Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway
Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway is a State Scenic Byway in Kansas. Within Kansas it covers roughly 40 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
This byway crosses the Gypsum Hills (or Red Hills) of south-central Kansas near Medicine Lodge, a surprising landscape of red-soil mesas, buttes, and canyons capped with white gypsum. The terrain looks more like the desert Southwest than the expected flat Kansas plains. Cattle ranches spread across the rugged country.
- red mesas & buttes
- white gypsum caps
- Medicine Lodge
- Southwest-like terrain
- cattle country
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.
Where to Stay along Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway
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