Get set to day-trip across Kansas this year, discovering all the brand-new attractions and events. Skydive in a wind tunnel. Welcome the trumpeted Elephants of the Zambezi River Valley. Ride the waves of Wrangler Rapids. Tour the dare-devilish Evel Knievel Museum. And more!

Already flying high, Overland Park’s newest attraction iFLY gives visitors the thrill and adrenaline rush of skydiving without plunging from an airplane. Opened earlier this year, the indoor skydiving complex outfits customers in equipment they need to fly comfortably, including flight suits, goggles and helmets. After a brief training session, flyers then get a chance to apply that knowledge to experience the sensation of skydiving in the safety of a three-story wind tunnel.

Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo will boast the third largest elephant exhibit in the country when the Elephants of the Zambezi River Valley opens Memorial Day weekend. Seven elephants will splash in the nation’s largest elephant water pool and roam the sprawling five acres, resembling Africa’s lush river valley. The immersive experience takes visitors on boat rides in the same water as the elephants and on walking paths to a viewing pavilion surrounded by elephants on all sides.

Take the plunge this summer at Long Branch Lagoon, Dodge City’s new $12 million, Western-themed water park! One of the state’s biggest aquatic parks makes waves with its Cowboy Creek lazy river, Wrangler Rapids wave pool, Doc’s Plunge Boomerango slide, Fort Splash play area, climbing wall and Chuck Wagon concessions. Situated in Wright Park, the Lagoon gets its western look from wagon wheels, covered wagon, saddles, hitching posts, tombstones, cowboy silhouettes and other rustic relics worked into the landscape.

Among the other must-sees this fall is Topeka’s new Evel Knievel Museum. You’ll find the world’s largest collection of the fearless cyclist’s authentic performance leathers, helmets, jump bikes and never-before-seen memorabilia. The permanent museum, housed at Historic Harley-Davidson of Topeka, also showcases Knievel’s first Harley-Davidson, a larger-than-life bronze and copper statue, fan letters and X-rays (the late motorcycle jumper holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the most broken bones – 433!). It’s set to open in early fall.

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