Recently, over the summer, I journeyed to Lehigh-Portland Trails – our newest state park. Located right by Iola, this park is a literal five-minute drive from my grandparents’ house. With it being so close to them I naturally am quite familiar with it and enjoy visiting whenever I get the

Location: Oakley

Tread lightly amid this fragile yet ruggedly spectacular mile-long stretch of Niobrara chalk formations. Two trails (1⁄4 and 1 1⁄2 miles) skim a ridgetop for overviews of the 100-foot-tall spires and cliffs left behind by an inland sea. Ferruginous hawks and rock wrens inhabit

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

*Please visit

Johnny Vargas loves hanging around with his friends, literally. He’s a self-described “hammocker” of

Whether it’s a small pocket of unexpected rock formations or an eagerly anticipated new park spanning hundreds of acres, Kansas offers plenty of places to get active outside.

PRAIRIE PERSPECTIVES

Soak in the beauty of blooming prairie flowers, native bluestem grass and limestone outcroppings along

New Years Travel Resolutions

We all make resolutions for the new year. And some of them, we actually

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

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

Stride for Stride, Buffalo Tracks Nature Trail, is one of the best hikes in America. For one thing, it goes through the prettiest part of one of the prettiest state parks in the nation. For scenic beauty, Kanopolis State Park has justifiably been rated as high as 14th of the nation’s 7,500 state

It’s the kind of place where you can travel many miles in near silence as your hiking boots or bike