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Traveling to Wichita
Wichita is serviced by the Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT). The easiest way to travel from the airport to the city is to use a ridesharing service such as Lyft or Uber. Your hotel may be able to arrange for a pick up and drop, if you contact them in advance. If you are traveling from outside the United States and you are unable to use the ridesharing option, we will arrange to pick you up from the airport. There is a cab service that offers Airport pickup- http://www.bestcabsinc.com/. You should arrange your pickup and drop with them in advance.
About Wichita
Wichita, the largest city in Kansas with a population 400,000, is the county seat of Sedgwick County. Wichita has served as a trading center and meeting place for many years. The first permanent settlement in Wichita was a collection of grass houses inhabited by the Wichita Indians in 1863. J.R. Mead became the first white settler in 1864 when he opened a trading post. Jesse Chisholm pioneered the Chisholm Trail in 1865.
Wichita was incorporated in 1870. Wichita became a destination for cattle drives from Texas, which explains its nickname, "Cowtown." The original stimulus to the City's economic development was the extension of the Santa Fe Railway into Wichita in 1872. Wichita boomed as a cow town until the late 1870's when settlers fenced off the prairie and the Chisholm Trail with barbed wire, and many cattle drives shifted west to Dodge City. IN 1886, Wichita was incorporated as a city of the first class, and was established as the region's principal city.
Here is a map of Wichita.
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