Photo Galleries

Four-State Lookout, White Cloud -- Offers a view of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa from a viewing platform. Views include glacial hills and the Missouri River.

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Harland J Schuster / Courtesy Photo

Alcove Spring, Blue Rapids -- Chosen because of its historical significance as a stop for Indians, fur traders and emigrants on the Oregon Trail. Visitors can still see the wagon ruts, an intermittent waterfall and a long-flowing spring.

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Tom Parker. / Courtesy Photo

Coronado Heights, Lindsborg -- Not only a historic landmark but a natural platform of Dakota Formation sandstone. It features a scenic overlook of the Smoky Hills and Smoky Hill River Valley.

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Jim Turner / Courtesy Photo

Gyp Hills Scenic Drive and Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway, Barber and Comanche Counties -- Known for their stunning rust-red buttes and mesa capped by layers of sparkling white gypsum.

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KSF / Courtesy Photo

Pillsbury Crossing, near Manhattan -- A flat, stone creek bottom that forms a natural ford and a long, broad waterfall that has been a landmark for generations. Buzz up!

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Dennis Toll / Courtesy Photo

Konza Prairie, Manhattan Ñ Is an internationally recognized research site for tallgrass prairie ecology and has trails for public hiking through the Flint Hills.

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Konza Prairie / Courtesy Photo

Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, Canton -- Known for its prairie and for being the only place in Kansas where buffalo and elk can be viewed in their natural habitat by the public.

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Jim Griggs / Courtesy Photo

Mushroom Rock State Park, Ellsworth County and Rock City, Minneapolis -- Showcases Dakota Sandstone, deposited 100 million years ago and since exposed by the forces of erosion.

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Eldon Clark / Courtesy Photo