Lyons, Kansas Underground salt mine

From Lyons, Kansas June 26, 2009

We are camped in Lyons City Park where they offer free camping with electricity. There is a water source but not at each site. There is also a central dump. What we needed when here was electricity and they had that at each site. We like the campground and will return.

Lyons, Kansas Underground salt mine

We spotted this salt mine in Lyons, Kansas where we are camped in their FREE city park campground. Note the sign showing the current temperature. Since we were doing salt mines today (we did the Underground Salt Mine Tour in Hutchison, Kansas this morning) we decided to drive down and inspect the visible mine structures.

This salt mine was bagging salt and hauling it off with trucks at the Lyons, Kansas Underground salt mine

This truck was hauling pallets of salt out of the plant.

Above ground buildings & machinery servicing the Lyons, Kansas underground salt mine

This is the head of the mine shaft where all the salt is brought to the surface.

Salt Storage building for the Lyons, Kansas underground salt mine

This is one of their storage buildings. Note that the slope on this building is at the same angle that dry salt will assume when the conveyor belt dumps it into the building.

Unfortunately this mine did not have a tour.

Here are some of our other Kansas Travel Adventures:

Flint Hills Scenic Byway, & Council Grove ** Kansas Wheat fields ** Salt mine tour in Hutchison-Over 600' underground

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills of Kansas ** Santa Fe Trail through south-central Kansas

The world's bread basket ** Lyons, Kansas Underground Salt mine ** Post Rock Fences of Kansas

Grain Elevators of Kansas ** Limestone Buildings of Kansas ** Kansas Grazing land ** Quintessential Kansas

Grain Transporting Equipment ** Wilson & Russell Kansas ** Wilson Reservoir ** Kansas ** Coffeyville

Harvesting Grain in Kansas ** Kansas Pontoon Boat "Happy Hooker" ** Kansas Countryside ** Kansas Soy Beans

Typical Kansas ** Old Native Limestone Churches of the open plains ** Brown Mansion in Coffeyville, Kansas

Little House on the Prairie Historic Site near Coffeyville, Kansas ** Soy Bean Harvest in southeast Kansas

Fall in Coffeyville, Kansas ** Southeast Kansas ** Coffeyville, Kansas Industry ** Dalton Gang