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IOWA SAC AND FOX signage recognize the area’s history Lawrence invites visitors to stroll, native prairieland. Walk on “the wild General who led Allied Forces in Washington INDIAN RESERVATION PONY EXP and Native American tribes. dine, and shop in its scenic down - side” at the Sunset Zoo. The Wild - Europe during World War II. RESS Marysville town area. Attractions include the wood Outdoor Adventure Park offers KICKAPOO Kansas City, KS is home to the Salina – Rolling Hills Zoo is home 70 INDIAN RESERVATION exhibits and documents at the Dole 7 thrilling zip-lines. Tuttle Creek 77 M 35 IS SO O U Schlitterbahn Waterpark Kansas to 41 8 animals and 118 species, and R R Institute of Politics, the Booth Family Lake provides great outdoor adven - I E R G IV O E KANSAS N POTAWATOMI R T City , Kansas Speedway and the 2017 their wild-life museum creates a 35 RA INDIAN RESERVATION Hall of Athletics, the University of tures and is located 5 miles north IL Manhattan 24 KANSAS CITY U.S. Open Cup Champs Sporting Kansas’ Natural History Museum, of Manhattan on US Highway 24. “trip around the world” through KANSAS 18 RIV ER Kansas City at Children's Mercy lifelike dioramas and animatronic Junction City 70 the Lawrence Art Center, and the Lawrence 70 TOPEKA Shawnee Salina 70 Oveverland Park Park. The Village West area boasts Lied Performing Arts Center as well Marysville – A bronze statue figures. The Smoky Hill Museum Abilene MUSEUM AT PRAIRIEFIRE Olathe 400 acres of shopping. Find big bar - as the Watkins Community Museum of a hard-riding Pony Express rider, chronicles the history of this region

177 35 gains at Legends Outlets Kansas of History. plus life-style interactive murals with both permanent and changing City, Cabela’s and Nebraska Furni - and barn-quilt blocks depicting the exhibitions. Don’t miss their children’s ture Mart. History comes alive at the Topeka – Visitors won’t want to Pony Express, all located in the area –The Curiosity Shop –new in 135 SANTA FE TRAIL Emporia Quindaro Overlook, Old Quindaro miss Kansas historic State Capitol Marysville Park. The original Pony 2017! Sculpture Tour Salina is a 35 KANSAS Museum, John Brown Statue and and at the Kansas History Museum. Express Station No. 1, Barn and downtown outdoor exhibition of Newton the Underground Railroad Museum. The Brown vs. Board of Education Museum plus the Korster House artwork, on loan from across the All are a part of the Freedom’s National Historic Site features ex - Museum and the 11-mile Marshall country, which changes each May. From 1803 to 1806 Lewis & Clark Frontier National Heritage Area. hibits on the national Civil Rights County Con nection are all popular WICHITA explored A mer ica the Beautiful. story and the Supreme Court ruling. visitor destinations as well as the Wichita – 23 acres of structures, This year, you can too. Olathe – Western history comes Hollenberg Pony Express Station streets and stories make up Old alive at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop Manhattan – Manhattan is northwest of Marysville on the Cow-town Museum, bringing to HIT THE TRAIL TO ADVENTURE! and Farm Historic Site in Olathe. home to Kansas State University. Little Blue River. life the wild and wooly days when Ride in a stage coach and see a work - Adjacent to the university you’ll find Wichita hosted Texas cowboys Go to: LCGreatRivers.org ing 19th century farm complete with Aggieville, a 125-year old shopping Washington – Pony Express coming up the Chisholm Trail. crops, livestock and fun. district offering unique eateries, bars and Oregon Trail rooms are featured and restaurants. Historic downtown at the County Historical Museum. Emporia – Visitors can tour Lawrence is home of the Uni - Manhattan features the Flint Hills nearby Tallgrass Prairie National Kansas City, Kansas – Lewis journey against the rising currents ver sity of Kansas and the Haskell Discovery Center with fascinating Abilene remembers Wild Bill Preserve, Red Rocks Historic Site & Clark Park at Kaw Point, an in - and a strong headwind on June 26, Indian Nations University. The interactive exhibits for visitors of all Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, the and the Flint Hills National Wildlife spiring historic site at the conflu - 1804. Today, the park offers walking mounted remains of the cavalry ages. The Riley County Historical “baddest” outlaws in all the west Refuge adjacent to John Redmond ence of the Kansas and Missouri and biking trails, an education horse Comanche, who was the lone Museum showcases the area’s pioneer and all the wild days in Old Abilene Reservoir north and south of Rivers, is where Lewis & Clark and pavilion, open-air encampment survivor of the Battle of the Little heritage. The Konza Prairie Biologi - Town. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Emporia for examples of the bounty the Corps of Discovery camped and theater and outstanding views of Bighorn is on display at the University cal Station features buffalo in their Presidential Library, Museum and and beauty of the Great Plains. recovered after their exhausting downtown Kansas City. Murals and of Kansas’ Natural History Museum. Boyhood Home remembers the

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