Wamego
Wamego is a small city of about 1.7 square miles in size in Pottawatomie County in the Flint Hills of Northeastern Kansas.
Understand
[edit]Wamego is most notable for its Wizard of Oz museum and themed businesses.
Get in
[edit]From Topeka, Kansas, it can be accessed by traveling West on Highway 24.
See
[edit]- The Oz Museum. Features a collection of over 25,000 artifacts from the Wizard of Oz movie, on permanent loan. Also contains a gift shop, and don't forget to walk along The Yellow Brick Road outside.
- The Colombian Theatre. A music hall built in 1893 inspired by the Chicago World's Fair of that same year. It also boasts a collection of twenty original Columbian Exposition oil and distempera paintings.
- Wamego Dutch Windmill and Wamego Historical Museum, 406 4th St. Pretend you are in the Netherlands, or almost.
- Beecher Bible & Rifle Church, 1414 Lilac Ln. Limestone church built in territorial times where an abolitionist Brady Beecher worked to persuade Kansas on the path to being a free state in the days before the Civil War.
Do
[edit]- OZtoberFEST. The Wizard of Oz Museum hosts an annual OZtoberFEST on the first weekend in October. Often features cast from the original movie and hot air balloon rides.
- Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park, 29377 Mitchell Prairie Ln. Hiking among the Flint Hills and tallgrass prairie with some connections to the underground railroad/Bleeding Kansas through a colorful abolitionist Brady Beecher. Daily 6:30AM-9PM.
Eat
[edit]- Toto's Tacoz. A cute taco joint in theme with the "Oz Cluster". Delicious shrimp tacos.
Drink
[edit]- Oz Winery. Another Oz Themed business.
Sleep
[edit]Go next
[edit]Click your heels together, there's no place like home.
| Routes through Wamego |
| Stockton ← Manhattan ← | W  E |
→ Topeka → Kansas City |
Jct W  ← becomes  ← Jct  E ← |
N  S |
→ Jct W  E → Jct W  E → Emporia |