Well, I'm on the faculty at K-State (the other major 'industry' near Ft. Riley).
Unless it's the day before, I wouldn't hazard a guess about road conditions
in Kansas in February. You could have anything from dry roads, sunny skies
and highs in the 60's or 70's, to snow-packed icy roads with snow and highs in the single digits or rain and highs in the 40's.
For sight-seeing, Ft. Riley itself is scenic (believe it or not), and has a museum to that military moron George Custer, as well as the original Kansas Territorial Capitol. Nearby, there is the Konza Prairie, one of the last stands of tall-grass prairie, jointly run by K-State and the Nature Conservancy, which
has some very nice hiking trails (and slightly further afield the Z-Bar Ranch, another tall-grass preserve). You know about the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene. Abiliene also has a few notable mansions--one built by a 'patent medicine' (aka 'snake oil') magnate, which is well preserved, and the only restaraunt in KS outside the KC suburbs or Wichita to get written up in guidebooks, the Brookville Hotel (serving the same family-style chicken dinners made famous when the restaraunt was in the actual Brookville Hotel in a tiny town south of I-70 about an hour west of Abilene).
There are a few architecturally notable courthouses fairly nearby (Chase County, being the most famous).
The state capitol in Topeka (a little over an hour east of Ft. Riley) is worth
touring, as it has the set of John Howard Curry murals with the famous picture of John Brown as a monumental figure holding a Bible and a rifle.
That's about it for touristic things in this part of KS.
Another professor who frequents FR! (There are a few of us.)
What do you teach? Is your campus mostly liberal, or is it different in KS?
Brookville chicken dinners are great but only one scoop of Icecream?