Kansas Parks and Recreation Areas with Interpretive Programs

The preserve protects a nationally significant example of the once vast tallgrass ecosystem. Of the 400,000 square miles of tallgrass prairie that once covered the North American Continent, less than 4 percent remains, primarily in the Flint Hills. read more...

Phone: 620-273-8494   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: Yes
Nearest Popular City: Cottonwood Falls   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Preserve   Activities: Birding, Hiking, Wildlife Watching, Nature Walks, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Promises made and broken! A town attacked at dawn! Thousands made homeless by war! Soldiers fighting settlers! Each of these stories is a link in the chain of events that encircled Fort Scott from 1842-73. All of the sites 20 historic structures, its parade ground, and its five acres of restored tallgrass prairie bear witness to this era when the United States was forged from a young divided republic into a united and powerful transcontinental nation. read more...

Phone: 620-223-0310   Price Range: $0 - $3   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Fort Scott,   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Nature Walks, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Fort Scott National Historic Site