Garden City, Kansas
Garden City is a city in Finney County in the state of Kansas. As of the 2000 census, the local population is 28, 451. With a total area of 8.5 square miles, the population density of the city is 3,334.1 per square mile.
Garden City, Kansas is home to the Lee Richardson Zoo, a 47-acre zoological facility that houses hundreds of animals from all over the world. It is purported to be the largest zoo in Western Kansas. South of Garden City, Kansas is another animal residence: the Finney Game Refuge. This wild life game reserve spans 3,670 acres of land and is home to the American Bison, deer, ground squirrels, box turtles, rabbits, quail, pheasants, mourning doves, and prairie chicken. The reserve is open for guided tours which are managed by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.
Garden City has more than sixty restaurants that offer different cuisines and about forty churches that cater to people of different religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.