Sightseeing
Local GemHays
No admission feeA northwest Kansas city visitor bureau promoting local history, the Sternberg Museum, and Historic Fort Hays.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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SightseeingHistory BuffLocal Gem
Nicodemus National Historic Site
Walk the streets of the oldest remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi, founded by formerly enslaved settlers in 1877.
304 Washington Ave · Nicodemus, KS
About Nicodemus National Historic Site
Nicodemus was founded in 1877, and formerly enslaved African Americans left Kentucky at the end of Reconstruction to settle it and seek freedom on the Kansas plains. Start at the Township Hall visitor center for exhibits and the park's short films, then step inside the AME Church. The site holds five historic buildings, including the St. Francis Hotel, the First Baptist Church and the District No. 1 schoolhouse, and you can tour the town on foot, by car or by bicycle.
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What's around here?
The closest stops to Nicodemus National Historic Site, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.
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Hays Welcome Center
No admission feeCity-run welcome center on Vine Street in Hays, Kansas, with maps, brochures, free coffee, restrooms and a gift shop for I-70 travelers.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Under $25See Kansas sea monsters, a fish-within-a-fish fossil and a walk-through Cretaceous diorama at this Hays museum.
39 mi awaySwitch it up: Museums
