Description
Explorer Zebulon Pike first coined the name the Flint Hills in 1806 when he entered into his journal, "passed very ruff flint hills". The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone. The largest town in the area is Manhattan, Kansas and the hills can be accessed from the Flint Hills Scenic Byway which passes through in Kansas.
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