Towanda Service Center
| I-35 Towanda Service Center 6 miles southwest of El Dorado, KS 67042 Map This! |
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The I-35 Towanda Service Center is located 6 miles southwest of El Dorado, with landscaping and greenspace. Views are of the prairie on the east side, scrub woodland on the west side.
There is one historical marker: Towanda - Land of Many Waters.
[See more detail at: http://www.kshs.org/tourists/markers.htm#b, under Butler County]
There are three interpretive panesl:
- Home on the Range - with photos of prairie birds and mammels
- The Living Prairie - biological stats on the tallgrass prairie ecosystem
- Tallgrass Prairie - introduction to the tallgrass prairie system in the Flint Hills
The Towanda Service Area offers a Phillips 66 fuel retail facility, a McDonald's restaurant, Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau information, and weather kiosk.