Six-Stop Tour: Wichita Area

Take a day trip to Wichita, KS, and explore these favorite attractions.

• Tanganyika Wildlife Park

  Animal Play

  Tanganyika Wildlife Park is an incredible facility where families can experience wildlife like never before. Tanganyika features more than 40 exhibits featuring 10 interactive stations, more than 400 animals and 37 successful breeding programs. Choose one of their Wildly Different Experiences where you can get up close with a variety of zoo animals and learn more about them.

• Scenic Outdoors

  Botanica is a beautiful botanical garden and outdoor attraction with a variety of gardens that include a children’s garden, Chinese friendship garden, Shakespeare garden, railroad garden and more. Visit the Alexander Bee house and learn the important role honeybees play in the environment. The children’s garden is a magical haven where kids follow the Rainbow Trail and explore Monster Woods. Botanica.org

• Scientifically Delicious

  Churn & Burn is a Wichita favorite. This local ice cream and coffee shop makes old-fashioned ice cream with local ingredients. Diners watch as workers freeze the ice cream using liquid nitrogen, creating a fresh, smooth, one-of-a-kind ice cream that’s almost as much fun to watch being made as it is to eat.

• Exploration

  Visit Exploration Place, a hands-on children’s museum where you may rivet an airplane wing, chuck buffalo chips, marvel at a miniaturized 1950s Kansas or rule a medieval castle. Catch a film on the dome screen. These one-of-a-kind experiences and more are available in 12 dynamic exhibit galleries packed with hands-on science fun for the entire family.

• Dynamic Dinos

  Enjoy gigantic fun at Field Station: Dinosaurs, where guests are invited to spend the day with dinosaurs by walking among more than 40 life-size, moving and realistic dinos. The attraction also offers live shows, games and activities, including Paleo Playground, an observation tower, Jurassic Zoo bouncer, Raptor Maze and Jurassic Golf.

• Treasure Hunt

  History lovers will enjoy a visit to the Museum of World Treasures where visitors experience exhibits on the lives of dinosaurs, ancient Egyptians, past presidents, sea creatures of the Plains, the American Civil War, Vietnam War, World War I and II, Africa, Asia and more. Exhibits tell historic stories from every corner of the world.