Denver to Topeka road trip: Distance, drive time & best stops
The best stops on the Denver to Topeka drive are the Prairie Museum, Mushroom Rock State Park and the Eisenhower Presidential Library. By car, the distance from Denver to Topeka is 542 miles, with a 7h48m driving time.
Planning a Denver to Topeka road trip
A Denver to Topeka road trip takes you between the capital cities of Colorado and Kansas.
Top Denver experiences include Rocky Mountain National Park day tours, downtown Denver food tours and chilling guided ghost walks around the Cheeseman Park cemetery.
The main Topeka attractions are the Kansas State Capitol Building and the Evel Knievel Museum. Topeka experiences include guided history walking tours and scavenger hunts.
Denver to Topeka distance and driving time
By car, the distance from Denver to Topeka is 542 miles. That makes for a driving time of around seven hours and 48 minutes. The quickest route is along the I-70.
The best road trip stops between Denver and Topeka are all in Kansas. Try the Prairie Museum, Mushroom Rock State Park and the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
The Prairie Museum
The collection at the Prairie Museum of Art and History in Colby, Kansas, is eclectic but not especially gripping. You can expect dolls, ceramics, furniture and plenty of local history.
Where the museum comes into its own is the outdoor section, where a succession of old buildings have been brought together. The two main highlights are the cute little church and the absolutely enormous barn, which is proudly billed as the biggest barn in Kansas.
Mushroom Rock State Park
A short detour to the south between Salina and Kanopolis, Mushroom Rock State Park is small but pleasingly weird
A series of rock formations sprout out the ground with narrow bases and bigger, bulging tops. They look like mushrooms, and are the remains of beaches from the Cretaceous period.
These mushroom rocks have long been a meeting place for Native American people.
Dwight D Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
The small town of Abilene, Kansas, gave America one of its great generals and presidents. Dwight D Eisenhower’s boyhood home is now part of his Presidential Library and Museum.
As with most of these presidential libraries, the museum section doesn’t just cover the former president’s life and work – it acts as a snapshot of the historic period he lived through.
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