Recreation Areas

Recreation Areas in Kansas

Facility Name Description Activities Brown V Board Of Education National Historic Site On October 26, 1992, Congress passed Public Law 102-525 establishing Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site to commemorate the landmark Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation  more... Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) was established in 1966 as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, John Redmond Reservoir flood control project. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  more... Fishing , Hiking , Hunting , Museum/Visitor Center , Wildlife Viewing Fort Larned National Historic Site Fort Larned was established in 1859 as a base of military operations against hostile Indians of the Central Plains, to protect traffic along the Santa Fe Trail and as an agency for the administration  more... Fishing , Museum/Visitor Center , Picnic , Wildlife Viewing Fort Scott National Historic Site 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  more... Museum/Visitor Center , Picnic Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center Begun in 1962 as a planetarium on the Kansas State Fairgrounds, the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas has grown into a multifaceted space science education facility.With one  more... Museum/Visitor Center Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) was established in 1954 for the conservation, maintenance, and management of wildlife resources, particularly migratory birds. The Refuge is located in  more... Autotouring , Fishing , Hiking , Hunting , Museum/Visitor Center , Wildlife Viewing Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is located 39 miles south of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The 7,500-acre Refuge was established in 1992 to protect one of the northwestern-most  more... Fishing , Hiking , Hunting Nicodemus National Historic Site Nicodemus National Historic Site, Kansas. This area preserves, protects and interprets the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the  more... Picnic Quivira National Wildlife Refuge Quivira National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) was established in 1955 to provide wintering habitat and a migration stop for migratory birds moving up and down the Central Flyway. In 1999, Quivira NWR  more... Autotouring , Fishing , Hiking , Hunting Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve On November 12, 1996, legislation was passed creating Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. A new superintendent was assigned to the site in February 1997, and  more... Hiking , Museum/Visitor Center , Picnic , Wildlife Viewing