Things to do across Kansas

A northwest Kansas city visitor bureau promoting local history, the Sternberg Museum, and Historic Fort Hays.

Northwest Kansas town on the Western Vistas Historic Byway, gateway to Monument Rocks and the Kansas Badlands.

Northwest Kansas town on I-70 known as the Oasis on the Plains, with a pioneer museum and historic downtown.

Southwest Kansas county anchored by Garden City, home to a free zoo, historical museum and prairie festivals.

The official visitor center and gift shop for Liberal, Kansas, Dorothy's official hometown.

A free Oakley, Kansas museum of giant marine fossils, a sod house replica and pioneer-era artifacts.

The visitor center for an 88 mile scenic drive through northwest Kansas farmland, canyons and Mount Sunflower.

Oakley's travel information center on US 83 beside a twice life-size bronze of Buffalo Bill Cody, with Wild West and Smoky Hill Trail exhibits and a Kansas gift shop.

City-run welcome center on Vine Street in Hays, Kansas, with maps, brochures, free coffee, restrooms and a gift shop for I-70 travelers.

Walk a reconstructed Old West street in Dodge City, with frontier exhibits, gunfight shows and the Long Branch Variety Show.

Walk among 1860s sandstone army buildings around a parade ground where troops once guarded the Santa Fe Trail.

Tour the restored 1840s frontier fort, its officers' quarters and parade ground, plus a patch of restored tallgrass prairie.

Hike two short trails to overlooks above white chalk spires and canyons, the largest Niobrara Chalk formation in Kansas.

Walk among chalk buttes and arches up to 70 feet tall rising from the prairie, on private land open to respectful visitors.

Walk the streets of the oldest remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi, founded by formerly enslaved settlers in 1877.

See Kansas sea monsters, a fish-within-a-fish fossil and a walk-through Cretaceous diorama at this Hays museum.

Wrap your own strand of sisal twine around a 27,000-pound ball sheltered in a roadside gazebo in Cawker City.