SALINA, KAN. - Need another reason to get out? Get mobile. Stroll your city.
From November 1–7, 2026, Salina is joining communities across Kansas to celebrate the sixth annual Kansas Mobility Week, a statewide effort to promote accessible, safe, and sustainable transportation and mobility options.
"And this is a great thing for parents to do with their kids, with caregivers to do with their kids. It's free," said Leslie Bishop, Exec Director with Salina Downtown Inc. "It also gets maybe people downtown. Because once kids wanna come back downtown, they'll want to bring their parents back. So it's a win-win."
- Story Walk in Downtown Salina: November 1–7, enjoy a free, family-friendly Story Walk featuring Duck on a Bike by David Shannon. Start at Redefine Nutrition and follow the story page by page while exploring downtown on foot. This activity is a partnership between Salina Downtown, K-State Extension, and Bike Walk Salina, celebrating literacy, active transportation, and local businesses during Kansas Mobility Week
"So this gives us another opportunity to give another kind of walk, but also give us a chance to work with K-State Extension on their story walks," said Michelle Coats who is the Director of Mobility Management for North Central Kansas. "This is just a different way of thinking about downtown and the different things they can do down here."
"It's a really great walkable, bikeable neighborhood. So it's great for families, for kids to come here. It's safe, the sidewalks are great. With the re-design they did a lot of traffic calming and improvements to help the flow. So downtown is great place for those type of events."
Bishop says this is a great excuse to get back downtown.
"So downtown Salina this is a great way to get people here that wouldn't normally come," said Bishop. " Because of this idea that downtown is more expensive and it just is not. Also you are supporting your local neighbor, your family that has a kid on your ball team. But this kind of thing just brings people downtown that normally wouldn't come. We have great programming, we have great landscaping, it's clean. We have live music. All of our events with the exception of two are open to the public. We have First Fridays. We have Farm and Art Market that just finished up this year. We have great businesses that something for everyone. We have over 13 restaurants, I could go on and on. Salina downtown does great things."