2303 Main Street 620-792-1516 www.wetlandsatgb.com The Wetlands at Great Bend offers water fun for everyone. Featuring 8 water slides, 39 spray features, a 10,000 square foot pool, and full service concessions, the Wetlands serves as a safe and fun environment for the whole family. Also available are private parties, group rates, and discount passes.
24th & Main 620-793-4160 www.greatbendks.net The Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo is home to over 100 mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects. Visitors will have an opportunity to observe many species, ranging from lions and tigers to alligators and bears. Free admission. Open 362 days of the year from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
620-793-4160 www.visitgreatbend.com Great Bend has eight community parks, featuring a public pool and aquatic center, picnic shelters, playground equipment, skate park, BMX bike park, basketball courts, tennis courts, softball fields, horseshoe pits, a fishing lake, dog park, seasonal ice-skating rink, soccer fields, and more.
4805 10th Street 620-792-5769 www.villagecinemas3.com Village Cinemas is the area’s premier, state-of-the-art movie theater with three screens – all featuring Dolby digital sound and 3D technology in a comfortable, clean environment. Coming in the spring of 2013 is a new six-screen theater complex in downtown Great Bend!
3101 N. Washington 620-793-9400 Walnut Bowl and Mini Golf is a 24-lane bowling alley with automatic scoring, cosmic bowling on Friday and Saturday evenings, and an 18-hole mini golf course.
620-793-7730 www.cheyennebottoms.net The refuge contains a 41,000-acre basin-like lowland where 19,587 acres of it are a wildlife management area that is operated by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and parks. It is considered the largest marsh in the interior of the United States and has been designated a "Wetland of International Importance." Be sure to check out the Kansas Wetlands Education Center and see all the neat exhibits, demonstrations, and gift shop!
24th & Frey 620-792-4303 Opened in 1940, the 18-hole "Golden Belt" course at the The Club At StoneRidge facility features 6,383 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71. The course rating is 71.6 and it has a slope rating of 125.
673 N. Highway 281 620- 653-4255 The 18-hole "Lake Barton" course at the Lake Barton Golf Course facility features 5,526 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 70. The course rating is 65.4 and it has a slope rating of 101 on.
Municipal Airport 620-792-9251 www.b29memorial.com During WWII, Great Bend was a B-29 Bomber training base. This memorial is a reminder to tomorrow's generation of the sacrifices made to keep the United States secure.
1401 Main Street 620-792-4221 www.bartonarts.org The center hosts regional art exhibits, consignment galleries, concerts, cinema forums, poetry, workshops and special events.
85 S. Hwy 281 620-793-5125 www.bartoncountymuseum.org The historical village contains nine buildings, including an 1871 Pioneer brick home, 1908 church, 1910 train depot, 1915 school house, a small post office, two museum buildings and an agricultural building. The museum also displays a variety of exhibits of subjects like the Santa Fe Trail, Indian Artifacts, Kansas anthropology panoramas, antique quilts, and much more.
1905 Lakin Avenue 620-792-4228 www.gbct.net The Crest Theatre host four community theatre productions a year and a wide variety of other events, including musical concerts, touring theatre, dance, lectures, and seminars.
323 SE 80th Avenue in Ellinwood, KS 620-564-0195 www.dozier-winery.com This beautiful location offers wine tasting, tours and walking trails. Visitors can enjoy a picnic or a relaxing stroll through the wooded areas adjacent to the winery.
Dick Building, Ellinwood Museum in Ellinwood, KS 620-564-2400 www.kansastravel.org/ellinwoodunderground.htm Since 1981, the city's underground tunnels have become a major attraction. In years past, one could get a haircut and bath and then travel via the tunnels beneath Main Street to the underground saloon and hotel across the street.
6 miles west of town on K-156, Fort Larned 620-285-6911 www.nps.gov/fols Fort Larned was established in 1859 as a base of military operations against hostile Indians of the Central Plains to protect traffic along the Santa Fe Trail. With nine restored buildings, it survives as one of the best examples of a fort during the Indian Wars.
Great Bend 620-792-2750 www.visitgreatbend.com/trailoflights Every year, visitors from all over the Midwest hit the trail to Great Bend, which is among the best in the nation. The Trail starts at Brit Spaugh Park's Wild lights, then continues to the "Twelve Days of Christmas" at Veteran's Park, a lighted nativity at 10th and K-96 Hwy, and finishes up on Main Street with Lafayette Lights downtown.
5944 W 10th Street 620-793-8301 http://www.visitgreatbend.com/aviaoil.htm The museum displays various phases of the oil and gas industry, including geology, drilling, well completion, production, refining, and products manufactured with oil. This building also houses the Hall of Fame that contains biographies and pictures of inductees.
3721 183rd Street in Russel, Kansas 785-483-3758 www.lasada.com LaSada offers the finest in clay target shooting and upland bird hunting. LaSada has a Championship 40 State Fully Automated Sporting Clays Course, as well as a 5-stand sporting, and trapshooting. LaSada offers Upland bird hunts for pheasants and quail.
25 miles south & 12 miles east of town 620-486-2393 www.fws.gov/quivira Located on 6,000 acres of managed wetlands and marshes, the refuge features Little Salt Marsh and Big Salt Marsh ancient basins. Quivira National Wildlife Refuge offers opportunities for wildlife observation and photography, environmental education and interpretation, hunting and fishing. Additionally bobcats, coyotes, and other mammals are often seen lurking about during the heat of the afternoon.
1349 K-156 in Larned, KS 620-285-2054 www.santafetrailcenter.org The museum features an extensive trail history, including exhibits of area Native American tribes.
1400 Main Street In 2000, a Great Bend High School graduate was recognized with a Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the microchip. Jack Kilby changed the world with his invention, and his hometown memorial can be viewed in the courthouse square named in his honor.
Barton County Community College Campus Fine Arts Building 620-792-9342 www.bartonccc.edu/gallery The Shafer Art Gallery houses a collection of intricate Western-theme bronze sculptures by internationally prominent artist Gus Shafer who grew up near Great Bend. The Gallery contains 7,900 square feet for exhibits displaying a permanent collection of more than 600 works along with various other traveling exhibits including some from the Smithsonian.