The City of Wichita will close a number of public facilities on Wednesday because of the winter storm that will bring heavy snow to the area.

The closings include:

·         All Park and Recreation Facilities

·         All Golf Wichita golf courses and clubhouses. Anyone interested in registering for lessons or tournaments or purchasing a gift card may visit golfwichita.com.

·         Botanica

·         CityArts

·         Great Plains Nature Center

·         Mid-America All-Indian Museum

·         All Neighborhood Resource Centers

·         OJ Watson Park

·         Old Cowtown Museum

·         Ralph Wulz Riverside Tennis Center

·         The Wichita Art Museum

·         All Wichita Public Library locations. The Library will be extending all materials due dates and hold pick up dates to Friday, February 4 to allow customers opportunity to safely return and check out material.

Municipal Court will have normal operations but will suspend the walk-in docket for the day. Wichita Transit will run regular routes. All other City facilities will remain open with regular hours. All City facilities are anticipated to reopen on Thursday, February 3.

Passengers flying out of the Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower Airport are encouraged to check for flight delays or cancellations due to the expected winter storm at flywichita.com/arrivals-departures/.     A number of flights were canceled Tuesday evening into Wednesday.   Airlines have canceled over a thousand flights across the U.S. for Wednesday.