MotoRevRoute Scenic Staff Pick
Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway
Medicine Lodge to Coldwater
- Distance
- 42 mi
- Riding Time
- 43 min
- Climb
- 1,634 ft
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Surface
- Paved
- Saves
- 0
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Road Guide
- Best Season
- April through June and September through October.
- Fuel
- Fuel is in Medicine Lodge and Coldwater. There is little in between.
- Watch For
- Crosswinds, cattle and deer. Summer heat can be severe.
Weather Along the Route
Forecast at the hour you reach each point, from the riding time. Leave Departure empty to leave now. Forecast from Open-Meteo.
US 160 runs west from Medicine Lodge through the Gypsum Hills, a landscape of red buttes, mesas and canyons capped with white gypsum. It is very different from the flat wheat country most people picture in Kansas.
Stops
- StartMedicine Lodge
- FinishColdwater