Kansas City from A-Z
Apple cider donuts, crafts, live entertainment, rides, and contests are enjoyed all season long at a fall festival. Use our complete guide to Kansas City's Fall Festivals!
Bite into the city’s signature burnt ends at one of our best barbecue restaurants … Joe’s KC, Jack Stack, Q39, LC’s, Arthur Bryant’s, Gates, or another favorite local joint.
Carriage rides through the Country Club Plaza are a signature KC experience. The best time to enjoy a ride is during the holiday season when the lights are lit.
Discover the story of your ancestors at the Midwest Genealogy Center. Guided tours for groups cover the wide variety of resources available, as well as building amenities.
Explore the ruins of early pioneer cabins at Cave Springs, a 36-acre urban nature center and historic site.
Feed camels at the Kansas City Zoo’s new camel feeding deck. Stop by and check out this interactive exhibit, which lets guests drop treats from the deck down to the dromedaries for just a quarter.
Giant sunflowers greet thousands of visitors every autumn at Grinter Farms where acres of the beautiful yellow flowers bloom in the heart of Kansas.
Hook a fish at Lake Olathe, one of the area’s newest lakes, where you may enjoy boating, kayaking or a day catching “the big one.”
Imagine you’re in outer space as you walk a scale model of the solar system on a quest to see the entire Voyage Exhibition, along Baltimore Avenue in downtown KCMO. Follow a 1-mile path, through the Crossroads District, and end in front of historic Union Station, discovering our solar system from the sun to Pluto.
Jump to new heights through the Warrior Obstacle Course or Slam Dunk Zone at Urban Air, Overland Park and Urban Air Lenexa - the city’s ultimate indoor trampoline park.
Kansas City is known as the City of Fountains, boasting more fountains than any city other than Rome. Be sure to check out some of the more than 200 fountains officially recognized by the City of Fountains Foundation.
Lace up your ice skates this winter and enjoy the city’s outdoor rink at Crown Center’s Ice Terrace.
Meet an alpaca face-to-face at Manna Meadows, an alpaca farm in Bonner Springs. Take a guided tour of the working farm.
Nose-to-nose views of historic U.S. aircraft are yours at the Airline History Museum. See the first Lockheed Constellation ever restored, a Martin 404, a DC-3 and a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar.
Oscar-winning films, holiday classics, current and retro flicks are shown at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, where your movie-watching experience is unforgettable. Catch a movie party that celebrates favorite films with games, delicious food and drink, and fun.
Play at the Johnson County Museum, where the interactive KidScape exhibit, a child-size village, fosters creative play.
Quiet is not required on the roof of the Central Library in downtown Kansas City, where you may play with a giant chess set or read a book discovered when you walk through the pages of a children’s story to explore the children’s department.
Ride a real horse-drawn sleigh during snowy Saturdays at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop, where history comes to life, and learn about early pioneers on the Kansas prairie.
Skydive indoors at iFly, where instructors give you the adventure of a lifetime. The simulation of true freefall conditions in a vertical wind tunnel makes the dream of flight become a reality.
Take a ride through downtown aboard the free KC Streetcar. For more fun, use our Streetcar scavenger hunt.
Underwater pumpkin carving is a thing, and you can watch as scuba divers carve jack-o’-lanterns at Sea Life in October.
View the city from atop the City Hall Observation Deck (Mon.-Fri., 9:00-3:00) on the top floor of Kansas City’s City Hall. It’s a great site to capture panoramic photos of the city skyline.
Wind your way through a corn maze. Discover local corn mazes in our KC Pumpkin Patch Guide.
eXit the ultimate family-friendly escape room at Paradise Park. The venue offers 45-minute escape experiences that challenge you to unravel the mystery of Sasquatch or solve a puzzle as a cyber sleuth.
Yell and cheer for Sporting KC, KC Mavericks, Royals and Chiefs as a fan of our city’s sports teams.
Zip around the city aboard a scooter (rentals available through Bird or Lime), bike (with RideKC), or take a Kansas City Segway Tour.