Great Bend’s draw is Great Bend Zoo
From Great Bend, the big name within reach is Fort Hays, 46 mi away. We list one place to visit inside Great Bend and another within 40 miles. There are a zoo & aquarium and a national historic site to choose from. Some 21K visitors a year come to Fort Larned National Historic Site.
Fort Hays
Was a United States Army fort near Hays, Kansas.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
What’s around Great Bend
The list reaches out to Fort Larned National Historic Site, 25 mi away.
Orange: Great Bend. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
All of them, one by one
It starts in town with one place and goes on to 5 within 60 miles.
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4Fort Larned National Historic Site
National Historic Site of the United States.
6Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Natural history museum in Hays, Kansas.
The places inside Great Bend lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.
Photo credits
Fort Hays: IveGoneAway, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center: Patrick Pelletier (Ppelleti (talk)), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Larned National Historic Site: Nathan King / National Park Service, Public domain · Sternberg Museum of Natural History: FUBAR007, CC0
