With some awesome road trip options available in the surrounding area, having your own car makes good sense. Without one, it wouldn’t be half as easy to enjoy everything that Topeka, 30 miles away, has to offer. Topeka Performing Arts Center, Kansas State Capitol and Kansas Museum of History alone make the drive out here worthwhile. Locals will also probably point you in the direction of Lawrence, 30 miles away. If you can only find time for one thing here, let it be Allen Fieldhouse. (But we’d also recommend Lawrence Arts Center and Lied Center of Kansas.)