Best Trails in Kansas

Love walking this trail any season. So many eagles spotted today.

Very nice park with surfaces alternating from concrete to blacktop to boardwalk.

Very scenic trail, rocky and difficult at times, will rehike often.

this trail is local for us as we live in rural Franklin county nice simple enjoyable trail.

this trail is local for us as we live in rural Franklin county so it's easy to use it's usually always clean it's just a nice simple trail.

If you’re in the Manhattan area, I’d definitely say to give it a go. The Flint Hills don’t get enough credit for how pretty they are.

It’s no mountain trail, but it’s a nice little with plenty to see.

The trail is great! However, on a Saturday afternoon the nearby shooting range was very distracting.

I like the trail itself, but the bugs were out of control. There were spiderwebs, mosquitoes, and ticks everywhere. If the bugs weren’t so bad I’d love to go back out for a trail run, it would be a really fun one to run.

I took my boys here for a short morning hike. It was nice and definitely a great trail for a short kid-friendly hike.

Marked well, trails were wet and muddy. I would have liked a better map of the several small trail options. The trail loop itself is very close to a shooting range/people that really love shooting unnecessarily for rounds at a time. At one point we felt too close to the gunfire.

Nice easy trail. We wandered off the trail a couple times to see other sights. Lots of deer tracks and lots of birds.

For the Midwest this trail has a lot going for it. It’s on a reserve with primitive camping spots dotted along this loop that overlooks the Clinton Reservoir, it goes through fields, woods and along the shore line. There’s some fun rocky terrain in quite a few places along with a few water crossings but nothing serious, there’s very little elevation but enough to get a workout. It’s very quiet except for the occasional gun shot (I believe there’s a range across the lake) but I only heard a few rounds and only came across one other couple hiking plus one guy camping. The trail is very well marked in blue, it seems to be well maintained (a tad narrow in places) and I imagine the poison ivy is fairly bad in warmer weather. The trail seems to retain moisture, it was a little muddy and even frozen slick in places but that’s part of the fun I guess. I imagine there’s a lot of wildlife out here too, saw lots of evidence of deer and raccoon so I’m sure there’s more.
I live an hour from here but will definitely make it a day trip next time and hang out longer in one of the camping spots, maybe bring lunch and a hammock?

Good for a relatively pleasant nature fix. Not yet too crowded. The water view is peaceful. Be prepared for noise pollution from 18-wheelers on the nearby highway.

Great for day and afternoon walks. Lightly populated so most of time very quite and enjoyable. Fall season is perfect time to go off pavement hiking however those trails are not marked and are overgrown in summer and ticks, spiders, poison ivy, etc. await come the warm season if wandering off pavement. Deer and Squirrels are the primary residents. Enjoy!

Ran a 3.5 out and back. nice trail for any level from recreation to running/easy hiking. great for family. differently pet friendly and the owners seemed to ensure personal where on the leases but didn't clean up dog poop

awesome

Not much of a hiking trail but great camping!

take wrong turn and you could end up on some hard trails. love it. definitely for those in better shape

beautiful

An excellent trail (unlike anything I’ve seen in Kansas in terms of vegetation and topography) that winds along tall bluffs and through unique rock formations high above a scenic lake. Be sure to take a trash bag along, as the amount of trash I’ve encountered along the trail is truly disgraceful. On a single hike we hauled out 3 plastic bagfuls of trash.

An excellent hike that is more varied than you might expect, with respectable ascents and descents, rock outcrops, and wonderful views from valley and ridge top alike (including views of Manhattan in the distance). I can’t recommend this one enough.

wouldnt do it alone but its a fun decent ride.

boring if you are a mtb. definitely for the hiker/walker/runner.

so close to home. me and the dog hike it or i mtb it

need to update markers without affcting the nature aspect. Not limited to just these 3.1 miles. beautiful.

cant wait for this trail to be extendedneven fuether south. hopefuly sooner than later.

Nice trail, good views.

Great for running.

Fun hike!

way better then west trail