South Central Kansas Tourism Region

26/02/2025

Join us!

You're Invited to Chamber Coffee This Thursday! ☕🍩

📅 When: Thursday, February 27th, at 10am
📍 Where: Memorial Auditorium
🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Host: National Glass Museum

Start your morning with great company, fresh coffee, and delicious donuts!

Coffee: Provided by No. 7 Coffee House
Donuts: Courtesy of Daylight Donuts - Wellington KS

Come connect with fellow community members, enjoy some treats, and kick off your day the right way. We can’t wait to see you there!

26/02/2025

Don’t miss this event!

⏰ SET YOUR CLOCKS: TICKETS SALES BEGIN SATURDAY AT 10 AM!

The 20th Anniversary Grand Finale of the Symphony in the Flint Hills Signature Event will take place Saturday, June 14, at Evans Family Ranch in Chase County. Join us as we celebrate this milestone event, complete with a breathtaking prairie backdrop, the Kansas City Symphony, and an unforgettable night with Kansas native Logan Mize!

✨ Buy early and SAVE $15 on adult admission! ✨
🎟️ Through April 13: General admission tickets are $95 for adults and $50 for children 12 and under, plus taxes and fees. Starting April 14: General admission is $110 for adults and $50 for children.

Don’t miss your chance to experience the beauty, music, and shared sense of community that make this event so special.
🔹 Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 1, at 10 A.M.
📍 Purchase online or call 620-273-8955.
🌾 Learn more: https://symphonyintheflinthills.org/signature-event/

26/02/2025

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family!

Pioneer Bluffs Friends and Family: It is with a heavy heart to post this news.

On Saturday, Josh Hoy passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. Josh was currently serving as Vice President on the Pioneer Bluffs Flint Hills Ranching Heritage Center Board of Directors. Josh was well-known for his innovative conservation accomplishments. Alongside that, he was also known for his delicious chuckwagon meals and homemade ice-cream that he served at the Day of the Cowboy event last July.

Jim Hoy, Josh's father, passed away over the weekend also. Everybody in the Flint Hills either knew or knew of Jim Hoy, professor emeritus of English at Emporia State and director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies. He was the author or co-author of nine books including Flint Hills Cowboys, Gathering Strays, and Tales from the Tallgrass Prairie.

Jim was also a founding Board Member of Pioneer Bluffs and played a profound role in establishing "Prairie Talks" at Pioneer Bluffs. He served as Vice President on the board from 2007-2013.

Jim and Josh will both be missed dearly. Pioneer Bluffs is grateful to have known and to be known by them. Together, they have left a mark that is irreplaceable and will be deeply missed by many.

Funeral arrangements are unknown at this time. Please keep the Hoy family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

26/02/2025

A great example of what can be done when individuals and concerned community members work together! Congratulations on saving this historic building!

Greenwood Hotel in Eureka, Kansas was built in 1883. Today it is an event center operated as a 501c3 by volunteers from the Greenwood Preservation Society.

26/02/2025

I’m up for this challenge!

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26/02/2025

Today our group was hosted by Chase County Chamber of Commerce at HeBrews CoffeeHouse in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas for our meeting! We had an amazing meeting! I was so busy networking and learning that I forgot to take a picture of our group! But you can bet we’ve got some fashion forward members! Thanks to everyone who makes this group amazing! we look forward to next month‘s meeting in Visit Greensburg, Kansas!

11/02/2025

Exciting news from Visit Lindsborg and the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery!

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐳é𝐧!

This Saturday, February 15, Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery is deaccessioning over 100 duplicate and other works of art from its permanent collection to raise funds for an art storage/archives/library addition. The sale will be conducted through Raymer Society Consignment Art Auction and will include two oils by Lester Raymer, seven Sandzén oils, a lithograph and a woodblock, along with 44 works by Prairie Printmakers, Sandzén students, and more.

The location of the auction is Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, 401 N. First Street. Doors open at 9:00am.

Auction options include in-person, online, phone or absentee bidding. Visit the website https://auction.redbarnstudio.org/auction/236-raymer-society-consignment/ to explore the catalog and start bidding online.

For phone bidding or absentee bidding, call the Red Barn Studio at 785-227-2217 or email [email protected].

Preview the auction online: https://auction.redbarnstudio.org/auction/236-raymer-society-consignment/

To view the collection in-person, visit the Sandzén February 7-15 during regular business hours: 10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday and 1:00-5:00pm on Sunday. Admission is always free with donations appreciated.

04/02/2025

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30/01/2025

There’s a caterpillar in the garden, and it’s 18 feet long. But don’t worry: This is not an alien invasion and your tomatoes are not at risk.

The garden is a sculpture garden. It is part of an effort to use folk art – in this case, bug sculptures - to attract visitors to a rural Kansas community.

https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/news-and-publications/news/stories/2024/08/kansas-profile-don-atha-bug-sculptures.html

Bugs Come Alive Studio

29/01/2025

Happy Kansas Day!!

23/01/2025

Makes plans to explore South Crntral Kansas! So much to see and do!

Note: Thanks to Kansas Tourism for organizing a media trip. All opinions and views are ours. Silhouetted against a back drop of Kansas’ rolling hills, a bison surveys the scenery […]

18/12/2024

Last minute Christmas shopping need not be frantic! Visit Lindsborg for welcoming faces, relaxed atmosphere, and fun events!

Christmas in Lindsborg

12/12/2024

The beautiful St. Lucia Festival marks Saturday, Dec. 14, in Lindsborg! Stay for Heritage Christmas!
Christmas in Lindsborg Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers

Need some holiday celebrations filled with gentle yet unfamiliar traditions? Lindsborg provides that perspective!

Saturday, December 14, is a day filled with the spirit of generosity found in the celebration of St. Lucia and in the Heritage Christmas tradition. Let these two offerings give you a breath of fresh air in the midst of the hustle and bustle.

Discover all that Christmas in Lindsborg contains here: https://www.visitlindsborg.com/christmas-in-lindsborg

The beauty of the season, the joy of Christmas, the friendliness in warm greetings--all this and more found in Little Sweden, USA.

05/12/2024

Snowflake parade at 11:00am, Christmas Artists' Studio Open House 10:00am-5:00pm--Saturday, December 7, is going to be a great day to be in Lindsborg!

Christmas in Lindsborg

Christmas Artists' Studio Open House, Saturday, December 7, is one of the best reasons to visit Lindsborg. Showcasing area artists in their studios with their art for sale, the Red Barn Studio Museum is the host to this unique opportunity. As noted in this NPR article, a significant piece of Christmas Artists' Studio Open House is Lester Raymer's Christmas tradition. https://tinyurl.com/3zk79h5c

Raymer created a toy for his wife every year as a Christmas gift, most toys being mechanical and all of them handmade. These marvels will be on display in the Red Barn on Saturday, December 7, and throughout the holiday season.

Walking through the Red Barn Studio Museum will inspire you to take a look again at something that is usually easily discarded: "The artist was adept at transforming ordinary items cast off by friends and neighbors. The gold embellishments on many of the toys he made, for example, are from sardine tins and cans of corn."

Get your creative juices flowing by experiencing Raymer's inventive and unstoppable creativity, and then witness how the spirit of Lester Raymer is alive and well in the art community of Lindsborg.

KCUR 89.3

04/12/2024

We still have trolley tickets available to go see the lights in McPherson. Call 620-241-3340 to reserve your tickets.

04/12/2024

McPherson CVB hosts December South Central Kansas Travel & Tourism Meeting. Santa made a quick stop and handed out McPherson Chamber Bucks to all of the attendees.