Explore North-Central Kansas

The north-central part of the state, encompassing a large part of the Smoky Hills physiographic region, offers unusually shaped rocks at Mushroom Rock State Park, huge sandstone spheres at Rock City, sandstone bluffs and caves at Kanopolis State Park, limestone fence posts of post rock country, remnants of a village occupied in the 1700s by the Kitkahahkis at the Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site, and the towering butte named for explorer Coronado, though whether his 1541 expedition reached the site is still a topic of debate.