December 4, 2024
| Featured Waypoint: Pillsbury Crossing |
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Pillsbury Crossing | Photo Scott Bean | Text Keith Miller | Licensed to Sierra Club Kansas Chapter The Deep Creek Falls at Pillsbury Crossing Wildlife Area near Manhattan, Kansas, is capped by a thin resistant limestone bed. Limestones, ranging from a few feet to tens of feet thick, form resistant layers that cap waterfalls throughout the Flint Hills region. These falls are some of the most under-appreciated scenic locations in the Flint Hills. Some of the higher falls display the colorful banded terrestrial mud rocks that underly the capping limestones, otherwise hidden under the prairie grasses. |