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Greater Kansas City Profile

Recreation & Culture

Professional & Collegiate Sports

• Kansas City Command Arena Football Club
• Kansas City Chiefs Football Club
• Kansas City Explorers World TeamTennis
• Kansas City Royals Baseball Club
• Kansas City T-Bones Baseball Club
• Kansas Speedway
• Kansas State Wildcats
• Missouri Comets
• Sporting Kansas City
• University of Kansas Jayhawks
• University of Missouri Tigers
• University of Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos

Performing Arts

• American Heartland Theatre
• Carlson Center
• Civic Opera Theatre of Kansas City
• Coterie Children’s Theatre
• Folly Theater
• Friends of Chamber Music
• Gem Theater Cultural and Performing Arts Center
• Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
• Kansas City Ballet
• Kansas City Chamber Orchestra
• Kansas City Chorale
• Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey

• Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors
• Kansas City Repertory Theatre
• Kansas City Symphony
• Kansas Expocenter
• Lyric Opera of Kansas City
• Midland Theatre
• Quality Hill Playhouse
• Starlight Theatre
• Sprint Center
• Theatre League
• Topeka Performing Arts Center
• Topeka Symphony Orchestra
• Unicorn Theatre
• Cap Fed Park at Sandstone Amphitheater
• William Jewell College Harriman Arts Series

Museums

• Airline History Museum
• Albrect-Kemper Art Museum
• American Jazz Museum
• American Royal Museum and Visitors Center
• Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
• Frontier Army Museum
• Kansas City Museum and Planetarium
• Kansas Museum of History
• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design
• Liberty Memorial Museum of World War I
• National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame
• National Frontier Trails Center
• Natural History Museum, Univ. of Kansas
• Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
• Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
• Science City
• Spencer Museum of Art
• Steamboat Arabia Museum
• Toy and Miniature Museum
• Wonderscope Children's Museum

Special Libraries & Archives

• Black Archives of Mid-America
• Combined Arms Research Library
• Linda Hall Library of Science & Technology
• Marr Sound Archives
• The State Historial Society of Missouri
• Truman Presidential Museum & Library

 

Selected Public Access Lakes
	PARK ACRES*	LAKE ACRES
Fleming Park	5,580
Blue Springs Lake		720
Lake Jacomo		970
Prairie Lee Lake		160
Clinton Reservoir	14,225	7,000
Hillsdale Lake	8,000	4,580
Longview Lake	3,832	930
Pony Express Lake	2,820	330
Shawnee Mission Lake	1,100	150
Smithville Lake	14,000	7,200
Watkins Mill State Park	1,342	100
Wyandotte County Lake	1,500	332

*Park acreage excludes lake acreage.

Other Attractions

• American Royal Livestock, Horse Show & Rodeo
• Casinos: Ameristar Casino, Argosy Riverside Casino, Harrah's North Kansas City Casino, Isle of Capri Casino
• The City Market
• Country Club Plaza and Plaza Riverwalk
• Crown Center
• 18th and Vine Cultural District
• Festivals: American Royal Barbeque, Fiesta Hispana, FilmFest Kansas City, Plaza Art Fair, Renaissance Festival, Westport Art Fair, Wyandotte County Fair
• Gardens: Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, Powell Gardens
• Harley-Davidson Assembly Plant Museum and Tour Center
• Historic Liberty Jail and Visitors Center
• Jesse James Bank Museum
• Kansas City Zoo
• Kansas State Capitol
• Liberty Memorial National Monument
• Schlitterbahn Kansas City Waterpark
• Snow Creek Ski Area
• Union Station
• Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun

Major Media

• Kansas City Star
• Kansas City Business Journal
• Topeka Capital-Journal
• Local Television Stations: KCPT & KTWU (PBS affiliates), KCTV & WIBW (CBS affiliates), KMBC & KTKA (ABC affiliates), KSHB & KSNT (NBC affiliates), WDAF & KTMJ (Fox affiliates)

 

DEFINING THE GREATER KC METRO AREA

Kansas City is a Missouri/Kansas bi-state metropolitan area. All statistical references made to Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) include the counties of Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The greater Kansas City area also includes the adjoining Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS MSAs, as well as the Atchison, KS, Chillicothe, MO, Ottawa, KS, and Warrensburg, MO areas.