Kansas and prairies are almost synonymous.  You ride and ride and every once in a while you see a farmhouse, a barn, a small community but the landscape barely changes in the South West part of the state – prairies and rolling hills.  But then, there’s Monument Rocks.  Also known as the Kansas Pyramids
or Chalk Pyramids, they were the first natural wonder to be inducted as a National Natural Landmark in Kansas by the Department of Interior on October 31, 1968.  These outcroppings are on private land and the owner generously shares these wonders with the public.  The rocks are limestone formations formed 80 million years ago when the area was an inland sea and reach a height of 70 feet.

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