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Driving roads in Kansas
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Kansas

Kansas driving roads cross far more varied terrain than its plains reputation suggests, from rolling tallgrass in the Flint Hills to red canyons and mesas in the Gypsum Hills. Elsewhere, glacially shaped hills, limestone country, wetlands, and long open prairie roads create a distinctly spacious driving landscape.

11
Roads
1107 km
Total Road Distance
7 /100
Avg. score

Driving Roads in Kansas

Explore scenic and exciting driving roads across Kansas.

Flint Hills Scenic Byway
Flint Hills Scenic Byway
United States
8 /100
75 kmUS
Frontier Military Historic Byway
Frontier Military Historic Byway
United States
10 /100
275 kmUS
Glacial Hills Scenic Byway
Glacial Hills Scenic Byway
United States
9 /100
100 kmUS
Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway
Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway
United States
4 /100
66 kmUS
Historic Route 66 - Kansas
Historic Route 66 - Kansas
United States
6 /100
18 kmUS
Native Streetone Scenic Byway
Native Streetone Scenic Byway
United States
12 /100
78 kmUS
Post Rock Scenic Byway
Post Rock Scenic Byway
United States
7 /100
25 kmUS
Prairie Trail Scenic Byway
Prairie Trail Scenic Byway
United States
4 /100
90 kmUS
Smoky Valley Scenic Byway
Smoky Valley Scenic Byway
United States
4 /100
97 kmUS
Western Vistas Historic Byway
Western Vistas Historic Byway
United States
8 /100
159 kmUS
Wetlands And Wildlife Scenic Byway
Wetlands And Wildlife Scenic Byway
United States
3 /100
124 kmUS

Driving in Kansas

The Flint Hills are the defining scenic-driving region in eastern Kansas, where K-177 between Cassoday and Council Grove follows the Flint Hills National Scenic Byway through undulating tallgrass prairie and ranch country. In south-central Kansas, U.S. 160 forms the Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway between Medicine Lodge and Coldwater, passing red soils, buttes, canyons, and mesa-like formations unusual for the central Great Plains. Northeast Kansas becomes hillier along the Glacial Hills Scenic Byway, while central and western routes cross the Smoky Hills, limestone outcrops, reservoirs, broad agricultural valleys, and increasingly open High Plains. The Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway adds a different driving environment around major marshes and migratory-bird habitat. Kansas roads are generally less mountainous and technically demanding than routes farther west, but their long sightlines, rolling two-lane highways, geological contrasts, and well-established byway network reward slower road-trip exploration.