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Northwest Kansas
Leave the interstate for natural history, agricultural heritage and High Plains landmarks in Hays, Colby and Goodland.
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Find your place
Northwest Kansas, a little closer.
Leave the interstate for natural history, agricultural heritage and High Plains landmarks in Hays, Colby and Goodland. The spaces between towns are part of the trip: allow for wind, weather and fuel stops, and check the local time when crossing into Sherman County.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
Three places to begin.
Choose a local stop, then find food and a place to stay.
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Your next good stop.
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Browse published places around Northwest Kansas. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Kansas photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Downtown Hays, Kansas.jpg — Haysksian. CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Thomas County Courthouse Colby Kansas 5-7-2014.jpg — Richard Bauer. CC BY 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- World's largest easel in Goodland, Kansas 5-20-2014.jpg — Ayleen Gaspar from Los Angeles. CC BY 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
Independent visitor sources; inclusion is not a paid placement or an endorsement by the source.
County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Kansas FIPS 20, all 105 counties. Simplified for display. Town markers show approximate centers, not attraction entrances or driving routes. The six region names follow Kansas Tourism; featured places are starting points, not an exhaustive inventory.