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.

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The next turn is often where things start to get interesting.

Gardner

With its own settlement roots dating back to 1857, Gardner, Kansas holds a unique distinction among American cities. Setting at the major intersection of the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails,…

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Keep moving.

Even slow progress opens up new places and perspectives.

Kansas City

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

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Find your way.

There's no single right route, just the one that fits you.

Bonner Springs

In the Bonner Springs area you'll find some of the hottest attractions in the Kansas…

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The road is the experience.

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

Lenexa

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

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Stop when something catches your eye.

Those moments tend to matter more than the planned ones.

Leavenworth

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

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Leave room for the unexpected.

The best parts of a trip rarely show up on an itinerary.

Lansing

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

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Go where you feel alive.

Pay attention to the places that pull you in without explanation.

Louisburg

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

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Go where you feel alive.

Pay attention to the places that pull you in without explanation.

Basehor

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Somewhere between here and nowhere.

The spaces in between are often the most memorable.

Fort Leavenworth

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

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Explore a County Johnson County 6 cities  ·  4 counties in Kansas City Area

Traders and settlers heading west would have been just one day out of Independence or Westport, Missouri, when they came…

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Explore a City Kansas City 25 attractions  ·  16 cities in Kansas City Area

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

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