Eight Wonders of Kansas

From the KPR Newsroom:

8 Wonders of Kansas Announced Date: January 29, 2008
The Kansas Sampler Foundation has announced the results of voting for the “8 Wonders of Kansas.” Governor Kathleen Sebelius revealed the results on Tuesday morning as part of Kansas Day ceremonies, commemorating the day Kansas became a state. It was apparently a tough decision.

“We have so many beautiful places, so many monuments, so many pieces of our history,” Sebelius told the hundreds of school children who traveled to the state Capitol for Kansas Day.

The winners were suggested, along with several other nominees, by everyday Kansans. Online voters picked the winners.

The Sunflower State’s Eight Wonders are (in alphabetical order):

The world’s largest hand-dug well, Greensburg; the Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, Barton and Stafford counties; the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene; the Kansas Cosmosphere, Hutchinson; the underground salt museum, Hutchinson; Monument Rocks and Castle Rock, Gove County; the Cathedral of the Plains, Victoria; the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and the Flint Hills, Chase County.

For more information: Kansas Sampler Foundation