structures, its parade ground, and its tallgrass prairie bear witness to this era when the country was forged from a young republic into a united transcontinental nation.
- NPS site
- nps.gov/fosc
- Location
- Fort Scott National Historic Site (37.844, -94.704)
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Passport stamp locations
- Visitor Center
Hours
Fort Scott National Historic Sitetoday: Sunrise to Sunset
- Sat Oct 3Sunrise to Sunset
- Sun Oct 4Sunrise to Sunset
- Mon Oct 5Sunrise to Sunset
- Tue Oct 6Sunrise to Sunset
- Wed Oct 7Sunrise to Sunset
- Thu Oct 8Sunrise to Sunset
- Fri Oct 9Sunrise to Sunset
Park Visitor Center and historic building hours listed under 'Visitor Centers.' Visitors may walk the park grounds, walkways, and parking lot from ½ hour before sunrise until ½ hour after sunset, except during periods of snow, ice, or other inclement weather conditions that make the grounds unsafe.
Hours are retrieved from the National Park Service and can change without notice — check the official site before you go.
Visitor centers
1
- Visitor Centertoday: 8:30AM - 4:30PMDirections
Self-guided tours
2
Dragoon Barracks Tour10–20 minutes · 7 stops
The Dragoon Barracks at Fort Scott National Historic Site is currently closed to the public. However, you can still learn more about and view the rooms in the building by taking this tour. The directions between stops are for normal operations. Each room of the Dragoon Barracks provided the soldier with necessities that enabled him to do his duty.
Self Guided Audio Tour12–15 minutes · 12 stops
See the fort on your own using this audio tour. Each audio segment lasts about a minute for a total of 12 minutes audio all together.
Entrance fees
No entrance fee.