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2007 Schedule
of Events
Tallgrass
Prairie National Preserve is a partnership between the National
Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, and the Kansas Park Trust.
The preserve offers a variety of activities: 1881 ranch house tours,
hiking trails, prairie bus tours, and more. The historic ranch headquarters
is open daily 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except Thanksgiving, Christmas,
and New Year's Day. The Southwind Nature Trail, Bottomland Trail,
and schoolhouse area
are open daylight hours year-round.
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Year-round
Daily Activity Schedule
January
2 - December 31
The
preserve is open from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. every day of the
year,
except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
Guided house tours, self-guiding tours of the ranch headquarters
area, and a
ten-minute site orientation audio/visual presentation are
available during operating hours.
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Summer
Daily Activity Schedule
April 28 - October 28, 2007
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9:30
a.m.
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House
Tour -Year round |
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10:30
a.m.
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House
Tour -Year round |
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11:00
a.m.
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Prairie
Bus Tours daily |
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11:30
a.m.
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House
Tour -Year round |
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12:30
a.m.
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House
Tour -Year round |
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1:00
p.m.
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Prairie
Bus Tours daily |
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1:30
p.m.
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House
Tour -Year round |
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2:30
p.m.
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House
Tour -Year round |
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3:00
p.m.
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Prairie
Bus Tours daily |
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3:30
p.m.
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House
Tour -Year round |
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Prairie
Bus Tours – This 90-minute prairie tour is available
daily from from the
last Saturday in April through the last Sunday in October.
Bus
tour times – 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m.
$5.00 per adult, $3.00 age 5 –18 years, 4 and under free.
Call ahead for tour availability at 620-273-8494.
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Special
Summer Weekend Activity Schedule
June through October
Fox Creek Discovery Hike - At 10 a.m. (Sat
and Sun) on the 2nd and 4th weekends of each month from June through
October 2007 enjoy a one-hour ranger-led hike along the stream bank
of Fox Creek. Other natural history program at 2:30 p.m..
Living History Ranching Weekends - On holidays and the 1st
and 3rd weekends  of
each month from Memorial Day through October, experience daily activities
on a working ranch as you visit with living history interpreters.
Special activities may include historic cooking, music programs,
soap making, quilting, crocheting, carpentry skills, roping skills,
gardening, saddling skills, and blacksmithing.
Special interpretive program at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on (Sat and
Sun). Inquire at the information desk for daily program.
Old-time Music & Wool Spinning - 
On the 1st Saturday of each month from June through October, listen
to live music while watching living history characters spin wool
into yarn.
Lower Fox Creek School - Experience a one-room schoolhouse
on weekends from noon until 4 p.m. in May, June, September, and
October. Visit with National Park Service volunteers about the role
the school played in the early days of education on the prairie.
The school is furnished with McGuffey readers, slates, desks, maps,
and recitation bench.
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