In Great Bend, the Best Western Angus Inn, Great Bend, Kansas, is a convenient base in central Kansas, with spacious rooms featuring high-speed internet, cable television, a microwave, a refrigerator, and a coffee maker, plus an indoor pool, a sauna, an exercise room, a game room, two on-site dining options, and meeting space for up to 200. The hotel welcomes pets. The setting puts a wildlife refuge and a vast wetland close by for birdwatching, with a community college, historic underground tunnels, a zoo, and a county museum nearby. Migrating flocks fill the marshes each spring and fall. Great Bend takes its name from the broad northern arc of the Arkansas River in central Kansas, on the old Santa Fe Trail. Northeast of town lie Cheyenne Bottoms and the Quivira refuge, among the most important inland shorebird marshes in the Western Hemisphere, where hundreds of thousands of cranes, shorebirds, and waterfowl pause on migration across the plains.