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Feel at home in a beautiful log bed and breakfast located in the Flint Hills with horseback riding and buggy rides. |
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Canoe landing that provides public access to the Kansas River. |
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| A restaurant with specialty buffalo steaks and burgers. Live weekend entertainment also makes this a great place to stop! |
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Carnahan Park campground is the most primitive of the seven campgrounds located around Tuttle Creek Lake. |
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Beautiful drive with stunning views of the Kansas Flint Hills. |
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The 9-hole "Cool Springs" course at the Cool Springs Golf Course facility in Onaga, Kansas features 3,005 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 36. Designed by Martin Johnson, Jr., the Cool Springs golf course opened in 2000. Tawni Myers manages the course as the General Manager. |
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The Doughboy Memorial is a beautiful bronze statue memorial to WWI veterans. |
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Located in the 1885 William Boyd building, the Inn is upstairs over a former blacksmith shop. |
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Second largest hand-dug well. Built in 1914 by 40 men. |
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Oldest 1857 stone structure in the county where Pottawatomie Indians received government payments. From 1847 to about 1857, St. Marys was the "Cape Canaveral" of western migration along this leg of the Oregon-California Trail. Once a person left St. Marys in those years - there was not another settlement until one reached Salt Lake, the California Gold Fields or the Willamette Valley in Oregon Territory, journeys of thousands of miles. The only intervening vestiges of "civilization" were two small sparsely manned army posts at Fort Kearney and Fort Laramie. |
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Jeffrey Energy Center has 7,000 acres available for public use. People can hunt, fish, and watch wildlife in two designated wildlife management areas (WMAs). WMA #1 is outside the actual energy plant grounds. WMA #2 can only be accessed by entering through the Center's main gate. Kiosks outside the energy center have brochures available for you to take and there are directional signs to assist you. The wildlife areas display some spectacular prairie flowers and attract many species of birds throughout the seasons. Along with the prairie there are two lakes, as well as several ponds and streams to explore. |
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| Educational presentation of bison history, characteristics and care. The Lazy Heart D herds of Bison and Beefmaster cattle graze the cool and warm season grasses of the glaciated region of the Flint Hills. This permits the natural grazing and roaming behaviors that result in a healthy, content animal and a good natural product for you and your family. No hormones or antibiotics are given our animals. Our grass finished bison is available in traditional cuts of meat. Our grass finished beef is available in halves or split halves. Visitors are welcome. |
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An opportunity for peace and quiet among the beautiful Flint Hills. Totally secluded. Provides fishing, hunting for deer, quail, and turkey, and walking trails. Open year round. |
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Potawatomi and French ancestry who was an early resident. Vieux, his wife, and 7 children built a toll bridge that took covered wagons over the Vermillion River. A grave site stands atop the hill near the homestead. Just a few hundred feet farther west is the National Historic Oregon Trail Cholera Cemetery, where a number of people who died during the Oregon Trail days are buried. |
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A lovingly restored steeple of Mariadahl Lutheran church. |
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The Military Trail Road runs from Wamego to Manhattan, with St. George near the center. The Military Trail Road, overlooking the Kansas River, runs a mile or so south of Highway 24. |
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| The Olsburg Marsh is a major migratory waterfowl and songbird nesting area. The area around Olsburg is among the most beautiful in Kansas! It includes the northern Flint Hills, the Blue River Valley, and the upper end of Tuttle Creek Reservoir. |
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The Onaga Museum complex exhibits local historical items in its two main museum buildings and on its grounds you will see a Union Pacific caboose, a furnished log cabin and a one-room schoolhouse. |
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This park was developed with the help of the Western Resources Green Team. It is actually part of the grounds associated with the Jeffrey Energy Center. If you take the Sea of Grass trail up to the top of the ridge, you will have a spectacular 360 degree panorama which includes the power plant and its principal cooling lake to the north. To the south, stretching from one horizon to the other, is the Kaw River valley, which marks the southerly edge of the great Pleistocene glaciers. This is a great spot to scan for red-tailed hawks, northern harriers and turkey vultures. The tallgrass prairie along this trail has an abundance of wildflowers. Look for rose verbena, New Jersey tea and green milkweed in May and Purple Coneflower in summer. |
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Spacious, tranquil setting on an Oregon Trail emigrant campground. |
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Features one of the largest privately owned collections of Oz memorabilia in the world. From the earliest books of Oz creator, L. Frank Baum to today's collectibles that can be purchased in Auntie Em's Gift Shop, visitors both young and young at heart will treasure a visit to the Oz Museum. |
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| 1873 stone house. Nature, writing, and creativity workshops, nature walks, story-telling meeting place, floral and fauna trail for Audubon of Kansas. |
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The "Round Barn" was built on the fairgrounds in 1921 as a livestock sales and exhibit barn. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
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State Fishing Lake No. 2.is located about four miles northeast of Manhattan. Pottawatomie Lake #2 is a scenic lake of about 75 acres that holds nice populations of crappie, largemouth bass and bluegill. The lake also produces impressive strings of channel catfish and holds some very nice walleyes. |
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This area provides fishing, hunting, camping and wildlife viewing opportunities. Located in the northern edge of the Flint Hills, this area provides a wide variety of habitats, from native grassland to oak/hardwood forest. Species found on the area include bobwhite quail, fox squirrels and cotton-tail rabbits. Trapping is also allowed on the area. |
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A state park with camping, picnic shelters, hiking and horse trails and more. |
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Wagon trains journeying from Independence usually spent the first or second night at Lone Elm campground in Johnson County. A few miles to the west there was an important junction: One road turned southwest toward Santa Fe, the other went northwest toward Oregon. Parties bound for the Northwest found that the steep banks of the Wakarusa and Vermillion Rivers made crossing difficult. At Topeka there were two ferries across the Kansas River, one operated by the Pappan brothers near present-day downtown Topeka, the other by Sidney Smith west of the city. At the Red Vermillion crossing in Pottawatomie County, Louis Vieux built a toll bridge. Charging one dollar per wagon he made as much as $300 in a day. |
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| Campground with daily, weekly, and monthly RV rates. |
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The Rock Creek Valley Historical Society Museum in Westmoreland houses many historical items from the early settlement of this area along with period furnishing in the old stone church and log cabin that make up the museum complex. Free Admission, contributions welcomed. Tuesday through Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm, or by appointment. |
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A major hiking-biking trail route has been mapped along rural gravel and dirt roads around Olsburg. "The Rolander Express Trail" is 28.6 miles long, virtually all lying along little traveled rural roads. |
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Site of emigrant campground 150 years ago. Walking trail, burial site, and more. |
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Motel with theme rooms that have jacuzzi tubs and entertainment packages available. |
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St. Marys Academy and College, located in St. Marys, Kansas, is owned and operated by the Society of St. Pius X, an international priestly society founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to maintain the traditional Catholic priesthood and all the works related to it. The property is located on 465 rolling acres, 25 miles west of Topeka, the state capitol, and 75 miles west of Kansas City. |
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A very scenic, nine-hole course located on the hills overlooking the Kansas River valley. |
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Newly constructed in 2003. Free Continental Breakfast Free High Speed Internet Pets Allowed |
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The Columbian Theatre, Museum & Art Center is the center of cultural activity in the Wamego area. It has been elegantly restored for exhibits, performances and special events. The Columbian Theatre was built in the late 1890s by businessman J. C. Rogers to house artifacts he retrieved from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition at Chicago. |
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| Tuttle Creek Reservoir is the key unit in the system of flood control projects within the Kansas River Basin and is the second largest lake in Kansas. The Wildlife Area contains approximately 65% permanent vegetation (trees and grasses) with the remaining 35% in cropland, marshes and other food plots. There are three marshes that can be pumped totaling 365 acres and three marshes dependant on runoff totaling 115 acres. Good numbers of white-tail deer and turkeys can be found on the area. Other species to hunt include pheasant, bobwhite quail, fox squirrel, cottontail rabbit and migrating waterfowl. |
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| Lovingly restored 19th century home, comfortably furnished with European antiques. Come on in and relax as we treat you to classic elegance, warm hospitality and excellent value in a small town setting. Nestled in the midwestern community of Wamego, Kansas, the Victory Inn is a study in Victorian Splendor. Its columned porch invites you into a warm home-style atmosphere where as our guest you are treated to the best of the golden age of Victorian style settings as well as the modern conveniences of today. Let Tony and Tracy treat you to a wonderful stay! |
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| The Wamego Country Club golf course was originally designed by famed architect Chick Trout and opened as a nine-hole course in 1920. The new nine-holes added to the course were designed by local architect Eric Langvardt. The par 70, 18-hole golf course nestled among the rolling hills of Wamego, Kansas was first opened in 1920 as a nine-hole course. Member of the Kansas Golf Association. |
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Kansas' only authentic stone Dutch Mill towers over beautiful City Park, the perfect place for picnicking and horseshoes, feeding the ducks and fishing in the pond, or strolling through the beautiful Flower Gardens. The Old Dutch Mill was built in 1879 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The mill was recently renovated and now grinds wheat to flour while you watch. |
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Wamego's historical complex sits at the eastern edge of Wamego City Park and includes a museum, a restored one-room schoolhouse, a log cabin and jail. The museum addition which opened in the spring of 1997 is a replica of the original Wamego Town Hall. |
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