Welcome to Wamego

Wamego is a growing community of 4,000 nestled along the fertile banks of the Kansas River. The pioneer fathers who carved this town from the prairie left behind a legacy of history, progressive spirit and hometown tradition.

History surrounds Wamego with reminders of the past on the Oregon Trail, and throughout the community in its beautifully restored homes and businesses. Kansas' only operating stone windmill towers above the Dutch Mill Museum Complex in beautiful Wamego City Park. The Columbian Theatre, Museum and Art Center is a renovated 19th Century opera house which exhibits six rare paintings and other artifacts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The Oz Museum features one of the largest privately owned collections of Oz memorabilia in the world.

Oregon Trail followers can walk along actual ruts left more than 150 years ago by westbound pioneers, and visit the historic Louis Vieux Cemetery near the banks of the Vermillion River where Louis Vieux, a Pottawatomie Indian, once operated the first ferry crossing along the Oregon Trail.

Recreation in Wamego includes a beautiful eighteen-hole golf course, Olympic-size swimming pool, public tennis courts, baseball and softball parks, horseshoe pits and a frisbee golf course. Nearby federal reservoirs and state lakes offer excellent respite for the avid angler.

Visit for a day or stay for a lifetime. You're always welcome at Wamego!

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2008 Cinco de Mayo Golf Tournament

Friday May 2nd, 2008 is the date set for the Cinco de Mayo Golf Tournament Fundraiser.  If you would like to donate raffle or silent auction items please contact the Chamber office at 785-456-7849.

Come sign up for a day of Golf and fun.  A Mexican dinner buffet will follow.  Put your bidding skills to the test at our silent auction.  Please fill out this form and send to the Chamber office at 529 Lincoln Ave. Wamego, KS 66547.