Living and working in Garden City offers great opportunity and quality of life. Now ranked as the seventh most popular tourist attraction in Kansas, the Lee Richardson Zoo is home to more than 95 different domestic and foreign animal species that total over 265 individual animals. Ongoing expansion and renovation make exhibits exciting and comfortable for animals and people alike. The Zoo and Finnup Park are an important part of the superior quality of life that Garden City residents and visitors enjoy. The Garden City Municipal Swimming Pool is more than one half of a city block in size, contains 2.8 million gallons of water and has the distinction of being the world's largest, free, concrete, municipal swimming pool.
Garden City is host to numerous craft shows, gun shows, antique shows and auctions.
In The Park is held. This craft show has become one of the favorite hometown festivities for thousands of people. It's an event no one wants to miss. Garden City has seven beautiful parks, located throughout the city, that are dedicated to family fun and youthful recreation. Garden City offers two public golf courses, one of which is Buffalo Dunes, ranked by Golf Digest to be in the top 100 courses in the U.S. Southwind Country Club, an 18 hole, private course, ranks in the top five in Kansas.