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Go Explore Kansas

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Head west to Legends Outlets for a day of shopping and local attractions. The shopping center features tributes to local celebrities with banners, statues and artwork. Catch a movie at the theater or listen to a concert on the Lawn. Then, visit Nebraska Furniture Mart, the largest furniture retailer in the region, and Cabela’s, an outdoor store with an amazing aquarium and animal exhibits. Top it all off with a Monarchs baseball game! Sunday Fundays in the summer are a great time to enjoy a game. Families love the day at the ballpark with inflatables, carnival games and player meet-and-greets.

The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson is one of the state’s finest museums. The museum is home to the largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian space artifacts in the world. The exhibits take visitors through the history of the Cold War and up through the modern era and include both the history and science of the space program. The museum houses Sputnik I and II, space suits, rockets, a moon rock and more than 100 artifacts. Strataca is a one-of-a-kind experience through an underground salt mine museum. Visitors are taken on a 650-foot journey underground to the 68-degree mine (bring a light jacket), where they discover the history of salt mining in Kansas.

Tanganyika Wildlife Park

Have you ever wanted to swim with penguins? Pet a sloth? Hold a lemur? Believe it or not, there is a magical zoo right in the heart of Kansas (near Wichita) where you can do all that and more! Tanganyika Wildlife Park is unlike any other zoo we’ve visited—this privately owned zoo is small and intimate, but every exhibit is beautiful, immaculate, and spacious and offers the most natural habitat possible for the animals. Visitors customize their park experience with the activities they book. You may elect to participate in all their “Wildly Different Experiences” or purchase the opportunities a la carte.

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