If you are thinking of a vacation in Kansas, but having second thoughts due to expenses, well, we got good news: you can enjoy Kansas for less than the usual budget. With some detailed planning and advance information, you can go to many different places in Kansas and enjoy what you wish to see or do. The options are almost endless.
A Selection of Destinations and Activities
For example, outdoor enthusiasts will love to get near the bison of American legends in the wildlife refuges and the state’s Flint Hills. To see the animal up close is to feel its raw power and imagine how it was thousands of years ago, when they roamed the immensity of the tallgrass prairie like an unstoppable flood. The bison is an American historical icon as well as nature’s gift in a large package.
Amateur paleontologists can tour the museums of dinosaur and sea- monster fossils. The tour is a four-day adventure trip through several sites that includes a look at the unusually unique rock formations in Marquette’s Mushroom State park, and the ‘underwater’ butte and arches of the Monument Rocks in Scott City and Oakley. There are mosasaurs, fossil fish, crinoids, and several T-Rex exhibits to marvel at during the tour.
There is also a unique museum in Topeka, Kansas that will fascinate those interested in war and warcraft: the Combat Air Museum. Among the popular exhibits inside are the German Prisoner of War (POW) room; the Skynight, a fold-wing Korean war fighter; a escape capsule of the F-111 Stealth aircraft; and a Tiger aircraft of the famous Air Force’s Blue Angels acrobatic team. The artworks on aviation, a WWII ambulance, the jeep and framed photographs will impress on any visitor the role aviation played in the defense of the country and freedom.
Meanwhile, Holton’s ghost tour of two inns, the cemetery and the haunted country club is limited to visitors 12 years or older. This is probably to avoid undue impression of ghost stories in the minds of youngsters. The ghosts include a pilot, a young man, and a Viking tossing stones into the Elk Horn Lake. Maybe you would see them, too?
Kansas Waits for You
The preceding are just suggestions of what you can do and where you can go on a vacation in Kansas. There are plenty of other destinations and activities, including specialty pursuits like fly fishing, though not for trout. But one can explore the potentials of fly fishing for the sunfish family species in the county state lakes of Bourbon, Pottawatomie, Chase and the Cowley Elm Creek Lake as well. May, June and December are the recommended months to flyfish in Kansas.
So go to Kansas on your next vacation. To cut your budget, skip the more luxurious hotels and choose the smaller inns, lodges or pensions. Go there by car or train and save on airfare, enjoying what you see along the way. Sometimes what matters in a vacation is not the destination but the trip; not where you go but how you get there.
