Fall comes and goes quickly, with how fast the weather can change to icy and turn all of our beautiful fall foliage browns in a heartbeat. While you prepare to take a trip to your favorite places, we’ve got some ideas about where Kansas might be the most beautiful. Have you seen all of these gorgeous locations around Kansas during the fall?
- Bartlett Arboretum — Belle Plaine, KS
Bartlett Arboretum Facebook Arboretums aren’t common in Kansas, but it’s always a good day outdoors when you can relax and stroll through a cultivated tree garden. Who wouldn’t want to be surrounded by fall trees?
- Shawnee Mission Park — Shawnee Mission, KS
Benjamin White/Flickr This park is large and full of trees, so if you like to run or bike for fun, you’re in for plenty of room to go.
- Botanica Gardens — Wichita, KS
Botanica Facebook This beautiful garden doesn’t have a majority trees, but the whole place is always stunning in the fall. For a quick day out when the leaves are golden, this is a beautiful spot.
- Lawrence, KS
brent flanders/Flickr Much of Lawrence is lined in trees, which makes a lot of town look extra beautiful during the fall. Just a simple drive down the road can be a beautiful afternoon.
- Cross Timbers State Park — Toronto, KS
Cross timbers State Park - Kansas Wildlife, Parks & Tourism Facebook If you love hiking or fall boating, you’ll find that Cross Timbers is a dream. Tree lined waters are gorgeous in autumn shades.
- Dillon Nature Center — Hutchinson, KS
Dillon Nature Center Facebook Another beautiful nature center in Kansas, Dillon is a diamond in the rough. There’s nothing like watching ducks on the water float on reflections of the leaves above. Gorgeous!
- Oak Park — Wichita, KS
eric wittman/Flickr A little unexpected, this park in Wichita has some amazing leaves if you catch it at the right time. It’s all about timing!
- Treelines that surround fields of rolled hay.
Sarah Richter/Flickr Any old hayfield can be beautiful in Kansas, as long as the trees they use as windbreakers are turning colors with the rest of the state. Red, orange, and yellow, please!
- Fort Leavenworth Cemetery — Fort Leavenworth
The KC Kid/Flickr Even cemeteries are beautiful with some autumn colors framing the scene. Fort Leavenworth’s cemetery was already beautiful before, and only looks better now.
- Gypsum Hills — Medicine Lodge, KS
Vincent Parsons/Flick Our gorgeous red hills look even redder in the fall when foliage starts to town down the green a bit. It’s a beautiful drive, even if you don’t ride horseback.
- Konza Prairie — Manhattan, KS
Vincent Parsons/Flickr If nothing else, spending a day out hiking through the golden Konza prairie is a worthy adventure. Who wouldn’t love amber waves on their hike?
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Bartlett Arboretum Facebook
Arboretums aren’t common in Kansas, but it’s always a good day outdoors when you can relax and stroll through a cultivated tree garden. Who wouldn’t want to be surrounded by fall trees?
Benjamin White/Flickr
This park is large and full of trees, so if you like to run or bike for fun, you’re in for plenty of room to go.
Botanica Facebook
This beautiful garden doesn’t have a majority trees, but the whole place is always stunning in the fall. For a quick day out when the leaves are golden, this is a beautiful spot.
brent flanders/Flickr
Much of Lawrence is lined in trees, which makes a lot of town look extra beautiful during the fall. Just a simple drive down the road can be a beautiful afternoon.
Cross timbers State Park - Kansas Wildlife, Parks & Tourism Facebook
If you love hiking or fall boating, you’ll find that Cross Timbers is a dream. Tree lined waters are gorgeous in autumn shades.
Dillon Nature Center Facebook
Another beautiful nature center in Kansas, Dillon is a diamond in the rough. There’s nothing like watching ducks on the water float on reflections of the leaves above. Gorgeous!
eric wittman/Flickr
A little unexpected, this park in Wichita has some amazing leaves if you catch it at the right time. It’s all about timing!
Sarah Richter/Flickr
Any old hayfield can be beautiful in Kansas, as long as the trees they use as windbreakers are turning colors with the rest of the state. Red, orange, and yellow, please!
The KC Kid/Flickr
Even cemeteries are beautiful with some autumn colors framing the scene. Fort Leavenworth’s cemetery was already beautiful before, and only looks better now.
Vincent Parsons/Flick
Our gorgeous red hills look even redder in the fall when foliage starts to town down the green a bit. It’s a beautiful drive, even if you don’t ride horseback.
Vincent Parsons/Flickr
If nothing else, spending a day out hiking through the golden Konza prairie is a worthy adventure. Who wouldn’t love amber waves on their hike?
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Address: Bartlett Arboretum, 301 N Line St, Belle Plaine, KS 67013, USAAddress: Shawnee Mission Park, Shawnee, KS, USAAddress: Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, 701 Amidon St, Wichita, KS 67203, USAAddress: Lawrence, KS, USAAddress: Cross Timbers State Park, Kansas 105, Toronto, KS, USAAddress: 3002 E 30th Ave, Hutchinson, KS 67502, USAAddress: 1100 W 11th St N, Wichita, KS 67203, USAAddress: Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth, KS 66027, USAAddress: Gypsum Hills, Medicine Lodge, KS 67104, USAAddress: Konza Prairie - Nature Trail, Manhattan, KS 66502, USA
