Kansas City Area Attractions

Country Club Plaza
450 Ward Parkway • Kansas City, MO 64112 • 816.753.0100
Built in 1922 to resemble a Spanish marketplace, the country's first suburban shopping center and Kansas City's premier shopping district consists of a tree-lined, 14-square-block area with more than 180 shops, dozens of restaurants and nightspots, 30-some statues and fountains, horse-drawn carriage rides, and, March through January, 40-minute Fiesta Cruises on Brush Creek.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street • Kansas City, MO 64111 • 816.751.1278
Kansas City's premier museum is especially noted for its Asian art, including T'ang dynasty bowls and Ming dynasty furniture; an outdoor sculpture garden with the largest U.S. collection of bronzes by Henry Moore; the largest public collection of works by Missouri native Thomas Hart Benton; a collection of 17th- and 18th-century European paintings; Impressionist and post-Impressionist pieces; and American art. The museum includes works by Caravaggio, Titian, Rembrandt, Renoir, Poussin, Degas, Monet, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Willem de Kooning. The airy Rozelle Court Restaurant has extended dinner hours on Friday, with live music.

City Market
Fifth and Main sts. • Kansas City, MO 64106 • 816.471.1234
In operation since the 1850s, this outdoor market is busiest on Saturday, when 150 vendors offer everything from vegetables and flowers to live chickens and T-shirts. An arts and crafts market is featured Sundays, May through August. The outdoor market is surrounded by 37 permanent indoor specialty shops, international groceries, and restaurants occupying an Art Deco building and the Arabia Steamboat Museum.

Harley Davidson Factory Tour
11401 N. Congress • Kansas City, MO 64153 • 414.343.7850 • 877.883.1450 The Kansas City plant assembles Harley-Davidson's Sportster and Dyna models, and builds Harley's newest bike and its engine, the V-Rod and liquid-cooled Revolution, from the frame up. While staying in-between the yellow lines and dodging the occasional fork truck, visitors to the plant see these processes up close, often close enough to chat with employees working the line.

The tour center features a series of displays that guide you through the various manufacturing and assembly processes and illustrate the individual and collaborative skills necessary to produce each motorcycle. You'll also have the chance to sit on current production motorcycles and visit the gift shop, which features tour-related souvenirs.

American Jazz Museum
1616 E 18th Street • Kansas City, MO 64108 • 816.474.8463
Kansas City, Missouri, the mother of swing and the nurturer of Bebop, proudly hosts the reflection of its dynamic musical heritage - the American Jazz Museum. Inside the American Jazz Museum, the essence and living spirit of jazz legends fill the atmosphere, as the story of jazz and her greatest performers is told through the sights and sounds of one the most interactive museums in the country.

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
1616 E 18th Street • Kansas City, MO 64108 • 816.221.1920
Housed under the same roof as the Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum tells the compelling story of segregated baseball, from the founding of the Negro National League just a few blocks away in 1920, until Jackie Robinson, who played for the Kansas City Monarchs, signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Science City at Union Station
30 W. Pershing Rd. • Kansas City, MO • 816.460.2020
Science City offers a hands-on all in the name of science. Children of all ages will find something to do here like digging for fossils, or landing a space shuttle in a NASA-style simulator.

Union Station
30 W. Pershing Rd. • Kansas City, MO • 64108 • 816.460.2260
Union Station is a fully renovated 1914 landmark that is Kansas City's home to a permanent rail exhibit with vintage rail cars, an interactive science center "Science City", a theatre district, fine restaurants, unique shops, and much more.

Shopping

Country Club Plaza
The Country Club Plaza is the oldest shopping in the country that attracts 10 million tourists a year. It has more than 180 stores in this 14 block area to make it one of a kind. The architecture is much a sight as the merchants. The Plaza is modeled after Seville, Spain and it is especially noted for its exceptional holiday lighting display illuminated each Thanksgiving through mid-January.

Crown Center
Crown Center contains three levels of more than 50 specialty stores located on the southern edge of downtown near Grand Avenue and Pershing Road. It also features two world class hotels and several restaurants. Crown Center Square is located right across from the shopping center and is the heart of the complex offering year round activities like the ethnic festivals, antique shows, outdoor movie series, and a pumpkin patch. East of the square is the Crown Center Ice Terrace which is the city's only public outdoor ice skating rink!

Town Center Plaza
This is "The Plaza of the South" located at 119th Street and Roe Avenue in Leawood. Town Center has many nationally known shops including several upscale specialty stores!

Village West
Village West is located in Wyandotte County in Kansas City, KS. It features the Kansas Speedway, the Great Wolf Lodge Indoor Waterpark Resort, Community America Ball Park and the Kansas City T-Bones baseball team, as well as the Chateau Avalon Hotel. It also features over 70 specialty and unique retail stores, including destination entertainment, a cinema, and many restaurants.

Golf

Tiffany Greens Golf Club
6100 NW Tiffany Springs Parkway • Kansas City, MO • 816.880.9600
This is an 18-hole par 72 golf course that has been ranked by Golf Digest as "one of the Top 10 golf courses in Missouri".

Ironhorse Golf Club
15400 Mission Road • Leawood, KS • 913.685.4653
This is an 18-hole par 72 golf course that has been ranked by Golf Digest as the "#1 golf course in the State of Kansas".

Casinos

Ameristar Casino
3200 North Ameristar Dr. • Kansas City, MO • 800.499.4961
The Ameristar Casino has over 140,000 square feet of gaming space. It is one of the country's ten largest casinos. It has a selection of more than 2,940 slot and video poker machines-with penny slots to $100 machines. It also has 92 table games with blackjack, craps, roulette, let it ride, Caribbean stud, and pai gow poker. It also has the latest specialty games and houses one of the largest poker rooms in the Midwest with 15 poker tables!

Harrah's Casino
1 Riverboat Dr. • Kansas City, MO • 816.472.7777
Harrah's is filled with exciting table games and slots. It offers you many ways to win beyond your wildest dreams! It has the latest games to the best casino classics-there is always action at Harrah's!

Isle of Capri Casino
1800 E. Front St. • Kansas City, MO • 800.THE.ISLE
The Isle offers entertaining excitement with blackjack, roulette, craps, poker, and the hottest new slots! Slots include dollar, quarter, nickel and penny!

Transportation

Avis Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc.
816.243.8110
800.331.1212

Enterprise Rent-A-Car
913.383.1515
800.736.8222

Taxicabs
Call-up phones are located throughout each KCI terminal building. There are also taxi stands at major hotels, shopping, and entertainment centers.

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