Keeper of the Plains
A 13-meter steel sculpture of a Native warrior by Blackbear Bosin, located at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers, surrounded by walkways and stone fire rings that are lit at night.
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In the destination Wichita and southern Kansas.
In the photo: Downtown Wichita and the Arkansas River seen from above
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The city
Largest city in Kansas, where the Little Arkansas flows into the Arkansas River, known for its aircraft industry. It features the Keeper of the Plains sculpture, the Old Cowtown Museum, the Kansas Aviation Museum, the Sedgwick County Zoo and the Botanica botanical garden, as well as the Old Town neighborhood with historic brick warehouses.
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The local experience
A 13-meter steel sculpture of a Native warrior by Blackbear Bosin, located at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers, surrounded by walkways and stone fire rings that are lit at night.
A 19th-century riverside village with dozens of houses, shops, a saloon, school and farm, and interpreters in period clothing who demonstrate life in Wichita during the cattle-driving era.
An aviation museum in the 1935 art-deco terminal of Wichita’s former municipal airport, with planes built in the city, historic rooms and the Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame.
Wichita zoo of about 100 hectares with animals from several continents, featuring a large elephant area, a boat ride and a children’s farm.
Botanical garden next to the Old Cowtown Museum, with about thirty themed gardens, a children’s garden, a Japanese garden and collections of roses, prairie plants and butterflies.