Pioneer Bluffs
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The Flint Hills Ranching Heritage Center at Pioneer Bluffs is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the ranching heritage of the Flint Hills.
Located on the historic 12-acre Rogler homestead in Chase County, KS, Pioneer Bluffs serves as a gateway to understanding, interpreting, and safeguarding the past, present, and future of ranching in the Flint Hills for everyone.
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695 Kansas 177
Matfield Green
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620.753.3484
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The historic barn and Rogler Ranch are available for weddings, meetings, and event rentals.
The Pioneer Bluffs Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Guided by core values of respecting the land, celebrating history, and strengthening community, Pioneer Bluffs addresses the environmental and social challenges of the future through experiential education.
We invite you to join us in building this place where rich history ignites the imagination with possibility for the future, a place with boundless skies and strong roots. Email us for information on what we’re working on this month. Pioneer Bluffs is open every day during daylight hours. Whether hiking the nature trail, having a picnic, bird watching, or exploring, visitors can enjoy a quiet refuge found at the historic ranch headquarters.
At Pioneer Bluffs, our grounds are free and open every day during daylight hours. The Nature Trail meanders through a wooded area along Crocker Creek, offering a natural space for hiking, exploring, bird watching, photography, and reflection. It builds on our self-guided tour, available on QR codes placed around the property, which provide information on the area’s cultural heritage and history. The tour is online at: tour.pioneerbluffs.org
There is a self-guided tour with history, background stories, and a bit of education about this and other ranches and the generations of ranchers who shaped the Flint Hills. The tour can be accessed using a smartphone on QR codes around the property. Music concerts, barn dances, rancher Prairie Talks, community celebrations, and school field trips happen throughout the year.
Check the latest event schedule at pioneerbluffs.org.
Pioneer Bluffs is the Center for Flint Hills Ranching Heritage, a nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve and share the ranching heritage of the Flint Hills.
A National Register Historic District, Pioneer Bluffs is on Flint Hills National Scenic Byway K-177, 14 miles south of Cottonwood Falls or 1 mile north of Matfield Green.