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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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SCENIC DRIVE

Potato Hill Scenic Back Road

For a dare-to-do-dirt back-road drive, from Burr Oak in Oak Hill, ½…

📍 Clay County

HISTORY

Pottawatomie County

Named for the Potawatomis who settled on a government reservation around 1850…

📍 Pottawatomie County

OBSERVATORY

Powell Observatory

Here's your chance to take a long look through one of the…

📍 Louisburg, Miami County

BIKE HIKE TRAIL

Prairie Spirit Trail in Anderson County

A pioneer trail in its own right and following one of the…

📍 Anderson County

RAIL TRAIL

Prairie Spirit Trail in Ottawa

The most southern end of this rail trail is behind the Old…

📍 Ottawa, Franklin County

KANSAS SCENIC BYWAY

Prairie Trail Scenic Byway

This 18-mile drive from Wilson to Lucas, passing Wilson Lake, delivers sweeping…

📍 Ellsworth County

KANSAS SCENIC BYWAY

Prairie Trail Scenic Byway

Canton is the southeast end of this 80-mile byway that ends at…

📍 Canton, McPherson County

ART

PrairyArt Path

Bill McBride creates thought-provoking and imaginative sculptures using sticks, stones, bones, wire,…

📍 Matfield Green, Chase County

NATURE CENTER

Pratt Education Center and Museum

Tall cottonwoods surround the Pratt Education Center that Professor Lewis L. Dyche…

📍 Pratt, Pratt County

CEMETERY

Prospect Hill Cemetery

Once you arrive at the cemetery, proceed to the back. There the…

📍 Blue Rapids, Marshall County

CURIOSITY

Quinter

With an elevation of 2,665, Quinter is the half-mile-high city.

📍 Quinter, Gove County

8 WONDERS OF KANSAS OVERALL

Quivira National Wildlife Refuge

It's the sheer number of migrating birds that make this wildlife haven,…

📍 Around the county, Stafford County

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