Wamego

city in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, United States of America

Wamego is a small city of about 1.7 square miles in size in Pottawatomie County in the Flint Hills of Northeastern Kansas.

Understand

Wamego is most notable for its Wizard of Oz museum and themed businesses.

Get in

From Topeka, Kansas, it can be accessed by traveling West on Highway 24.

See

  • 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

  • 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

  • Toto's Tacoz. A cute taco joint in theme with the "Oz Cluster". Delicious shrimp tacos. 

Drink

  • Oz Winery. Another Oz Themed business. 

Sleep

Go next

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


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