Larned was named for the nearby military base that was established to protect traffic on the Santa Fe Trail. So it seemed appropriate for us to spend a long time at Fort Larned finding all the things so the kids could get their National Park Service Junior Ranger badges.
Larned itself is a fair-size town with a baseball diamond, nice homes, a swimming pool with a slide, and a park with a train going around it. There are some neat old brick streets and some neighborhoods on hillsides. The downtown has a fair number of businesses, but also empty store fronts. There's a mural painted on one of the buildings, but the paint is aging and peeling.
Some other things we noticed in town:
- Theaters
- Hardware store
- Post office
- Library
- Health department
- Courthouse
- Lots of businesses and churches
- Fairgrounds
- Golf course
- Airport on the edge of town
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