The Field Atlas
All terrains

State chapter

Wild places in Kansas

This atlas lists 4 prairie plates in Kansas, including Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Little Jerusalem Badlands, and Monument Rocks.

Kansas has 4 plates in this atlas across prairie and badlands country.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas — Fall wildflowers in the tallgrass, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas
FrontispieceTallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas

Photo: NPS · Public domain

Plates
4

Top picks

Best prairie in Kansas

  1. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas
  2. Little Jerusalem Badlands, Kansas
  3. Monument Rocks, Kansas
  4. Cimarron National Grassland, Kansas

Kansas

The plates

Fall wildflowers in the tallgrass, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, KansasPlate CLIII

prairie38.4° N · 96.6° W

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Flint Hills, Chase County, Kansas

A sea of grass the plow never reached.

Open plate →

A chalk keyhole and prairie sky, Little Jerusalem BadlandsPlate CCLXIII

prairie38.8° N · 100.9° W

Little Jerusalem Badlands

Smoky Hill chalk, Logan County, Kansas

A chalk city the prairie hid.

Open plate →

White chalk towers against a Kansas sky, Monument RocksPlate CCLXIV

prairie38.8° N · 100.8° W

Monument Rocks

Chalk Pyramids, Gove County, Kansas

Chalk pyramids the wheat country forgot.

Open plate →

Rocky shortgrass under a Kansas sky, Cimarron National GrasslandPlate CCLXIX

prairie37.1° N · 101.9° W

Cimarron National Grassland

High Plains, Morton County, Kansas

Kansas grass that still remembers a trail.

Open plate →