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77 miles, 7 charming communities, and 3 wetlands of international importance.
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Quivira National Wildlife Refuge
Cheyenne BottomsState Wildlife Area
Quivira Visitorʼs Center
Pawnee Rock State Historic Site
Nature Conservancy
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Funded in part by the Federal Highway Administration through the Kansas Scenic Byways Program.
To experience the Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway to its fullest, we encourage you to download a copy of our 36-page detailed guide or pick up our informative audio tour CD. We hope you enjoy our magnificent Byway.
Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway • www.KansasWetlandsandWildlife
ScenicByway.com
• Great Bend Convention & Visitors Bureau
620-792-2750, toll free - 877-427-9299
• Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway
620-793-1800, toll free - 877-419-7171
National Scenic Byway&Wetlands
Wildlife
Exploring remarkable sites in three Kansas counties
Hoisington Welcome Center WWNSB Welcome Sign, The Wrath of Nature
TNC Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve Entrance - K-4 HighwayWWNSB Welcome Sign, Birds of the Woods and Prairie Cheyenne Bottoms Scenic Overlook - K-4 HighwayWings Over the Water, Prey and Play
Claflin City Park on K-4 HighwayWWNSB Welcome Sign, Settling the Great American Desert
Kansas Wetlands Education Center on K-156 Highway WWNSB Welcome Sign
Cheyenne Bottoms K-156 Highway Rest StopCheyenne Bottoms, Magic Muck
Cheyenne Bottoms HeadquartersJackrabbit Run
Barton County Historical Museum and Village-Great BendArkansas River’s Great Bend, People of the Plains
Great Bend Courthouse Square - NW CornerWild West Super Highway
Great Bend Brit Spaugh ZooWWNSB Welcome Sign
Ellinwood City ParkWWNSB Welcome Sign, Post Rock & Black Gold
Quivira Scenic OverlookQuivira National Wildlife Refuge, Birds of the Wetlands & Water, No Trees Allowed, Illusive Cities of Gold
Quivira Visitors Center WWNSB Welcome Sign
Hudson City ParkWWNSB Welcome Sign, Cultivating America’s Bread Basket
Stafford County Courthouse - St. JohnWWNSB Welcome Sign, Surviving the Dirty Thirties
Stafford County Historical Society - StaffordWWNSB Welcome Sign, Home on the Range
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racing the mile lines of the Great Plains, the Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway connects two of the world’s most ecologically important wetlands—Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge. More than 60,000 acres of natural wetlands host hundreds of thousands of migrating ducks, geese, gulls, cranes, and shorebirds annually. No wonder this wetland region has been named one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas!
But the Byway offers far more than dazzling wetlands. Along the 77-mile route, you can visit hand-crafted native stone bridges, walk historic underground tunnels, and explore local
museums. You can savor local artwork, follow in the footsteps of early settlers along the Santa Fe Trail, and meet birds of prey at a raptor rehabilitation center.
Linger over the restored grasslands that flourish under the Kansas sky. Taste bread baked with flour from wheat grown in our backyards. Watch for deer, coyotes, and turkeys in rolling croplands along your route.
Discover the landscape and meet the people who call the Byway lands home. Pick up a Byway map, slip in the audio tour CD, and come explore our extraordinary corner of the planet.
Motion and ChangeAlong the Byway, you’ll encounter the
motion and change that is our history…
and our future. You’re entering a land
of stunning bird migrations, of wild winds
and weather, and of dancing prairie
grasses—a land richly layered with human
history. Welcome!
American Rubyspot/Ted Lee Eubanks
Whooping Crane/Ryan Hagerty
Wheat and silo/Ted Lee Eubanks
Cheyenne Bottoms/Ted Lee Eubanks
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge/Ted Lee Eubanks
Wilson’s Phalarope/Ted Lee Eubanks
More than half of all shorebirds that migrate east of the Rockies pass through Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge marshes annually.
The endangered Whooping Crane is just one of the more than 330 bird species that visit Byway wetlands.
Now a world-class birding destination, Cheyenne Bottoms hosted the first regulated grey-hound coursing match in the United States in 1886.
American White Pelicans/Ted Lee Eubanks
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