You are traveling in the path of countless men, women, and children who passed this very home in the 1860s! When you turned into the parking lot, you pulled off the Westport Route of the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails. And now, you're approaching the only stagecoach stop open to the public on the Santa Fe Trail.

The Westport Route was one of several roads leading from Westport, Independence, and other Missouri towns; the famous "jumping off" points for the trip west. Travelers headed for Santa Fe, Oregon, and California used the Westport and other routes to cross what is today, the Kansas City metro area. Several miles south of here, at the Lone Elm campground (now a park which is also managed by the city of Olathe) these routes converged. For the next few miles, a single, main road carried all travelers heading west before splitting in two: with the Santa Fe Trail leading southwest, and the Oregon/California Trail, heading northwest.

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