¸£ÀûÉ©

to identify if we are on blog index or detail page. When on detail page: On page load, the header slideshow is hidden, allowing for JS at bottom of page to update the image and then show main image in header slideshow without flashing content while image is updated. */ var el = document.querySelector('body'); var className = false ? "blog-detail" : "blog-index"; if (el.classList) { el.classList.add(className); } else { el.className += " " + className; }

Tag: Family Fun

Orbital Outposts: Destinations Across Kansas Cosmos

By Maci Branch on Jul. 16, 2021

Orbital Outposts are real life locations across the state of Kansas that are within the elliptical orbit of each respective planet. Using the entire state of Kansas as our guide, the first four planets are all found in Johnson County, while Saturn’s orbit is at Wamego to the north and Chanute to the…

Read More

Kansas’ Tailgate Beach

By Michael Pearce on Sep. 10, 2018

Possibly Kansas’ best beach is a bit unconventional, contains very little sand and is probably the…

Read More

Kanopolis State Park - The Park You Never Knew You Needed in Your Life

By Michael Pearce on Aug. 24, 2018

The map may say central Kansas, and the calendar 2018, but Kanopolis State Park is like the Old West of more than a century ago. For miles Tallgrass prairie waves in the wind. Deep and steep canyons gouge the grasslands, packed with caverns and dotted with giant, rose-colored rock. It’s so…

Read More

Reliving History at Fort Larned

By Karen Ridder on Jul. 27, 2011

Imagine walking 50 miles across a hostile prairie just to make sure the mail goes through. That was among the regular duties for infantry soldiers at Fort Larned in the 1860s. The fort was among those constructed to protect commerce on the Santa Fe Trail. The trail was one of the most important…

Read More