Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum, Open-air museum and roadside attraction in Meade, US.

The Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum in Meade, Kansas, comprises a wood-frame Victorian cottage, a two-story barn with a museum on its upper floor, and a 96-foot tunnel linking the two. The tunnel, 32 inches wide and 80 inches high, runs from a closet beneath the house stairwell to the barn. Visitors enter through the barn and reach the four-room house via the tunnel.

Eva Dalton, sister of the Dalton brothers, married John N. Whipple in Meade on October 25, 1887; Whipple bought the house and property for $400 but lost it at a sheriff's sale on November 19, 1892. The next occupants, the Marshall family, found a tunnel running from a closet under the stairwell to the barn. The WPA and NYA restored the site in 1941, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2015.

The site is tied to the Dalton family, a group of outlaws from the late 1800s whose story remains part of the region's identity today. Visitors can understand how this criminal past has shaped local narratives and the way people remember their frontier heritage.

Visitors enter through the barn, where the museum occupies the second floor, then pass through the tunnel to reach the four-room Whipple house. The tunnel measures 96 feet long, only 32 inches wide and 80 inches high, so tall or broad visitors should check the passage before entering. The original front door and stoop are intact but no longer serve as the entrance.

The tunnel was found by the Marshall family, who moved in after John Whipple lost the property at a sheriff's sale on November 19, 1892. Their daughter, Mrs. Roy Talbott, recalled strangers entering through the stairwell closet after leaving horses in the barn. The entrance was later sealed and plastered over.