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Flint Hills Discovery Center


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The Flint Hills Discovery Center offers a large variety of experiences to the day or more traveling public. Groups large and small as well as those coming to visit or looking for something to do or see for an afternoon getaway, weekend outing or spending a bit more time in exploring the area --- this is a great place to help you put together an experience to remember.

The Flint Hills Discovery Center contains permanent and temporary exhibits, classrooms and meeting rooms, a store and beautiful outdoor terraces and landscaping. It will be open 363 days a year and serve as the visitor
information center for Manhattan and the surrounding Flint Hills region.


Phone: 785-587-2729
Our Website:www.flinthillsdiscovery.org

Come visit us in Manhattan, Kansas

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Riley County Historical Museum

Take a peek at the past through changing exhibits on Riley County history and in the photographs, manuscripts, letters, diaries and records of our research library. Included in the Museum Complex is the 1855 prefabricated Hartford House, the Randolph Jail, and the Goodnow House.

Manhattan, KS Museums

Wolf Butterfield House Museum

The Wolf Butterfield House served as a way station for the Butterfield Stage Line started by David Butterfield in 1865. The limestone house contained dining and sleeping faciltities as well as a tavern for stage line patrons.

Manhattan, KS Museums

Pottawatomie Lake #2

State Fishing Lake No. 2.is located about four miles northeast of Manhattan. Pottawatomie Lake #2 is a scenic lake of about 75 acres that holds nice populations of crappie, largemouth bass and bluegill. The lake also produces impressive strings of channel catfish and holds some very nice walleyes.

Manhattan, KS Recreation

Hartford House

The Hartford House that sets adjacent to the Historical Society Museum is a restoration of a prefabricated house that the early settlers brought to Manhattan in 1855

Manhattan, KS

Riley County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places the dominating limestone Courthouse was completed in 1906, built by Topeka contractor, J.B. Betts, and local contractor, Clarence Johnson. The citizens pledged $1,000 for the tower clock.

Manhattan, KS Historic Courthouses

Things to do Environmental Centers near Manhattan, KS

Flint Hills Discovery Center

The Flint Hills Discovery Center offers a large variety of experiences to the day or more traveling public. Groups large and...