Kansas Underground Salt Museum, Salt mine and museum in Hutchinson, United States
The Kansas Underground Salt Museum extends 650 feet below ground level, featuring 150 miles of excavated tunnels within a rock salt deposit.
The Hutchinson Salt Company started operations in 1923 as Carey Salt Company, employing room and pillar mining methods to extract salt deposits.
The museum, renamed Strataca in 2013, stands as the sole underground salt mine in the Western Hemisphere that welcomes public visitors.
Visitors descend via a double-deck elevator for 90 seconds before boarding trams that transport them through various educational mining exhibits.
The underground facility maintains a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit while storing millions of documents in its secured vault system.
Location: Kansas
Inception: May 1, 2007
Website: http://underkansas.org
GPS coordinates: 38.04370,-97.86760
Latest update: March 6, 2025 03:03
Kansas offers a land where ancient geological formations, historical sites, and cultural institutions come together. This collection features locations that testify to several million years of natural history and two centuries of human presence. Visitors can explore sandstone formations shaped by erosion at Mushroom Rock State Park, discover underground galleries of Strataca in an active salt mine in Hutchinson, or see the chalk cliffs of Monument Rocks rising 21 meters high in Gove County. The route also includes testimonies of the region's artistic and religious heritage. The Plains Guardian, a 13-meter steel sculpture, marks the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers in Wichita. The Victoria Stone Church showcases architecture from 1911 with its twin 43-meter towers. Eden Garden in Lucas features more than 150 concrete sculptures created between 1907 and 1928. The Cosmosphere houses the second-largest collection of space artifacts in the United States. These sites provide insight into the geological, historical, and cultural features of Kansas.
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