For ages, the Great Plains rolling hills and immense grasslands have been home to adventurers, artists, and outlaws, from legendary Sioux warriors Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull to Jesse James and Mark Twain.
For ages, the Great Plainsrolling hills and immense grasslands have been home to adventurers, artists, and outlaws, from legendary Sioux warriors Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull to Jesse James and Mark Twain. The Great Plains, which stretch west from Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota, are frequently described as an expanse of uniformly flat cornfields, the “flyover states” of conservative “Middle American” beliefs.
Where Are The Great Plains?
Composed of portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota, the Great Plains outside of cities provide a glimpse of what America looked like before the arrival of the white man.
Recreational Activities
Hiking in Texas’s Big Bend National Park; the Black Hills of South Dakota; and North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Big Bend National Park, Texas; Valentine, Nebraska: Whitewater Rafting and Canoeing
Cycling: South Dakota’s Black Hills National Forest; Nebraska’s Katy Trail State Park
Dude Ranches offer ranch lifestyle vacations that allow guests to participate and pretend to be cowboys or cowgirls, while organized wagon drives offer a more imaginative and pioneering historical perspective, and rodeos transform extreme ranching techniques into a wild spectator sport.
If you get a rush from seeing a storm destroy things and are willing to accept the possibility that it will destroy you, join professional storm chasers in their search for fast-moving whirlwinds. From April through August, rides are at their fastest, beginning earlier in the south; the most intense period is from April to May.
Birdwatching: in Nebraska’s North Platte River Valley, thousands of sandhill and whooping cranes roost. Crane Meadows Nature Center is the epicenter of crane ‘twitching.’