Kansas family vacation guide:
The State of Kansas is a Midwestern State in the central region of the USA, an area often referred to as the 'American Heartland'. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south, and Colorado on the west.
Kansas has a lot to offer all visitors to the area and can be the perfect destination for your family vacation. Kansas’s history breathes with the western frontier and Old West traditions. Kansas remembers Wild Bill Hickok, George Custer’s 7th Calvary, and Buffalo Bill Cody. Hunting and fishing are popular activities in a number of places around Kansas. Miles of plains, legendary wheat fields and corn, spirit of Native Americans and cowboys all mixed in with modern metropolitan areas? That’s Kansas. You’ll find plenty of hiking and biking trails, lakes, and camping areas. To be precise the exact middle of the continental U.S. is found in Kansas.
Important cities and towns in Kansas:
Some of the most important and popular cities and towns in Kansas are: Derby, Dodge City, Emporia, Garden City, Hays, Hutchinson, Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Leawood, Lenexa, Liberal, Manhattan, Olathe, Overland Park, Prairie Village, Salina, Shawnee, Topeka and Wichita.
Accommodations:
Experience the very best in personal guest service and warm Kansas hospitality at most of the family friendly accommodations Kansas has to offer. Many of Kansas family hotels and resorts offer unique vacation accommodations, including family suites and kid suites, complimentary hot breakfast, family style dining and friendly service. Kansas hotels can be reasonably priced and comfortably furnished as you would expect of family hotels. Fortunately there are lots of family friendly hotels, resorts, inns and vacation rentals available in Kansas, all suited for your family vacation.
Attractions:
Lots of the attractions in Kansas are suited for children. Here is an overview of some of the best things to do in Kansas.
Kansas Amusement and Theme Parks:
Wild West World
Kansas waterparks and kids waterfun:
Tomahawk Ridge Aquatic Center
Zoos:
Emporia Zoo
Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure
Sedgewick County Zoo
Sunset Zoo
Topeka Zoo
Other attractions suited for you rfamily vacation:
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Cottonwood Falls
Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita
Boot Hill Museum, Dodge City
Oz Museum, Wamego
Botanica: The Wichita Gardens, Wichita
Z Bar/Spring Hill Ranch, Cottonwood Falls
Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Junction City
The Woodlands in Kansas City
Fort Scott National Cemetery
Old Congregational Church in Fort Scott
Cattle Feedlot Overlook in Dodge City area
Old Fort Bissell in Phillipsburg
Thomas County Courthouse
Goodnow House
Pawnee Indian Village Museum
1901 Limestone Jail in Haddam
Blaine Thomas Museum (rare calliopes) in Manhattan
Civil War Memorial Arch in Junction City
1878 Sage Inn & Stagecoach Station tour
Fort Leavenworth
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