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Fan Life => The Endzone Dive => Topic started by: Saulbadguy on May 17, 2007, 08:31:21 AM
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I drove to Quinter (WTF) Kansas yesterday and thought it would be fun sometime to take an extended weekend road trip with my wife around Kansas.
What are some must see tourist-y destinations that you would include in a Kansas road trip?
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1 day?
Z-Bar Ranch
Garden of Eden
There's actually a lot of pretty cool rock formations out west.
My dad goes on motorcycle rides across the state all the time. I'll ask him sometime.
Side note: the Kansas tourism commercials have my old apartment (Wareham Hotel) featured!
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Cawker City. World's largest ball of twine.
(http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Cawker/images/twine.jpg)
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Cawker City. World's largest ball of twine.
(http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Cawker/images/twine.jpg)
Been there. My wife and I got our picture taken. The locals piss on it. (literally)
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1 day?
Z-Bar Ranch
Garden of Eden
There's actually a lot of pretty cool rock formations out west.
My dad goes on motorcycle rides across the state all the time. I'll ask him sometime.
Side note: the Kansas tourism commercials have my old apartment (Wareham Hotel) featured!
Probably a 3 days. Leave on a friday morning, get back to Topeka on a sunday afternoon.
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You could go fishing up in Marysville and eat sandwiches for lunch, that'd be a fun one.
I went past Quinter once while at KSU to a town called Park to pheasant hunt.
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Garden of Eden
World's deepest hand dug well
Worlds largest easel
Monument to a girl that wrote Abraham Lincoln a letter to grow a beard.
Garden of Eden...again
World's largest prarie dog
Ball of twine
Rock City
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On second thought, you should probably just go ahead and continue on to Colorado.
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St. Jacobs well and Big Basin are kind of cool they are near Ashland-home of superfan Ropinfeet. The area around that part of the state is pretty stunning, red rock formations sort of like a mini Utah. Also, Castle Rock southwest of WaKeeny is almost, like they say, "worth the drive". Wilson Lake is pretty nice, clear water, seanic.
My finace and I have talked about doing a camping trip around Kansas, we still haven't gotten around to it though.
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your fiance?
what was all this one in a million talk?
kansas blows.
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your fiance?
what was all this one in a million talk?
kansas blows.
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Saw-we :-*
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if you're into geology there's Mushroom rock by Kanapolis reservoir, Rock city by Minneapolis, Castle Rock as suggested above, all somewhat on the way to some of the other mentioned. I've heard the area south of Greensburg is beautiful.
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I-70 unfortunately runs right through the most boring parts of the state. Get off just a few miles and you can see some great stuff.
The far northwest corner of the state is some of the most beautiful in the state. I'm talking the last 15-20 miles. Rugged and desolate but strikingly beautiful.
Big Basin and St Jacobs Well east of Meade.
Castle Rock (not terribly far from Quinter)
Solomon River Valley 15 miles north of Hays.
Wilson Reservoir, not far off I-70. My favorite lake in the state. Some great hiking, but not on a hot day.
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Um, I've big to Big Basin, and it's dumb. Can't believe it's gotten two mentions. Gyp Hills are real cool, though.
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your fiance?
Thats what she said. 8)
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Grand Canyon of Doniphan County - tough to find and probably not worth the trip
White Cloud Flea Market (Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends) - more worthless crap than you will ever see in one place in Kansas
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your fiance?
Thats what she said. 8)
you?
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West Mineral. Big Brutus.
(http://www.bigbrutus.org/images/brutus-1.gif)
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Big Basin is where you can see tarantula's cross the road in front of you. Its beautiful country. One giant sinkhole. Do you prefer flat farmland or urban sprawl?
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Big Basin is where you can see tarantula's cross the road in front of you. Its beautiful country. One giant sinkhole. Do you prefer flat farmland or urban sprawl?
Did you not drive through the gyp hills to get there?
If not, you took a dumb route.
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Gyp Hills are real cool, though.
God bless your sole, please come we need tourists :)
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The Cimmaron National Grasslands in far SW Kansas are really nice. While there, you can visit tri-corners, the border between OK, KS, and CO. Interestingly, there is a road from there northward. There is an old survey marker a ways north of the corner that is supposed to denote the border between KS and CO. The marker is several feet inside of Kansas. This was an intentional incorrectly set marker that was an apparent plot by some folks in Colorado to steal land from Kansas.
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There is always the world's largest public swimming pool located in Garden City, KS !
The Flint Hills are beautiful in the spring when the fields are burned (especially at night) and again as it starts to green. Of course, that's not exactly Western Kansas.
The Cosmosphere is great in Hutchinson. They have just open the salt mine museum; don't know if it is any good.
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gyp hills are beautiful in the spring
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There is always the world's largest cess pool located in Garden City, KS !
fixed it
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No one has mentioned Mt. Sunflower???? What's wrong with you people! Wallace county, bring your O2. Interesting only for the novelty of it.
Arikaree Breaks in far, far, FAR northwest Cheyenne county is very cool.
Its the Saline River 15 miles north of Hays.
Monument Rocks (south of Oakley) has interesting rock formations. Castle Rock has lost its tallest spire, so its not the same if you'd seen it before. Castle Rock area has the better view still though.
Scott State Lake is something of a jewel in the middle of nowhere. Pueblo Indians lived there.
Old courthouse in Russell Springs in Logan county has (or at least used to have) a fairly interesting museum on the Butterfield Express stagecoach line, among other things. On your way there, eat at the Mexican cafe in Monument, if you're brave enough.
Don't drive I-70, it sucks once you get out of the Smoky Hills.
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You could go fishing up in Marysville and eat sandwiches for lunch, that'd be a fun one.
I went past Quinter once while at KSU to a town called Park to pheasant hunt.
Marysville - Black Squirrel Capital of the World
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The best road trips through Kansas begin when you can see the "Welcome to Kanas" sign fading away in the rear view mirror.
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Big Basin is where you can see tarantula's cross the road in front of you. Its beautiful country. One giant sinkhole. Do you prefer flat farmland or urban sprawl?
Did you not drive through the gyp hills to get there?
If not, you took a dumb route.
I did, but unfortunately it was at night. Took a couple side trips back into some open rangeland including a spot where you could see for miles, but being at night, I could pretty much see 5 feet. Really quiet and a great starry night in that peaceful area.
If you want something more urban, stop by the capitol building and take a tour up the 296 steps (starting from the 5th floor) to the dome. At the top you can go outside and on the clearest days you can easily see Jeffries Energy Center at a distance of 29 miles.
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Big Basin is where you can see tarantula's cross the road in front of you. Its beautiful country. One giant sinkhole. Do you prefer flat farmland or urban sprawl?
Did you not drive through the gyp hills to get there?
If not, you took a dumb route.
I did, but unfortunately it was at night. Took a couple side trips back into some open rangeland including a spot where you could see for miles, but being at night, I could pretty much see 5 feet. Really quiet and a great starry night in that peaceful area.
gyp hills are much better than the sinkhole.
If you want something more urban, stop by the capitol building and take a tour up the 296 steps (starting from the 5th floor) to the dome. At the top you can go outside and on the clearest days you can easily see Jeffries Energy Center at a distance of 29 miles.
Also, there's a couple Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Wichita, and the KS sports HOF (never been). The Hotel at Oldtown is a nice place to stay and the Sports Bar at the Oldtown Warren is ridiculous.
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Also, there's a couple Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Wichita, and the KS sports HOF (never been). The Hotel at Oldtown is a nice place to stay and the Sports Bar at the Oldtown Warren is ridiculous.
Dude, RIVERFEST right now!!! Jumbo Corn Dogs and American Idol concerts galore!
Last year, Nick Lachey gave a shout-out to KSU hoops during his set.
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There is always the world's largest cess pool located in Garden City, KS !
fixed it
Chupa,
I'll have you know that Garden City is very proud of that cess, I mean swimming, pool !
And no I'm not from there...
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I grew up 6 miles from the ball of twine.
Big Brutus is pretty cool to see. Plenty of others listed here.
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I grew up 6 miles from the ball of twine.
Big Brutus is pretty cool to see. Plenty of others listed here.
In Cawker City or Glen Elder?
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I grew up 6 miles from the ball of twine.
Big Brutus is pretty cool to see. Plenty of others listed here.
In Cawker City or Glen Elder?
Twine is in Cawker. Glen Elder is 9 miles from Cawker. I grew up 6 miles west of Cawker in Downs.
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I grew up 6 miles from the ball of twine.
Big Brutus is pretty cool to see. Plenty of others listed here.
In Cawker City or Glen Elder?
Twine is in Cawker. Glen Elder is 9 miles from Cawker. I grew up 6 miles west of Cawker in Downs.
I have some cousins that live in Downs. My family boats at Glen Elder Lake.
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Saul, I got your roadtrip idea - how about you and the wife hop in the minivan and drive to KatKid's girlfriends house and do her from the back.
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is this the line to do someone's girl from behind?
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is this the line to do someone's girl from behind?
no, I started it over here, take a number please and thanks
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I'll be up fishing in Glen Elder in a couple weeks. Staying in Glen itself. It pretty much missed out on most of the rains so the lake is still pretty low. But I can guarantee the wind won't be low. Lord, it never stops blowing on that lake. Damn near swamped our boat in the widest part of the lake a few years back.
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I just like it because it isn't crowded.
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Can't forget Boothill here in Dodge City lol.
And also Clark County lake. It doesn't look like it belongs out here.
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Quality fishing at Waconda. I don't fish there much anymore, its pretty much Milford for me.
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I'll have you know that Garden City is very proud of that cess, I mean swimming, pool !
Yeah, where else are the elephants supposed to take a bath? :blank:
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I just like it because it isn't crowded.
It wouldn't be if it weren't for the red horde that crawls across the northern border. Go there this time of year and half the trucks at the boat ramp have nubb plates.
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I plan vacations based upon food. So here are the best places to eat. Mostly Central Kansas
Lawrence:
For lunch go to Quentin's and get a 1/2 soup and sandwich. Wisconsin cheese is best.
For Dinner go to Bambino's. All the food is good and on weekends they have $3.50 massive margaritas and some middle aged dude singing Springstein covers.
Great Bend:
Kiowa Kitchen-Mexican
Little River- Fatboys steak house
Hutchinson area -Carriage crossing, those Amish (Menonite/same thing) can cook!
Hudson-Ickies it's a diner but it is the perfect blend of grease and food.
Mostly all I know is from Central Kansas, but There is nothing in Western Kansas. The easel = eh. The prairie dog = haha I suckered you out of hard earned cash.
You're better off camping at Kanopolis and going to state parks and nature preserve like quivera or viewing flint hills prairies and just taking in nature then seeing big balls of twine (round hay bails?)
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Cozy Inn in Salina :lick:
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Jalisco's in Dodge City. You should be prepared to order by pointing at a picture or speaking in mjrodese. If they can't speak English, then the food must be good!
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Jalisco's in Dodge City. You should be prepared to order by pointing at a picture or speaking in mjrodese. If they can't speak English, then the food must be good!
So must the diarrhea.
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hey ksufan, this was at Glen Elder
http://www.big12warzone.com/forums/index.php?topic=10498.0
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kansas blows.
Actually... Nebraska blows, Oklahoma sucks, and Kansas just steers clear of all the sexual innuendo's. :ku:
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Isn't there a Wizard of Oz museum in Wamego or something?
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kansas blows.
Actually... Nebraska blows, Oklahoma sucks, and Kansas just steers clear of all the sexual innuendo's. :ku:
Damn with the wind today Oklahoma must have been blowing hard and Nebraska sucking even harder.
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Isn't there a Wizard of Oz museum in Wamego or something?
The king of Munchkinland came from Washington, Kansas.
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There is always the world's largest cess pool located in Garden City, KS !
fixed it
Chupa,
I'll have you know that Garden City is very proud of that cess, I mean swimming, pool !
And no I'm not from there...
Sadly, I'm a GC native....I'm not sure that "proud" is the right word. Most people just call it the "bean dip" for obvious reasons. Avoid Garden at all costs.
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my former sister in law is from the GC. i went out there for the first time for the reception.
it was my first time west of topeka.
it felt like i was doing a scene from deliverance.
the whole weekend.
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Try living there for 20 years....it makes living in Oklahoma seem bareable. :banghead:
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On Hwy.56 past Great Bend. Pawnee Rock & Fort Larned Historical site. I will always love traveling 177, and/or Turnpike from Topeka to Wichita, and staring at the Flint Hills. Beautiful when green.
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Lots of touristy things to do in Abilene, Council Grove or Atchison (although probably not the same weekend since they are pretty far apart).
There's ruins of a Pawnee Indian village west of Belleville that's very interesting and Rock City in nearby Minneapolis. Concordia has a few things.
Cottonwood Falls in the flint hills has the Chase County Courthouse, which is cool. West of Hays is Cedar Bluff Reservoir, which has a cool overlook from the top of the bluffs, although you have to take gravel roads to get there.
Also, Lindsborg is fun for Swedish heritage and nearby is Coronado Heights, and lots to do in Salina too.
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my former sister in law is from the GC. i went out there for the first time for the reception.
it was my first time west of topeka.
it felt like i was doing a scene from deliverance.
the whole weekend.
I've been to Garden City a few times and the one thing that made that town bearable was the amazing golf cours Buffalo Dunes, i think that's what it is called. I absolutely loved playing that course, it's so well kept, and i think it was rated in the top 50 golf courses in the country...no joke. The only other thing i remember about GC is that the whole damn town smelled like cow sh*t. Oh, and does GC really have the largest public pool in the country??
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No one has mentioned Mt. Sunflower???? What's wrong with you people! Wallace county, bring your O2. Interesting only for the novelty of it.
Arikaree Breaks in far, far, FAR northwest Cheyenne county is very cool.
Its the Saline River 15 miles north of Hays.
Monument Rocks (south of Oakley) has interesting rock formations. Castle Rock has lost its tallest spire, so its not the same if you'd seen it before. Castle Rock area has the better view still though.
Scott State Lake is something of a jewel in the middle of nowhere. Pueblo Indians lived there.
Old courthouse in Russell Springs in Logan county has (or at least used to have) a fairly interesting museum on the Butterfield Express stagecoach line, among other things. On your way there, eat at the Mexican cafe in Monument, if you're brave enough.
Don't drive I-70, it sucks once you get out of the Smoky Hills.
Yeah its pretty cool.
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The Kansas Sampler Foundation has a program going on to vote for the "8 wonders of Kansas." I've been to 17 of the 24. By 5 of them in the last two weeks.
You can vote for your favorite if so inclined.
http://www.8wonders.org/opening.cfm
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The Kansas Sampler Foundation has a program going on to vote for the "8 wonders of Kansas." I've been to 17 of the 24. By 5 of them in the last two weeks.
You can vote for your favorite if so inclined.
http://www.8wonders.org/opening.cfm
If anyone votes for the Garden of Eden in Lucas, they deserve to be shot.
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Oh, and does GC really have the largest public pool in the country??
They tack on a few more qualifiers: largest free, municipal, outdoor, concrete pool. Something like that.