Be sure to visit www.santafetrail.org/geocaching to learn about the PASSPORT ACTIVITY to accompany this Geo Tour. All containers on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Geo Tour are military ammunition canisters with an identifying Santa Fe Trail Association yellow sticker on the top of the box, under the handle and the dark green geocaching.com ID is on the side of the boxes with the information that provides coordinates, who set the cache and who to contact for information. Each cache contains a logbook to sign, a variety of items that provide information about the Santa Fe Trail as well as swag items. If you are participating in the Passport activity, the code word is located on the inside of the box, on the top of the lid and is clearly identified as Code Word. Permission to set caches has been obtained. We ask that all cachers please respect all property at the sites where our caches are set.
Finney County Point of Rocks is one of at least four similarly named sites along the Santa Fe Trail network that aided travelers in their navigation of the road. The trail passed to the immediate south of this formation and became the foundation for modern-day Mansfield Road; the ATSF (now BNSF) Railroad, generally following the Mountain Route of the trail throughout western Kansas, is located between Mansfield Road and Point of Rocks. Because of its navigational role, Finney County Point of Rocks is nationally significant as a historic resource of the Santa Fe Trail for its association with the transportation and commerce along the trail from 1821 to 1870. The natural feature retains a good degree of integrity in terms of location, setting, feeling, and association required for registration.
Listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, 7/17/2013.
Near this location in 1867, Sister Mary Alphonsa Thompson died enroute to Santa Fe accompanied by four other nuns and Bishop Jean Lamy.