Great Plains

“For amber waves of grain”

(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)

North Dakota

1. Theodore Roosevelt National Park (America the Beautiful quarter image)

---

South Dakota

1. Badlands National Park

2. Mount Rushmore National Memorial (America the Beautiful quarter image)

3. Custer State Park 

4. Wind Cave National Park

5. Deadwood

Honorable mentions:

• • • Crazy Horse Memorial
    • Mammoth Site
    • Jewel Cave National Monument

---

Nebraska

1. Chimney Rock National Historic Site 

2. Scotts Bluff National Monument

3. Nebraska Sandhills

Honorable mentions:

• • • Homestead National Historical Park (America the Beautiful quarter image)
    • Lincoln
    • Omaha

---

Kansas

1. Monument Rocks-Kansas Badlands

2. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (America the Beautiful quarter image)

3. Dodge City

4. Santa Fe Trail Shortgrass Prairie

Honorable mentions:

• • • Topeka – Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
    • Wichita
    • Kansas’ portion of old Route 66

---

Iowa

1. Amana Colonies

2. Effigy Mounds National Monument (America the Beautiful quarter image)

3. Des Moines

---

Missouri

1. Saint Louis – Gateway Arch National Park

2. Kansas City

3. Hannibal – Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum

4. Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park

Honorable mention:

• • • Ozark National Scenic Riverways (Alley Mill – America the Beautiful quarter image)
    • Missouri’s portion of old Route 66
    • Saint Joseph – Pony Express National Historic Trail
    • Marceline (Hometown of Walt Disney – from which Main Street USA in Disneyland is based off of)