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The Unofficial Guide to the Best RV & Tent Campgrounds in the Southwest & South Central Plains features candid reviews and ratings of over 350 campgrounds in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. It includes:

• Detailed profiles and overall quality ratings of the best campgrounds for both RVers and tent campers
• Complete information on rates, hook-ups, and facilities
• Campgrounds rated for beauty, quiet, privacy, security, and amenities
• The only campground series with candid ratings for quality and value
• Easy-to-follow directions to each campground
• Tips on fun things to see and do near each campground
• Practical advice on RV repairs and maintenance

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Kansas Curiosities is your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Sunflower State has to offer. Humor columnist Pam Grout has combed Kansas for one-of-a-kind gems that make her home state truly unique. You'll see artwork fashioned solely from fossilized shark teeth, spend the local "funny money" that bears the likenesses of such Kansas luminaries as William Burroughs, and discover an underground city beneath an ordinary thrift shop. Whether you were born and raised in Kansas or are a recent transplant, Pam Grout's home-grown humor will have you laughing out loud as she introduces you to the neighbors you never knew you had and take you to the places you never knew existed - right in your own backyard. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 288 pages, b&w photos)

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Discover the region's best Driving Tours with National Geographic as your guide. Features the region's best routes and attractions, including:

• Towns and cities, historical and cultural sites, natural areas, plus many surprises
• Entertaining, insightful commentary
• Useful travel tips
• More than 120 original, color photographs
• Detailed maps for each drive keyed to descriptions in text
• Directions, mileages, and visitor information

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As soon as the Kansas Territory was opened for settlement in 1854, towns sprang up like mushrooms--first along the Missouri border, then steadily westward along trail routes, rivers, and railroad lines. Many of them barely got beyond the drawing board and hundreds of them flowered briefly and died, victims of the "boom or bust" economy of the frontier and the vagaries of weather, finance, mining, agriculture, railroad construction, and politics.

Ghost Towns of Kansas is a practical guide to these forsaken settlements and a chronicle of their role in the history of Kansas. It focuses on 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only "a shadowy remnant of what they once were," telling the story of each town's settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline.

The culmination of more than ten years of research, this new book is a distillation of the author's immensely popular three-volume work on the state's ghost towns, now out of print. Condensed and redesigned as a traveler's guide, it is organized by region and features ten maps and detailed instructions for finding each site. Twenty of the towns included are discussed for the first time in this volume. The book also contains more than 100 black-and-white photographs of town scenes.

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Everything travelers need for a great road trip--whether across the country or to a family reunion in their own state. Encyclopedic listings with to-the-point descriptions of over 25,000 hotels, restaurants, and attractions in more than 5,000 towns series-wide.

Contact information, rules of the road, scenic drives, climate charts, and more. Two-color format and alphabetical organization puts information at readers' fingertips. State and town introductions provide background, timelines offer a sense of history. Fascinating thematic boxes showcase local art, culture, and notable events. Top 10 lists of parks, golf courses, beaches, and more.

Scenic highway photos throughout get readers in the mood to hit the road. A complete 16-page atlas of detailed full-color highway maps, plus black-and-white maps covering walking and driving tours. An essential accessory for every car--useful to plan trips and a must-have on the road.

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Catherine Hauber and John Young lead you over 430 miles of trails that showcase the beauty of Kansas's woodlands and wetlands, its prairies and high plains. Their Hiking Guide to Kansas covers trails found at 56 sites in all parts of the state--both popular routes like those along Clinton Lake and out-of-the-way sites like Big Basin Prairie Preserve.

After directing you to the trailhead, Hauber points out facts of interest along the way about history, geology, and wildlife, presenting them at a level of detail that will make any outing more meaningful. She provides trail lengths for each hike, notes access for bikers or horseback riders, and clearly identifies landmarks and trail blazes. She also has made the book as inviting as the trails themselves by including dozens of full-color photos that will make you want to lace up your hiking boots right away.

Another valuable feature of the book, John Young's state-of-the-art maps, show you exactly where the trails lead. Color-keyed to physiographic regions designated by the Kansas Geological Survey, these maps were developed using measurement techniques ranging from compass and pedometer to a global positioning satellite receiver and reflect painstaking attention to each bend and feature of the trail.

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Spotlight On Wichita 2002 is the 10th edition of the national award-winning all-inclusive guide to greater Wichita, Kansas. This 336 page 37 chapter book includes over a hundred photographs, history, facts, events, information pertaining to the Wichita and surrounding area. Chapters include points of interest, neighborhoods, education, utilities, history, children & parenting, libraries, postal service, government, Kansas Day Trips, Local Internet, law enforcement, fire protection, driver's license & tags, traffic regulations, transportation, shopping, entertainment, dining & lodging, recreation, congregations, seniors, health care, disabilities, financial institutions, lawn & garden, employment, consumer issues, legal services, business & Industry, pets, weather, Kansas facts, environment, communications, calendar of events and sports.

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This detailed guide to the backroads and small towns of northeastern Kansas charts a 350-mile loop from the Kansas-Missouri border west through the majestic Flint Hills. The mile-by-mile descriptions cover the following counties: Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, Osage, Wabaunsee, Pottawatomie, Jackson, Shawnee, Jefferson, and Leavenworth. Along the way, Shortridge's commentary on the history, economy, architecture, and demographics of the region provides a rich appreciation of the landscape and encourages lingering and thoughtful contemplation.

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Whatever you do when you travel, get off the interstate. Who needs more bland rest stops and fast food? Get into the heart of things with Globe Pequot's Off the Beaten Path series. Devoted to travelers with a taste for the unique, this easy-to-use guide helps you discover the hidden places in Kansas that most tourists miss - unsung, unspoiled, and out-of-the-way finds that liven up a week's vacation, a day trip, or an afternoon.

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