Hesston College’s 12th annual Explore Kansas! trip June 14 and 15 for alumni and friends of the college will venture to historical sites and places of interest in Kansas and Oklahoma.

The trip will depart from Hesston June 14 and travel to Oklahoma to visit the Cherokee Heritage Center near Tahlequah. The museum features the Trail of Tears exhibit, Ancient Village and Adams Corner Rural Village. The group will enjoy dinner at a Bartlesville, Okla., restaurant before taking in the OK Mozart Festival’s Woolaroc Ranch Outdoor Concert of the Amici New York Orchestra performing the score from “Hollywood on Parade.”

Participants will spend the night in Bartlesville. June 15 events include the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve including the country lodge ranch of Phillips Petroleum founder Frank Phillips and travel to Elk Falls, Kan., to explore the falls, Prudence Crandall history, the unusual Outhouse Tours, a visit to Elk Falls Pottery with a potter’s wheel demonstration, a restored barn and bunkhouse, a Missouri oak timbers home and early 1900s restored garden and estate. The evening will conclude with a garden party dinner and show by folk singer Clint Gilbert before returning to Hesston.

The cost of the trip is $150 per person and is limited to the first 50 people to register. Cost includes charter bus service, meals, lodging and all admission fees. Registration and full payment must be received by May 31.

To reserve a spot or for further information, call the Hesston College Alumni Office at 620-327-8109 or 866-437-7866 or email alumni@hesston.edu.