Spend a little time with us. Whether it’s enjoying our Western heritage on historic Front Street or listening to a symphony orchestra—there’s something for everyone in the Dodge City area.

A 7,000-seat indoor arena and event center, soon under construction, will offer headliner national concerts and entertainment, indoor sports and other major events. Right next door will also be the new Boot Hill Casino and Resort—the only state-run casino in Kansas.

If you like outdoor activities, join us for softball at Legends Park quad–plex or championship regional soccer nearby in some of the best outdoor sports facilities in the state. Or maybe you’ll like outdoor motorsports at Dodge City Raceway Park, the premier 3/8-mile dirt track and 1/5-mile asphalt facility in the nation.

Want more sports? How about tennis, hunting, fishing, swimming, bowling, camping, dancing or even water sports, there’s an unlimited amount of recreational activities. HorseThief Reservoir, north of Dodge City, will offer a 400-acre lake for even more water fun.

A beautifully-groomed private I8-hole golf course and country club can challenge even the best of golfers (or diners). Our I8-hole municipal course also features a driving range. Tennis can be enjoyed at our numerous city parks, college and schools. Fitness, walking and bike trails can be found around town. There are two municipal swimming pools, a public sports center and even a private racquetball, tennis, swimming and fitness club.

The city features a repertory company, 170-seat dinner theater in the historically-restored 40,000-sq. ft. Santa Fe Depot, a 1,200-seat recently-remodeled Civic Center, Carnegie Center for the Arts, several museums, traveling symphonies, concerts and even the famous 10-day Dodge City Days with the Kansas’ largest and most famous PRCA rodeo, arts and crafts shows, parades, car races, train robbery, concerts, and dances.  Or maybe join us for a few dozen more celebrations and events all year long.

Tourism is a big part of what we do. We have 18 motels with nearly 900 rooms and two campgrounds. Boot Hill Casino and Resort and a neighboring event and conference center will be adding to those numbers.

So come kick up your boots on our front porch. Your dogs are going to be a little tired if your gonna’ keep up with us.

Dodge City is home to several new and renovated schools, demonstrating the community’s commitment to education as one of its most important assets.

Dodge City recently completed Ross Elementary School to help relieve overcrowding and improve the elementary experience. The new school has 25 rooms, including four classrooms for each grade level and currently houses nearly 400 students in kindergarten through fourth grade.

With over 5,800 students in the district (Kansas Unified School District 443), nearly 1,700 students attend a new state-of-the-art High School, one of the largest in square footage in the state.

The community is working on a new middle school bond issue to provide more room for its over 800 middle school students. Over 3,250 elementary and 500 Kindergarten students attend eight elementary schools and a newly-renovated combined fifth and sixth grade center.

There is also a Pre-Kindergarten early childhood education center with Head Start program. There are also alternative High School and Adult Education opportunities.

With nearly 1,150 employees, the Dodge City school system offers quality education in updated facilities.

Centered in the breadbasket of the High Plains, the Dodge City area is home to dozens of agricultural and support industries. Taking center stage is the meat processing industry. Nearly 28% of all the beef cattle processed in the USA is done within a 90-mile radius of Dodge City.

Along with meat packing and associated food processing, the area supports hundreds of agricultural production jobs in the farming and ranching industry. Jobs range from feedlot cowboys to ag publishing, executive and administrative agricultural jobs.

Ag machinery production is also an important area industry. Hundreds of people also support the ag industry with jobs that cover everything from irrigation to electrical to ag construction.

If “ag’s your bag,” you’ve come to the right place. Dodge City is home to agriculture on the High Plains.

Dodge City and Ford County have specific strategic plans underway to become the “Entertainment Capital” of southwest Kansas.

The City of Dodge City and Ford County Government have announced the building of a large Special Event Center indoor arena, to be located on the site near the Boot Hill Casino & Resort on the west side of Dodge City.

In the works for several years and paid for by the “Why Not Dodge?” special sales tax fund, the event center indoor arena is expected to have permanent seating for over 5,000 with concert seating on the main floor bringing the total to over 7,000.

The event center, run by a national management company, is expected to host a wide variety of events including concerts, conventions, indoor sports, motor-sports such as monster trucks, wrestling, indoor rodeos and a host of other indoor events.

The entire project is paid for by local sales tax and has no effect on property taxes. Local officials expect to break ground sometime within the next few months and coordinate construction and services with Boot Hill Casino as both projects progress.

Dodge City and Ford County, Kan., lead the way in wind farm development. Already home to a 67-turbine, 110-megawatt wind farm near Spearville in eastern Ford County, development of new farms and transmission lines are underway.

From a recent story in the Dodge City Daily Globe:

The Ford County Commission … approved a conditional use permit and development plan for Western Trail Wind Project I, following a recommendation by the Ford County Zoning Board. The company has already acquired the land for the wind farm, which will be located south of Bucklin and move west toward Kingsdown as it expands.

Horizon Wind Energy project manager Mark Lawlor said his company was grateful for the county’s support.

“Ford County has been tremendously supportive of this project, as well as the landowners,” he said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. “And that’s really one of the strengths of this project and wind development in the area, is community support and understanding of the economic development that it brings.”

Commission Chairman Kim Goodnight said the project, like the Spearville wind farm before it, was good economic news for the county.

“There was no opposition at all on the wind farm when the zoning board took up the issue,” he said. “Something that there’s no negativity associated with it — that’s the good news.”

The Houston-based company is planning a wind farm capable of generating up to 400 megawatts of electricity, but has not yet determined how many turbines it will need, Lawlor said. The cost of the project is unclear, and a timeline for construction has not been set — although Lawlor said the company would like to be ready to build as early as this year.

Dodge City Medical Center is the premier physician-owned medical clinic facility in Southwest Kansas, dedicated to medical excellence with a caring and professional atmosphere.

Dodge City Medical Center has 25 doctors, one nurse clinician and a physician’s assistant—offering 13 different specialties.

Dodge City Medical Center provides physicians on call 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week and offers an Urgent Care Facility beyond regular office hours.

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With the recent completion of a cardiac care unit and medical helicopter at Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City has also quickly become a regional center for hospital services.

Dodge City boasts more doctors, nurses and medial care personnel than most other locations in the region. A full-time medical helicopter transport and twin-engine turbo-prop medical air service give fast and efficient critical medical transport  around the region.

A helicopter transport service provides direct transport from field sites to Western Plains Medical Complex, making it the fastest service available in Western Kansas. This special service also provides unique abilities to go straight to the site of medical need, especially important for service to accidents in the agricultural industry and on rural highways and roads.

Dodge City’s medical services are not only an excellent opportunity for careers, but provide peace-of-mind for Dodge City and Western Kansas residents.

Feel the excitement, live the history, experience the warmth. Surprise yourself with plenty of sunshine amid pleasant rolling hills.

Dodge City is a bustling center of business in the American heartland. Enjoy shady neighborhoods filled with historic buildings, famous landmarks and a bubbling history of colorful personalities. It could easily be your heartland home.

Experience a magical mixture of western hospitality, small-town safety, recreation, entertainment, family values and fresh, innovative growth. This progressive pioneer spirit has been the source of its inspiration. Tripling its population since 1955, Dodge City gracefully combines peaceful life on the High Plains with sound community policies that make it one of America’s most desirable hometowns.

Dodge City is Old West, New Excitement. Click away and in a few moments—you’ll learn why we know OUR TOWN should be YOUR TOWN!