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Flint Hills Tallgrass — A VIEW OF A PORTION OF KONZA PRAIRIE, 1,000 ACRES OF VIRGIN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NEAR MANHATTAN, KANSAS - NARA - 557189

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Let a prairie walk reset your sense of scale.

Flint Hills Tallgrass · A place with more to it than a quick stop.

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Photo: Patricia DuBose Duncan · Public domain ↗
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Why it is worth the stop

Flint Hills Tallgrass

Let a prairie walk reset your sense of scale. Use a scenic byway for a second perspective; ranchland is private unless access is posted.

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A mini storyboard

Your first day, without a rigid schedule.

Choose what sounds like you and check details before you set out.

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Begin with one place

Start at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and choose a trail or ranger program.

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Follow your curiosity

Use a scenic byway for a second perspective; ranchland is private unless access is posted.

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Check before traveling

Opening hours, tours, admission and access can change. Use the official link for the current details.

Current official guidance ↗Open the starting area in Google Maps ↗

Explore by instinct

Choose a place, see where it lives.

Tap a marker, filter the kind of day, or reveal the land beneath the route.

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Outline: U.S. Census Bureau. Optional shaded relief: USGS The National Map. Pins mark starting areas, not a driving route.

Keep your options open

Try a different chapter next.

Build a small-town lunch into a Flint Hills drive, or try a market stop around Hutchinson before your museum day.

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Kansas Cosmosphere — Hutchinson Community College - Kansas Cosmosphere Hutchinson Kansas 9-14-2014Next idea: Kansas Cosmosphere →Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

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