Before you begin your Mining Memories Tour, stop into Otto’s Café for a great breakfast. While you’re there be sure to ask someone about the mining history in Southeast Kansas; you’ll get the inside track you’ll need to get the day started. (More)
The “Little Balkans” are hiding a big secret, the world’s largest, in fact. Okay, Big Brutus is not really a secret, but it is the “World’s Largest Electric Shovel” and it’s Southeast Kansas’ largest tourist attraction. What a great way for your family to start a tour of the area! (More)

Start the day off in northern Crawford County just west of Arcadia and take a trip back in time to the early days of one room schoolhouse education at the Cato Historic Schoolhouse. The Cato Historical Preservation Association maintains the school and it was placed on the Kansas Register of Historic Places. (More)
The fishing day always begins early in Crawford County. Start the day by casting your line in one of the best kept secrets in all of Kansas, Bone Creek Reservoir. This great lake, on the north end of Crawford County, has been luring fisherman from all over the country for the past two decades. (More)
This potential and often overlooked part of the tourist market will get its start on the Pittsburg State University campus at the University Gallery and Harry Krug Gallery taking in the latest displays and exhibits of work from across the United States. (More)
Begin the day with breakfast at Peppermill Grill on the square in Girard and just across the street from the Memorial to Kansas Vietnam Veterans on the Crawford County Courthouse Lawn. (More)
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