You’ll Spot Folk Art In Every Color On The Kansas Flint Hills Barn Quilt Trail

Kansans love making and sharing art, especially when it comes to quilts. Have you ever heard of barn quilts, though? Follow the Flint Hills Barn Quilt Trail to see all sorts of folk art displayed high above the ground on our homes, barns, and businesses. It might be time for a road trip! Grab that map and plot out all of the points you'd like to visit, whether it's a whole trip just for barn quilts or just a few added onto a future trip.

You may have noticed that some barns and homes in Kansas have giant artwork on the front. These are barn quilts, and once you've noticed one of them, you're sure to keep seeing them everywhere here!

Anyone can make their own barn quilt or gift one, and they make great gifts for the holidays. Many of them were made in honor of a loved one, as a way to remember the beauty of their life.

This one is west of Riley, KS on highway 24.

Quilt blocks range from common themes like sunflowers to more exciting patterns and color combinations you may have never seen anywhere on a real quilt before.

Though some take a more traditional route with their quilting, others have added common Kansas symbols, like the Swedish Dala horse, just like you'd find in Lindsborg, Kansas.

Out in Riley, KS, this one is named "Prized Possession". Not all of them have names listed, but each one is a beautiful piece of art that leads to another and another.

There is a network of trails all over the country that mark down all of the barn quilts that make up the county's collection. How cool!

You can start your tour in any county, but you'll find all of the county-by-county information on the Kansas Flint Hills Quilt Trail website, where you can see the quilts online or follow the map link to plan your own route through here.

If your town has a collection of something that makes it unique compared to other towns in Kansas, let us know about it! We take suggestions at our Nomination Page.