Kansas City Area, Kansas
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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French Cannons
These beautiful artifacts of bygone wars remain a mystery at Fort Leavenworth. They were cast in the 1700s in Paris; the name of the foundryman and place and date of manufacture are on each piece. How or why they came to Leavenworth is unknown.
Fort Leavenworth, KS Military HistoryChildren's Museum of Kansas City
The Children's Museum is a hands-on learning center designed for families and children ages 2-8. Interactive discovery-based exhibits channel curiosity, promote problem-solving skills, and teach various aspects of art, science, history and daily life.
Kansas City, KS Learning CentersOverland Park Golf Club
One of the most popular and best maintained courses in the area, Overland Park Golf Club has 27 regulation golf holes, configured as three 18-hole courses, South, North and West, along with a challenging 9-hole Par-3.
Overland Park, KS Golf CoursesLouisburg Cider Mill
The Louisburg Cider Mill is widely known for its natural, fresh apple cider pressed right on the spot in the 120-plus year old barn. The renovated, classic, old hay barn and its attendant 80
Louisburg, KS Venue AttractionsDub's Dread Golf Course
We're going back....back in time when Jug McSpaden, creator of Dub's Dread, had a vision. That vision was to create a golf club that offered a superb design, premier playing conditions and outstanding service. Dub'
Kansas City, KS Golf CoursesKorean/Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Wyandotte County
The nation's first dual war memorial is dedicated to veterans of both the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. The marble memorial with two life-size bronze statues was formally dedicated on Veterans Day 1988
Kansas City, KS MemorialsPowell Observatory
The Powell Observatory is located just north of Louisburg far enough from the Kansas City metropolitan lights to provide clear observations. Powell Observatory has the largest telescope in a five state area. The main telescope has a 30"
Louisburg, KS ObservatoriesGardner Historical Museum
The Herman B. Foster house was built in the Spring of 1893. A classic example of Folk Victorian architecture, the house was the residence of one of Gardner's early storekeepers, a partner in the Bigelow-Foster Mercantile Company. In 1902
Gardner, KS MuseumsLeavenworth Landing Park
Located on the Missouri River, the park revives one of the major river landing sites where boats loaded and unloaded travelers and freight. The design of the Leavenworth Landing Park focuses on the role of Leavenworth as the "Gateway to the West"
Leavenworth, KS RecreationTonganoxie Community Historical Society Museum
The Tonganoxie Community Historical Society (TCHS) owns and operates 10 acres, called the Site, with four buildings. They are The Honey Valley School house, Reno Methodist Church, Fairchild/
Tonganoxie, KS MuseumsSanta Fe/Oregon Trail Junction
In a 1924 dedication of a State Historical Marker at the edge of Gardner, Senator Rolla W. Coleman called the place where the trails divide "the grand-daddy of all highway junctions." From its beginnings in 1857
Gardner, KS Landmarks