Start from 16 curated places around Dodge City, KS, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Firesides Grill
An upscale-casual grill at the Boot Hill Casino plating steaks, sandwiches and comfort favorites, widely rated one of the town's best values. It is the reliable sit-down dinner with a step up in setting. Hearty and dependable.
Beatty and Kelley Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor
A homestyle restaurant and ice-cream parlor inside the Boot Hill Museum, serving hearty American plates and hand-dipped ice cream in an Old West setting. It is the easy, themed lunch stop right where the gunfights happen. Wholesome and fun.
Trails & outdoors
Wright Park
A large, leafy city park with shaded paths, a lagoon and a small free zoo, the everyday green space for a walk or a family afternoon. It is the convenient in-town option, flat and easy. A welcome patch of shade on the open plains.
Long Branch Lagoon
A restored wetland and lagoon on the edge of town with paths and overlooks, good for an easy walk and birdwatching along the Arkansas River bottom. It is the quiet natural counterpoint to the Old West bustle. Flat, calm and uncrowded.
Things to do
Boot Hill Casino & Resort
The state's casino on the edge of Dodge City, dressed in Old West elegance with hundreds of gaming machines, dining and live entertainment. It is the town's main after-dark draw and event venue. The modern counterpoint to the frontier theme downtown.
Gunfighters Wax Museum
A small wax museum near Boot Hill putting visitors face to face with the legends of the frontier, from Wyatt Earp to Sitting Bull and Jesse James. It is a charmingly old-school stop that leans into the town's lawmen-and-outlaws lore. Quick, quirky and fun with kids.
Landmarks & sights
Boot Hill Museum
A re-creation of 1870s Front Street on the original Boot Hill site, with a saloon, general store, period buildings and daily gunfight reenactments that bring the wildest cow town in the West back to life. It is unabashed Old West theater and the centerpiece of any Dodge City visit. Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson territory, played for all it is worth.
Santa Fe Trail Remains
Genuine wagon ruts of the old Santa Fe Trail, still scored into the prairie just west of town a century and a half after the wagons rolled through. Standing at the swales, you can trace the route that built Dodge City. A quiet, powerful contrast to the staged Old West downtown.