Kansas Visitor's Guide 2007/2008 - (Page 45) S NEAK AND PEEK are not as shy as their names a puppet show. Visitors browse suggest, but Kavi and Raguno are every bit as exotic more train equipment and as their names sound. You can introduce your kids photographs at the restored to Sneak and Peek, female black bears, in the Hill’s 1927 Great Overland Station. Black Bear Woods at the Topeka Zoo in Gage Park. The old-fashioned Potwin Kavi and Raguno are a pair of rare Sumatran tigers Drug Store serves sodas and ice who just took up residence in the jungle cat compound cream at the Old Prairie Town at two years ago. This compact zoo also features a 100Ward-Meade Historic Site. foot-wide glass dome containing a steamy rain forest. After a Downtown, Kansas State Capitol murals stroll, let the kids ride the colorful horses of the 1908 depict the Sunflower State’s history. Outside, a bronze carousel just across the park. Kanza warrior tops the copper dome. For the first time The zoo provides a departure from much of the family in 37 years, visitors now can climb the 296 steps inside fun in this city of 122,000 along the Kansas River (60 the dome to the top. A few blocks west, grab one of miles west of Kansas City). Topeka is the state capital BoBo’s famous hamburgers with the works. and, as you might expect, it excels at showcasing the In Lawrence (26 miles east), turn the kids loose on the state’s history and heritage. beach at 7,000-acre Clinton Lake. The surrounding park At some point during your visit to the Kansas includes several miles of paved bicycling and walking trails. Museum of History, the penetrating explanations of Haskell Indian Nations University, founded in Lawrence in the exhibits you’re providing the kids are apt to be 1884, welcomes visitors to its cultural center. The American interrupted by the shrill sound of the steam Indian Athletic Hall of Fame honors Olympians Jim Thorpe and whistle of an 1880s Atchison, Topeka and Santa Billy Mills, along with other noted Haskell athletes. Fe (AT&SF) Railroad locomotive. You can tell Overnight guests sample life on a 1,200-acre cattle spread at the kids that the AT&SF and other railroads the Circle S Guest Ranch north of Lawrence. The ranch features opened this vast prairie state to settlement longhorn cattle, buffalo, hiking trails and luxurious rooms. and transported its wheat and cattle to If Topeka’s railroad exhibits fired your imagination, grab a seat on a a hungry nation. Kids also can crawl into a vintage Midland Railway train for an 11- or 24-mile train excursion tepee, try on pioneer clothes and stage from the 1906 depot in Baldwin City (12 miles south of Lawrence). (Clockwise, from top) BoBo’s hamburger stand in Topeka. The Capitol dome. Girl fun at the Circle S Guest Ranch near Lawrence. For FAMILIES LAWRENCE/TOPEKA
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