By next spring, people will be able to rent a kayak and paddle across the lake at Veterans Memorial Park. Director of Kansas Tourism Bridgette Jobe stopped in Great Bend on Tuesday morning to present a “big check,” representing a grant for $12,200 to the Great Bend Convention & Visitors Bureau. This joint project will involve the City of Great Bend and the Great Bend Recreation Commission as well. The plan is to add a kayak rental service that will operate similar to the Bird Scooters that were in Great Bend for a couple of years. Kayaks can be checked out from a locker placed next to the lake by using an app on a smartphone. The user will be charged a fee through the app. The kayaks come with paddles and life jackets in various sizes, although one has to be 18 years old to download the app. The Great Bend Recreation Commission suggested a rental rate starting at $25 per hour, but Great Bend Convention & Visitors Bureau Director Christina Hayes said that and other details have yet to be determined. “We are trying to make it affordable and easy.”
Source: Great Bend Tribune
