Kansas City Area

The Kansas City area serves up some of the most incredible contrasts. Cosmopolitan Kansas City communities and suburbs stretch across rolling hills and steep bluffs, while quiet river towns lounge on wooded banks of the Missouri River. Here’s the place to indulge your taste for variety. From first-class dining and professional theater to hot concerts and first-rate sports. Explore history and take in the museums. Or take home your own treasure from a wealth of shops, boutiques and antique stores. Get carried away at a festival. You’re bound to carry away some great memories when you visit the Kansas City region.

Somewhere between here and nowhere.

The spaces in between are often the most memorable.

Bonner Springs

In the Bonner Springs area you'll find some of the hottest attractions in the Kansas City area. Whether you choose to take in the sounds from America's top musicians at…

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Cities to Explore

Let it unfold.

Not everything needs to be scheduled to be meaningful.

Basehor

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Start early. Stay late.

The edges of the day tend to hold the best experiences.

Lenexa

The Shawnee Indian tribe called this area home from roughly 1825-1860, before moving on to…

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The road is the experience.

Getting there is often the point, not just the outcome.

Gardner

With its own settlement roots dating back to 1857, Gardner, Kansas holds a unique distinction…

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A place to slow down.

Not every stop needs to be busy to be worth your time.

Kansas City

There's a place on the northeast border of Kansas where the Missouri River meets the…

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The road is the experience.

Getting there is often the point, not just the outcome.

Fort Leavenworth

Fort Leavenworth was established on May 8, 1827, by Colonel Henry Leavenworth and 188 officers…

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Let it unfold.

Not everything needs to be scheduled to be meaningful.

Leavenworth

Leavenworth, the "First City in Kansas," established in 1854 is located on the west banks…

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Worth the stop.

Some places don't need much time, just the right moment.

Louisburg

Just below the banks of a small tributary, now known as Rabbit Creek, near a…

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More road, less rush.

There's no need to hurry through something worth experiencing.

Lansing

The community of Lansing was incorporated as an official city of Kansas in 1959, but…

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Explore a County Wyandotte County 2 cities  ·  4 counties in Kansas City Area

Home to 150,000 midwesterners, Wyandotte County is sprawled over 111 square miles of fertile Kansas riverbank where the Kansas and…

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Explore a City Basehor 0 attractions  ·  16 cities in Kansas City Area Browse all cities →