Sand Creek

Partial federal government shutdown has forced some parks and sites to close due to safety concerns.

The Sand Creek Massacre speakers series continues this week with a presentation by LaDonna Brown.

The staff of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site cordially invites the community to attend our Holiday Open House on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm at the park administration office located at 910 Wansted Street, Eads. 

Karl Zimmermann, Operations Manager of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site (NHS), was awarded the Trish Patterson Student Conservation Association Award for Natural Resource Management in a Small Park during a public ceremony, which took place at the Department of the Interior Stewart Lee Udall Main Interior Building, Washington, DC.

The 20th Annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run begins at 7:00 a.m. Thursday, November 22, 2018, at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The run/walk is an annual event sponsored by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes (Oklahoma) to honor the victims and survivors of the Sand Creek Massacre and for healing of ancestral homelands. This year's event will mark the 154th year since the Sand Creek Massacre.  

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site will commemorate the 154th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre with a pair of free public programs November 29, 2018. 

Join the staff of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in commemoration of the Memorial Day Holiday with a free guided walk Saturday, May 26, at 10:00 a.m. The Sand Creek Massacre is a seminal event in American Indian history, a brutal massacre that took 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho lives in a surprise attack by Colorado (US) Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War. Join Park Guide John Launius for this free guided tour, which discusses one of this nation's most profound tragedies.