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

    Understand

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

    Get in

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

    See

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    • 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

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    • 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

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

    Drink

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    • Oz Winery. Another Oz Themed business.

    Sleep

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    Go next

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    Click your heels together, there's no place like home.

    Routes through Wamego
    StocktonManhattan  W  E  TopekaKansas City
    Jct W ← becomes ← Jct E  N  S  → Jct W E → Jct W EEmporia



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