Celebrate Pirate Month in Kansas City

Sailing the seven seas, fighting sea monsters, searching for buried treasure … the adventure, the mystery, the loot! Children love tales of pirate adventures. This summer, take your buccaneers on an adventure in Kansas City.

Pirate-Themed Adventures

• Worlds of Fun & Oceans of Fun: Ride the Sea Dragon at Worlds of Fun ... one of the most fun giant swings you’ll ever experience. The Fury of the Nile, Viking Voyager, Flying Dutchman and Nordic Chaser also feature boats. With waves of fun from mild to wild, Oceans of Fun offers amazing fun for everyone in the family. Extreme water slides appeal to thrill seekers, and kiddos love our pint-sized slides, geysers and fountains at Crocodile Isle.
• Kanga’s Indoor Playcenter: This indoor attraction is a young child’s dream come true. With tunnel play, rock wall climbing, giant slides and a pirate ship ride, kids have a blast at Kanga’s. The Pirate Ship Ride, a classic carnival ride, offers a gentle swing and is a great introduction to amusement rides for kids.
• Sea Life Kansas City: This attraction transports guests into an amazing underwater world with up-close views of more than 5,000 sea creatures! Walk through the 180-degree underwater tunnel, come face to fin with sharks and rescued sea turtles, and explore more than 12 breathtaking exhibits. Stingray Bay, Sea Turtle Rescue Center and Doodle Reef, an interactive exhibit where kids design their own fish, are favorites.

Play on a Pirate Ship

Several parks in the metro offer wonderful pirate ship-themed playgrounds for kids. These are perfect settings for parties and everyday play.

• Olathe’s Frontier Park is the home of a pirate ship playscape. This park is guaranteed to capture the imagination of your little buccaneers!
• Shawnee’s Listowel Park is known as “Pirate’s Park” among neighborhood kids. The playground is equipped with a pirate ship with a captain’s wheel, flag and sails.  
• Lee’s Summit’s Williams-Grant Park features a pirate ship playground.

• Frontier Park

  Amenities include a pirate-themed playground, two softball fields, a soccer field, a basketball goal, and access to the Indian Creek Trail.

• Kanga's Indoor Playcenter and Cafe

  Open 7 days a week, America’s newest indoor play venue offers kids hours of running, climbing, jumping, and sliding through incredible play spaces.

• Listowel Park

  Listowel Park features 8.4 aces of parkland including a playground, swings, roller hockey courts, a baseball/softball field, and a 0.4 mile walking trail.

• Oceans of Fun

  With waves of fun from mild to wild, Oceans of Fun offers AMAZING for everyone in the family. Extreme water slides appeal to thrill seekers and kiddos love our pint-sized slides, geysers, and foundations at Crocodile Isle.

• Sea Life Kansas City

  This aquarium experience will get you up close and face-to-face with amazing underwater creatures such as sharks, octopus, our green sea turtle named Gertrude, stingrays, sea stars, seahorses, jellyfish and thousands of colorful fish! A favorite a...

• Williams Grant Park

  This 4 acre park at 4th and Howard streets was a gift from Joseph A. Grant in 1973. There is a picnic table, multi purpose field and a .25 mile trail. This park features a pirate ship themed playground and plenty of shade.

• Worlds of Fun

  Kansas City’s amusement park with 235 acres of family rides, thrill rides, and waterslides, including seven world-class rollercoasters and admission Oceans of Fun, the city’s first waterpark.