Outdoors
Flint Hills Tallgrass
Let a prairie walk reset your sense of scale.
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A WTDO FIELD GUIDE · KANSAS
Open sky, tallgrass, and discoveries beneath it.
Kansas has rolling Flint Hills, space science, frontier history and a short but memorable stretch of Route 66.
Find your storyExplore the map ↓Flint Hills, Cosmosphere, historic trail sites and Route 66.
Kansas has rolling Flint Hills, space science, frontier history and a short but memorable stretch of Route 66.
Find your reason to go
6 ways into Kansas.
Choose a scene. The map and guide follow your curiosity.
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Outdoors
Flint Hills Tallgrass
Let a prairie walk reset your sense of scale.
Start at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and choose a trail or ranger program.
Go deeper →Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domain ↗Photo credits for every scene
- Flint Hills Tallgrass · Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domain ↗
- Kansas Cosmosphere · Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
- Kansas Route 66 · Photo: Xnatedawgx · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
- Fort Larned & the Santa Fe Trail · Photo: National Trails Office (US National Park Service) · Public domain ↗
- Wichita Aviation & Art · Photo: TiptopCookie401 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
- Eisenhower’s Abilene · Photo: The U.S. National Archives · Public domain ↗
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Outline: U.S. Census Bureau. Optional shaded relief: USGS The National Map. Pins mark starting areas, not a driving route.
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Make space for the taste and the backstory.
Build a small-town lunch into a Flint Hills drive, or try a market stop around Hutchinson before your museum day.
Explore local food ↗Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve protects a remnant of a once widespread North American ecosystem and interprets people who have lived and worked there.
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Route 66 starts in Illinois and touches Kansas.
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