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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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ATTRACTIONS

Sunset Viewing Area

We can thank Susie Haver, Kansas Explorer #27, for creating this public…

📍 Cloud County

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Super Dual Auroral Radar Network

This strange looking matrix of silver towers, poles, and wires is a…

📍 Hays, Ellis County

RECREATION

Syracuse Sand Dunes Park

With an abundance of sand dunes it's easy to make your own…

📍 Syracuse, Hamilton County

HIKING

Tallgrass Prairie Hiking Trails

Lace up your hiking boots and get ready to see a world…

📍 Strong City, Chase County

8 WONDERS OF KANSAS OVERALL

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

This National Park Service preserve protects and interprets the nationally significant—and vanishing—tallgrass…

📍 Strong City, Chase County

GEOGRAPHY

Terrain of Edwards County

The terrain around Kinsley fluctuates from sand dunes and High Plains vegetation…

📍 Kinsley, Edwards County

NATURAL LANDMARK

Teter Rock

This odd, man-made rock formation is in Greenwood County, but easier to…

📍 Cassoday, Butler County

GEOGRAPHY

Teter Rock

Around the late 1870s James Teter piled rocks as a marker to…

📍 Teterville, Greenwood County

GEOGRAPHY

Three Corners

From U.S. 36, 13 miles north on K-27, 4 miles west on…

📍 Cheyenne County

HIKING

Toadstrangler Trail

Old‑time farmers might have called a heavy rain a “toad strangler,” and…

📍 Rossville, Shawnee County

LAKE

Toronto Lake and Cross Timbers State…

The cross timbers of the Chautauqua Hills is an old, even ancient,…

📍 Toronto, Woodson County

MEMORIAL

Town Founder

As you cross the Solomon River on Mill (becomes K-106), notice the…

📍 Minneapolis, Ottawa County

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