Travel Information for Kansas Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Kansas attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Kansas state park, this is where you will find it.
In KANSAS visitors can explore the continent's largest remaining tallgrass prairie and discover sweeping horizons, towns with storied pasts, and genuine cowboy-style adventures, find dinosaur bones and moon rocks, hunt and fish, find diverse art centers and museums, and comb out-of-the-way antique shops.
Visitors to ABILENE can take a 10-mile round-trip excursion on the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad or experience the history of the 34th president at the Eisenhower Center.
ATCHISON is home to the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum.
In CHANUTE visitors can enjoy a “down on the farm” experience with Carlson’s Corn Maze and Wildflower Tours or experience photographing lions in Africa at the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum.
Known in the 1870s as the "Cowboy Capital", visitors to DODGE CITY relive the 1870s heyday of the rip-snortin', gun-slingin' Wild West at the Boot Hill Museum on the original site of Boot Hill Cemetery and at the Gunfighters Wax Museum.
To relive life as a pioneer of the 1850s, the overland wagon train in EL DORADO celebrates pioneer days, chuck wagon meals, campfires and frontier music.
The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the heart of the Kansas FLINT HILLS offers a historic ranch headquarters area with buildings dating from the late 19th century; a nature trail, and acres of prairie lands.
The FORT SCOTT National Historic Site, established in 1842 to keep peace and protect Kansans from bushwhackers, is now fully restored and features living history reenactments and guided tours.
Bronze plaques mark a visitors’ route through Historic Downtown HAYS; attractions include the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, with its diorama recreating the area's prehistoric environment and life in the Great Plains, and the Fort Hays State Historic Site.
HUTCHINSON attractions include the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian, with American space program artifacts, and Hedrick’s Exotic Animal Farm; the Kansas Splashdown indoor water park also has a space theme.
INDEPENDENCE attractions include a replica of Ingall’s 1870 Little House on the Prairie on the original site.
KANSAS CITY's rich ethnic culture is celebrated through its many festivals, its monuments and its historic sites, including the Quindaro Ruins/Underground Railroad, the largest archaeological shrine to freedom, Strawberry Hill, an historic 1887 High Victorian mansion, ethnic museum and cultural center, and the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame.
A city rich in historical attractions and outdoor recreational opportunities, LAWRENCE offers The Museum of Natural History (fossils and mounted animals in natural habitats), The Spencer Museum of Art, and The Museum of Anthropology.
LEAVENWORTH attractions include the Carroll Mansion, the Carnegie Arts Center, the Frontier Army Museum which tells the story of Fort Leavenworth from the early 1800s, the Performing Arts Center and the First City Museum with its collection of early frontier memorabilia; the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum is one of only five carousel museums in the country.
LIBERAL attractions include the vintage aircraft at the Mid America Air Museum, the original model of the house in which Dorothy flew to Oz and the Coronado Museum at the Seward County Historical Museum, the fine arts of The Baker Arts Center and the International Pancake Day Hall of Fame.
Known as “Little Sweden USA”, LINDSBORG attractions include the Hemslöjd where visitors can watch craftsmen in a woodworking shop.
Three attractions that draw visitors to MANHATTAN are the historic Aggieville district, the Harold M. Freund American Museum of Baking, the only baking museum in the United States; and the diverse recreation of Tuttle State Park.
OLATHE has a variety of activities and attractions for hot-air ballooning and sail boarding, two public lakes, the Ernie Miller Nature Center with forest and prairie trails, and the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm, the last surviving stagecoach stop on the Santa Fe Trail.
SALINA attractions include the Historic Downtown District, the Central Kansas Flywheel Museum with its antique tractors, and the Wildlife Museum at the nearby Rolling Hills Zoo.
There are original and replica buildings from the 1800s and 1900s in SHAWNEE in Old Shawnee Town; nearby is the Wonderscope Children’s Museum and there are vintage, bluegrass and world instruments at the Mountain Music Shoppe.
The capital of Kansas, TOPEKA features everything from pioneer landscapes to historic attractions, including the Kansas Museum of History, the Topeka Genealogical Society Library, where visitors can trace their family history, the Combat Air Museum, with two hangars of historic military aircraft and exhibits from WW1, Topeka Harley-Davidson, with its vintage motorcycles, and for all the family, the Topeka Zoological Park in Gage Park.
The Oz Museum in WAMEGO houses one of the largest private collections of Oz memorabilia in the world; the Wamego Museum complex consists of a museum, a one room school house, a rock jail and a log cabin, all near the Old Dutchmill.
Some of the main WICHITA attractions are the Historic Old Town District with its antique shops, restaurants, and night spots, Old Cowtown Museum, an open-air living history museum, the Kansas Aviation Museum, a repository of Kansas’ aviation heritage, the Wichita Art Museum anchoring the Museums on the River district west of downtown, Museum of World Treasures, and Exploration Place which offers immersive exhibits and hands-on experiences; each area at the Botanica, The Wichita Gardens has its own theme, the Great Plains Nature Center showcases the wildlife and plant species of the Great Plains Region, and at the Mid-America All-Indian Center visitors take part in the rich heritage of the Native Peoples.
At nearby BENTON, the National Hopalong Cassidy Museum at the Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Supper provides a stunning display of hundreds of Hopalong Cassidy items.
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