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 In Kansas visitors can explore the continent's largest remaining tallgrass prairie and discover sweeping horizons, find dinosaur bones and moon rocks, hunt and fish, find diverse art centers and museums, and comb out-of-the-way antique shops. Many motels and hotels are located near some of Kansas's favorite attractions and towns with storied pasts and genuine cowboy-style adventures – known in the 1870s as the "Cowboy Capital", visitors to Dodge City relive the heyday of the rip-snortin', gun-slingin' Wild West at the Boot Hill Museum on the original site of Boot Hill Cemetery and at the Gunfighters Wax Museum. There are some 20 first-class attractions in Topeka, the capital of Kansas, with everything from pioneer landscapes to historic sites but you won't want to miss the Kansas Museum of History, Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site, The Kansas State Capitol,the Topeka Harley-Davidson, with its vintage motorcycles, and for all the family, the Topeka Zoological Park. You can make yourself at home in Topeka at a variety of motels, hotels and charming bed and breakfasts With the wide-open skies as inspiration, Kansas has many top-rated aviation and aerospace attractions. One Kansas pilot who inspired generations of female fliers was Amelia Earhart. Her mysterious disappearance in 1927 still fascinates and intrigues aviation enthusiasts. Her grandparent’s home in Atchison, where she was born in 1897, is open as the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum. Cities around Kansas host annual festivals honoring aviation. The Wichita Aviation Festival, and hot air balloon rallies in Topeka, Emporia, Columbus, and Wichita are just a few of the ways the state celebrates its aviation heritage. The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita has an entire collection dedicated to Kansas’ contributions to flight. Wichita’s Exploration Place features a flight simulator. Wichita has affordable motels and hotels and luxury hotels and resorts. Generally the summers in Kansas are quite warm, the winters are mild, and the humidity is on the moderate side. KANSAS HOTELS ATTRACTIONS Abilene Visitors can take a 10-mile round-trip excursion on the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad or experience the history of the 34th president at the Eisenhower Center. ABILENE HOTELS Atchison Home to the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum. ATCHISON HOTELS Chanute Visitors can enjoy a "down on the farm" experience with Carlson’s Corn Maze and Wildflower Tours or experience photographing lions in Africa at the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum. CHANUTE HOTELS |
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Dodge City Known in the 1870s as the "Cowboy Capital", visitors relive the 1870s heyday of the rip-snortin', gun-slingin' Wild West at the Boot Hill Museum on the original site of Boot Hill Cemetery and at the Gunfighters Wax Museum. DODGE CITY HOTELS El Dorado To relive life as a pioneer of the 1850s, the overland wagon train celebrates pioneer days, chuck wagon meals, campfires and frontier music. ELDORADO HOTELS Flint Hills The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the heart of the Kansas Flint Hills offers a historic ranch headquarters area with buildings dating from the late 19th century; a nature trail, and acres of prairie lands. Fort Scott The Fort Scott National Historic Site, established in 1842 to keep peace and protect Kansans from bushwhackers, is now fully restored and features living history reenactments and guided tours. FORT SCOTT HOTELS Hays Bronze plaques mark a visitors’ route through Historic Downtown Hays. Attractions include the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, with its diorama recreating the area's prehistoric environment and life in the Great Plains, and the Fort Hays State Historic Site. HAYS HOTELS Hutchinson Attractions include the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian, with American space program artifacts, and Hedrick’s Exotic Animal Farm. The Kansas Splashdown indoor water park also has a space theme. HUTCINSON HOTELS Independence Attractions include a replica of Ingall’s 1870 Little House on the Prairie on the original site. INDEPENDENCE HOTELS Kansas City Kansas City's rich ethnic culture is celebrated through its many festivals, its monuments and its historic sites, including the Quindaro Ruins/Underground Railroad, the largest archaeological shrine to freedom, Strawberry Hill, an historic 1887 High Victorian mansion, ethnic museum and cultural center, and the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame. KANSAS CITY HOTELS Lawrence A city rich in historical attractions and outdoor recreational opportunities, Lawrence offers The Museum of Natural History (fossils and mounted animals in natural habitats), The Spencer Museum of Art, and The Museum of Anthropology. LAWRENCE HOTELS Leavenworth Attractions include the Carroll Mansion, the Carnegie Arts Center, the Frontier Army Museum which tells the story of Fort Leavenworth from the early 1800s, the Performing Arts Center and the First City Museum with its collection of early frontier memorabilia. The C.W. Parker Carousel Museum is one of only five carousel museums in the country. LEAVENWORTH HOTELS Liberal Attractions include the vintage aircraft at the Mid America Air Museum, the original model of the house in which Dorothy flew to Oz and the Coronado Museum at the Seward County Historical Museum, the fine arts of The Baker Arts Center and the International Pancake Day Hall of Fame. LIBERAL HOTELS Lindsborg Known as "Little Sweden USA", attractions include the Hemslöjd where visitors can watch craftsmen in a woodworking shop. Manhattan Three attractions that draw visitors are the historic Aggieville district, the Harold M. Freund American Museum of Baking, the only baking museum in the United States; and the diverse recreation of Tuttle State Park. MANHATTAN HOTELS Olathe A variety of activities and attractions for hot-air ballooning and sail boarding, two public lakes, the Ernie Miller Nature Center with forest and prairie trails, and the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm, the last surviving stagecoach stop on the Santa Fe Trail. OLATHE HOTELS Salina Attractions include the Historic Downtown District, the Central Kansas Flywheel Museum with its antique tractors, and the Wildlife Museum at the nearby Rolling Hills Zoo. SALINA HOTELS Shawnee There are original and replica buildings from the 1800s and 1900s in Old Shawnee Town. Nearby is the Wonderscope Children’s Museum and there are vintage, bluegrass and world instruments at the Mountain Music Shoppe. Topeka The capital of Kansas, Topeka features everything from pioneer landscapes to
Wamego The Oz Museum houses one of the largest private collections of Oz memorabilia in the world. The Wamego Museum complex consists of a museum, a one room school house, a rock jail and a log cabin, all near the Old Dutchmill.
Each area at the Botanica, The Wichita Gardens has its own theme, the Great Plains Nature Center showcases the wildlife and plant species of the Great Plains Region, and at the Mid-America All-Indian Center visitors take part in the rich heritage of the Native Peoples. At nearby Benton, the National Hopalong Cassidy Museum at the Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Supper provides a stunning display of hundreds of Hopalong Cassidy items. WICHITA HOTELS Photo courtesy Kansas Travel & Tourism |
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