parks

Six state parks in Missouri now offer the vehicles, which are like wheelchairs but with a bulldozer-like track instead of wheels.

The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signs nationwide asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history. One such sign was being installed at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in Missouri, a major Civil War site.

The leader of Kansas City Parks & Recreation wants to transform Hope Lodge in Swope Park into a regional gathering place for indigenous people. Before integration, the site hosted a residential camping program for Black children.

The 100-acre tree nursery at George O. White State Forest, in Licking, Missouri, serves 13,000 customers a year — in the Show-Me State and beyond. Pawpaws are one of their most popular orders.

With a prime location on North America's migratory paths and a variety of welcoming natural spaces, the Kansas City area is full of great places for birding. Get your binoculars and head to these local and state parks, wildlife refuges and nature centers.

Former U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt was instrumental in securing funding for the project to cap a portion of I-670 downtown. But construction on the park is delayed, which means it likely won’t be completed by the 2026 World Cup.

Westwood residents voted 441 to 394 to keep the tiny park. The result puts an end to plans to sell the land to a developer for an office park and retail shops.

After years of legal fights, Westwood residents are voting in a special election to decide the fate of Joe D. Dennis Park. The small patch of land has come to encompass tensions over city power, green space, development, and First Amendment rights.

After early success as a stagecoach shop, Olathe is now classic suburbia dotted with shopping plazas and well-kept parks. Dive into the restaurant scene, history and natural splendor of this Johnson County suburb.

Beyond Pesticides is working to help cities phase out the use of chemicals like weed killers from public outdoor spaces. Advocates and organizers hope it will make communities healthier.

Earlier this December, the Kansas City Rose Society launched its Save the Pillars Campaign, which aims to raise $20,000 by the end of the year to help restore the historic stone structures in the Laura Conyers Smith Municipal Rose Garden in Loose Park.

Entitled “Fire Keepers Circle," the installation represents the route that the Potawatomi people were forced to take from Indiana to Kansas nearly two centuries ago. Dozens of people died, mostly children and the elderly.