Blog /blog/stories/ Blog Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:21:35 +0000 Christmas Lights Road Trip Through Southeast Kansas /blog/stories/post/christmas-lights-road-trip-through-southeast-kansas/ /blog/stories/post/christmas-lights-road-trip-through-southeast-kansas/#comments /blog/stories/post/christmas-lights-road-trip-through-southeast-kansas/ Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0500
Take your family on a road trip to experience the beautiful and magical, FREE light displays throughout . Some of these, likely in communities you've never heard of, are going to surprise you.

Includes more than 20 displays featuring nearly 500,000 lights. There is a synched radio

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A free spirit blows through the prairies and forested floodplains of Southeast Kansas. Travel along U.S. Route 160, and you’ll find a town named “Independence,” a fitting tribute to the region’s pioneering heart. And that’s just the beginning.

Solo travelers can embrace this emboldened, carefree way

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An open field under brilliant blue Kansas skies. A meandering creek. Rock wall fences. The weathered barn still standing against the wind. The old farmstead, gone silent for now. What stories could they tell us? What have they seen on these 80 acres as generations of families have come and gone

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PEDALING, PADDLING, AND PRAIRIE HIKES: THESE PARKS DELIVER OUTDOOR PERFECTION WITH A CAPITAL “P.”

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Photography by Dana Damewood

Northeast

Paddle And Roll

A magnificent seven parks bustle with pedaling, paddling, and other popular pastimes.

While many people know northeast Kansas for its urban

]]> Where To Hit The Beach In Kansas /blog/stories/post/where-to-hit-the-beach-in-kansas/ /blog/stories/post/where-to-hit-the-beach-in-kansas/#comments /blog/stories/post/where-to-hit-the-beach-in-kansas/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:00:00 -0400

Kansas may be a long way from a coast but there are no shortage of public beaches.

*Please visit

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