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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
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- Designation
- National Preserve
- State
- KS
- Park address
- Strong City, KS
- Entrance fee
- No entrance feeNPS data as of 2026-08-25
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Nearby ParkQwest Places
- Brown v. Board of Education National Historical ParkNational Historical Park · Approximately 63 miles away (straight line)
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- Homestead National Historical ParkNational Historical Park · Approximately 128 miles away (straight line)
- Fort Larned National Historic SiteNational Historic Site · Approximately 145 miles away (straight line)
- George Washington Carver National MonumentNational Monument · Approximately 157 miles away (straight line)
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Notes
Designation Date: 11/12/1996
Tallgrass prairie once covered 170 million acres of North America, but within a generation most of it had been transformed into farms, cities, and towns. Today less than 4% remains intact, mostly in the Kansas Flint Hills. Established on November 12, 1996, the preserve protects a nationally significant remnant of the once vast tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Here the tallgrass makes its last stand.