Vacation Rentals & Villas

There are more than 600 incorporated towns in the state of Kansas. Dwight D. Eisenhower from Abilene in Kansas was the 34th President of the United States. Amelia Earhart, first woman granted a pilot's license by the National Aeronautics Associate and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was from Atchison in Kansas. Dodge City in Kansas is the windiest city in the United States. Kansas ranks 15th in the United States in terms of area and with nearly 2.8 million people, it ranks 33rd in terms of population. The capital of Kansas is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita.

Kansas contains three climatic types: humid continental climate; with cool to cold winters and hot, often humid summers, semiarid steppe climate; with summers that are hot, often very hot, and generally less humid and winters that are highly changeable between warm and very cold, and lastly humid subtropical climate; with hot, humid summers and milder winters. You will find Kansas vacation rentals, be it anywhere in the state, surprisingly accessible; all thanks to a well connected network of road, rail and air. The Wichita Mid-Continent Airport is the largest of all the Kansas airports. Other major airports in Kansas are in Goodland, Colby, Concordia, Manhattan, Kansas City, Russell, Hays, Garden City, Liberal, Pratt, McPherson, Salina, Topeka, Lawrence, Emporia, Fort Scott, El Dorado, Winfield, Parsons, Chanute and Pittsburgh.

Rather than wasting your time worrying and trying to find comfortable accommodation on your Kansas vacation, you can relax by booking one of the many Kansas vacation rentals on offer throughout the state. Thus you can begin you Kansas exploration. You can start by visiting Scott State Park. Hidden in the western Kansas prairie, the park is a startling oasis of natural springs, deep wooded canyons, and craggy bluffs. The 1,020-acre park surrounds the 100-acre, Scott State Fishing Lake. Nature trails accommodate hikers, horseback riders, and naturalists and provide excellent opportunities to observe wildlife in natural habitats. Wild Turkey, deer, bobcat and beaver are common in the area. A horse camp area provides amenities for equestrian visitors.

Next you could explore the boundaries of space at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Centre at Hutchinson. The Cosmosphere is one of only three museums in the world to display flown spacecraft from all three early-manned space programs-Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. The Hall of Space Museum touts the actual Apollo 13 command module Odyssey, the Gemini X spacecraft and the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft. The Cosmosphere is the only museum in the world to display a flown unmanned Russian Vostok and a full-scale engineering model of the manned Voskhod. The Cosmosphere also boasts one of the largest displays of space suits in the world.

If you are ready for some wild life adventure, you can be a part of the Rolling Hills Wild Life Adventure. Here you come face-to-face with a rare white camel, an Indian rhino, a curious orangutan, an ornery aardvark or many of the other animals of the 100+ species of wildlife. Great care has been taken to provide the animals spacious and naturalistic environments throughout 60 acres of beautifully landscaped park. Well now that you have flavored a slice of the delicious cake that is Kansas, you surely are tempted to try some more; a simple solution to curb your temptation would be to chalk out a travel itinerary, choose from one of the Kansas vacation rentals available throughout the state, and head for any mode of transportation that will get you to the Sunflower State the quickest.