On Wednesday, our journey continued. We spent most of the day in far western Kansas before heading to Lindsborg, where we arrived a bit after 9pm.
Mount Sunflower, located just east of the Colorado border, is the highest point in Kansas, but a mountain it isn’t. Only barely higher than the surrounding prairie, it does serve a purpose for members of the Highpointers Club, whose members strive to visit the highest point in each state.
More rewarding was our visit to the chalk pyramids, officially known as Monument Rocks. Here we spent a couple of hours (baking in the heat!) taking photos, hiking around the rock formations, and searching for fossil and fossil remnants (the rocks are built upon layer after layer of limestone and fossilized sea life).
