Kansas
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About Kansas
Kansas is mostly part of the Great Plains and a state where you can still experience and enjoy the beauty of one of the four remaining untouched tallgrass prairies left in the world. Kansas today is a leading wheat-growing state, offering numerous opportunities for agri-tourism with your own country living experience at an operating ranch, grape harvesting at a vineyards, rodeo shows or county fairs. Alternatively the 24 state parks across Kansas offer primitive camping facilities with access to wildlife areas and trails for hiking, biking or horseback riding. Many parks host annual events such as concerts, festivals, and competitions.
Good to know
- Capital: Topeka
- Climate: The climate is continental, with cold winters with blizzards and hot summers with tornadoes
- Timezone: UTC -6
- No. of inhabitants: 2,735,502 (2004)
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Highlights
- Kansas History Center at Topeka
- Abilene the boyhood town of Eisenhower and home of the Presidential Library
- Front Street in Dodge City (re-created)
- Fort Scott and Fort Larned-National Historic Sites
- Fort Leavenworth with its large federal penitentiary
- Fort Riley
- Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center
- Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site
- Hollenberg Station State Historic Site
- Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
- Konza Prairie Natural Area near Manhattan
- Hiking in the rolling Flint Hills
- The huge wetlands of Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge
- Jefferson County and beautiful Perry Lake with great camping, hiking, boating or fishing
Getting Around
- If you are in a hurry takes one of the two Interstate highways: I-70 is a major east/west route with cities along this route like Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, Junction City, Salina, Hays, and Colby. I-35 is a major north/south route with cities along this route like Kansas City Ottawa, Emporia, El Dorado, and Wichita. Spur routes serve as connections between the two major routes. I-135, I-335, I-435, I-635, I-235 and I-470. Call 511 for road conditions, detours and weather conditions.
- If not try the scenic byways
- Flint Hills Scenic Byway (Kansas 177) takes you through the vast tallgrass prairie and to places such as The Kaw Heritage Park
- The Wetlands and Wildlife Scenic Byway, a route through Barton, Reno, and Stafford counties in central Kansas, that takes you to the huge wetlands of North America's central flyway: Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, two of the largest wetland ecosystems in the world.
- Frontier Military Scenic Byway-a 270 km route tying Fort Leavenworth to the north with Fort Scott at the south
- Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway-a 67 km route through Barber and Comanche Counties past the ancient red shale and sandstone formations of the rugged Gypsum Hills
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