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.

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 of the Missouri River. It became nationally known as the "jumping off point" for the…

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Cities to Explore

Not every place needs a reason.

Sometimes it's enough just to be there.

Fort Leavenworth

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

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A small detour can turn into something worth remembering.

Basehor

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Find your way.

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

Lansing

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

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Pause when it feels right.

Some stops aren't on the map, but they're worth taking.

Louisburg

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

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Take less, experience more.

What you carry matters less than what you notice.

Lenexa

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

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Stay curious.

A small detour can turn into something worth remembering.

Bonner Springs

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

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Stop when something catches your eye.

Those moments tend to matter more than the planned ones.

Gardner

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

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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 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 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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