The route to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve includes a stretch of Kansas Highway 177, designated the Flint Hills Scenic Byway, where travelers get views of rolling hills of prairie as ...

From Kansas City International Airport, it’s a 72-mile trip west to Topeka, Kansas, and another 80 miles southwest to Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. From Wichita International Airport, an ...

In 2004, a Kansas trust was formed to retire ... He credits the increase to several new hiking trails. The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve headquarters is two miles north of Strong City ...

The Nature Conservancy in Kansas has further details and touring ... Today less than 4 percent of the original tallgrass prairie remains, concentrated mostly in the Flint Hills.

the largest remaining stand of tallgrass prairie anywhere. Named by explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806 for the rocky terrain, the Flint Hills is a 160-mile strip in eastern Kansas. It stretches from ...