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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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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Stay a little longer.

Rushing through a place rarely does it justice.

Fort Leavenworth

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

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Leave room for the unexpected.

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

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.

Basehor

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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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Bonner Springs

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

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Stay curious.

A small detour can turn into something worth remembering.

Lenexa

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

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Let it unfold.

Not everything needs to be scheduled to be meaningful.

Kansas City

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

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Explore a County Leavenworth County 5 cities  ·  4 counties in Kansas City Area

The land where Leavenworth and Fort Leavenworth are located today was originally inhabited by the Kansa, Osage and Delaware Indians…

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Explore a City Fort Leavenworth 19 attractions  ·  16 cities in Kansas City Area

Fort Leavenworth was established on May 8, 1827, by Colonel Henry Leavenworth and 188 officers and men of the 3rd…

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