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Features a fun outdoor aquatic center (Blaisdell Pool), a small train, a rose garden, walking trails, baseball diamonds, playgrounds, a greenhouse, a dog park, and an amphitheatre with occasional music performances.
Gage Park is a city park of 164 acres (0.66 km2) in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It was established in 1899 and is one of the largest parks in Topeka. It features the Topeka Zoo, the Kansas Children's Discovery Center, a miniature train of 15 in gauge, the Helen Hocker Theater, the Blaisdell family aquatic center, and the Reinisch Rose Garden. The 70-year-old rose garden is a popular place for weddings and events, and also a place where serious horticultural work is done.
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A quaint community blackbox theatre, regularly puts on plays and musicals, and specializes in children's camps.
An exceptional zoo with a living rainforest. There is a giant park area, carousel, and train just outside of the zoo gates.
Fegularly puts on musicals, plays, and comedy acts featuring talented local performers.
This 183,000-sq-ft (17,000 m2) building may be one of the greatest libraries around, and is popular with people from across Kansas and out of state. There's a great selections of all media types including books, movies, music and periodicals. It also houses local art and screens classic movies for free.
On the campus are creative displays of students' sculpture projects.
Take the #5 West 6th Bus along 6th Street to the Society.