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  • 470. Side Trip - Directions to Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site (MR)

    SIDE TRIP - If you are near Lamar, Stop 469, you can visit Sand Creek.

    Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Park Service site in Kiowa County, Colorado. To visit the site, follow Colorado State Hwy 96 east of Hwy 287 near Eads, or west o_ Hwy 385 at Sheridan Lake. Near Chivington, turn north onto County Road (CR) 54/Chief White Antelope Way or at Brandon, turn north onto CR 59. Follow these roads to their intersections with CR W. The park entrance is along CR W a mile east (right) of CR 54 or several miles west (left) of CR 59. 

    Address:

    910 Wansped

    Eads, Colorado 81036

    Phone:

    (714) 729-3003

    For more information:

    Park directions