Central Kansas Tourism
Central Kansas Tourism - your Central Kansas Tourist Guide to Vacations, Attractions and Events
Chaplin Nature Center - Arkansas City, Kansas
Chaplin Nature Center - Arkansas City, Kansas
The Chaplin Nature Center is located on the inner edge of a bend in the Arkansas River There are more than five miles of walking trails provide easy access to bottomland timber & prairies, upland prairies, a spring-fed creek, and the Arkansas River.
Botanica, The Wichita Gardens - Wichita, Kansas
Botanica, The Wichita Gardens - Wichita, Kansas
Come and enjoy themed gardens such as the Shakespeare Garden, Rose and Wildflower Garden, and the new Sensory Garden. Visit Botanica’s Butterfly House and stroll among hundreds of free-flight butterflies. Come to Botanica throughout the summer and fall to learn more about these intriguing and beautiful creatures.
Abilene & Smokey Valley Railroad & Excursion Train - Flint Hills, Kansas
Abilene & Smokey Valley Railroad & Excursion Train - Flint Hills, Kansas
If you want to have an experience that will have you truly mezmorized by the beauty of the area you will want to take this excursion train on the 10 mile roundtrip ride from Abilene to Enterprise.
Alcove Spring - Flint Hills, Kansas
Alcove Spring - Flint Hills, Kansas
One of the favorite campsites of those traveling the Oregon Trail. Today the area is a park for hiking and enjoying the beautiful wildflowers, animals of the prairie and rolling hills.
Flint Hills - Flint Hills Kansas
Flint Hills - Flint Hills Kansas
If you’re looking for wide open prairie, unchanged by the years of progress, the Flint Hills area of Kansas is a place you’ll want to check out. Its beauty is unmatched, and some have even called this region magical. In 1906, an explorer, Zebulon Pike, named the area for the flint rock that could be seen through the tall grasses on the prairie. The hills stretch from near the Nebraska border down into Oklahoma.
A Different Type of Adventure - Kansas
You can have yourself quite a different type of adventure, starting out in Minneapolis, Kansas, and ending up in Wilson, Kansas, spending the day seeing different sites. There’s no other area where you’ll find sandstone concretions, the largest ball of twine, the center of the United States, and movie memorabilia.
Sedgwick County Zoo - Wichita Kansas
Discovery, Appreciation, and Respect. People of every age have always enjoyed a trip to the zoo, but the Sedgwick County Zoo has a goal not just to entertain its visitors, but also “to inspire discovery, appreciation, and respect for animals and nature.” If you want to not just see animals, but also learn about them, where they live, where they eat, how they breed, etc., this zoo is the perfect place.Maxwell Wildlife Refuge - McPherson County Kansas
Maxwell Wildlife Refuge - McPherson County Kansas
The Maxwell Wildlife Refuge in Kansas is the dream of John Gault Maxwell. It was his dream to make it so every person in Kansas could experience what it was like in the 1800’s with buffalo roaming free on the open prairie. John Maxwell set up his settlement in Battlehill Township, which is located in McPherson County.
Kansas State Fair - Hutchison Kansas
The Kansas State Fair - Hutchison Kansas
The Kansas State Fair is held in Hutchison, Kansas. This year, the dates for the fair are September 8-17, 2006. The history of the Kansas State Fair began early. It was first held in 1873, and has been growing ever since. The Kansas Star Fair has gone through a lot of changes, but one thing has remained certain.
Hopalong Cassidy Cowboy Museum - Wichita Kansas
This Museum is no longer in operation. Items were auctioned
off on August 24, 2007 The museum closed.
Hopalong Cassidy Cowboy Museum - Wichita Kansas
One of America’s most legendary cowboy heroes of all time, “the epitome of gallantry and fair play,” is Hopalong Cassidy. Thanks to the Hopalong Cassidy Cowboy Museum near Wichita, Kansas, those that remember this famous cowboy from their youth can spend some time reminiscing, and those that are too young to remember can learn all about what made Hopalong Cassidy such a legend for the past eighty years.
