Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie
Where's the tall grass? Tallgrass prairie once covered 170 million acres of North America. Within a generation the vast majority was developed and plowed under. Today less than 4% remains, mostly here in the Kansas Flint Hills. The preserve protects a nationally significant remnant of the once vast tallgrass prairie and its cultural resources. Here the tallgrass prairie takes its last stand.
23 Aug 2018
This will be a return trip list site, the day we went it was raining on and off. We started at the Visitors Center and got to take in the movie and exhibits. After a trip to the Visitors center it was on to the Ranch that is right next door to the Visitors Center. Explored around for awhile and after dodging the rain drops for a couple of hours we decided to add this to our come back list. We still want to take in a hike out to the Prairie and see what else this site has to offer.
Our 125th NPS Unit
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