For more than a decade, paranormal enthusiasts, brave travelers and those who like otherworldly diversions have been flocking to Atchison, intent on exploring its rich haunted history.
ONLY 15 MINUTES FROM ATCHISON! OPERATIONS Snow Creek is open mid-December through mid-March. During the winter season, skiing and snowboarding activities are available 7 days a week; days, nights, and midnights. Snow Tubing is available Thursday & Friday nights, as well as, the weekends. Snow Creek observes 3 holiday periods:...
The Glacial Hills Scenic Byway gets its name from the rolling hills and rock-strewn valleys carved by ancient glaciers. The receding ice left behind a beautiful landscape and highly fertile farmland. On July 4, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition celebrated the first Independence Day of their journey near what is now...
Providence Hill Farm is a small family farm located in Atchison, Kansas. We breed purebred Nubian dairy goats and sell milk from our farm, make farmstead cheeses, soap, lotion and other bath and body products. We have a brick oven for Artisan bread.
The Atchison Santa Fe Freight Depot, built in 1880, is a masonry building constructed with quarry-faced ashlar stone of contrasting corner quoins and fenestration surrounds. The building has two main sections - a two-story office on the west end and a one-story freight section on the east. The building was...
In the legacy of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum will educate, inspire and empower all generations in the pursuit of flight. In the summer of 2016, the Atchison Amelia Earhart Foundation acquired Muriel, the last remaining 1935 Lockheed Electra 10-E aircraft in the world – the...
Located in Atchison, Kansas, on forty acres of rolling hills, in a Benedictine environment of a praying community, the Sophia Center provides an ideal setting for prayer and reflection.
Benedictine is a four-year, Catholic, co-educational and residential liberal arts college on 100 acres overlooking the Missouri River. Elizabeth Hall, formerly Freshman Hall, built in 1892 and the school’s first residential building, is a notable landmark.
