Kansas City Parks by Radius

National Park Service

Brown V Board Of Education National Historic Site
This National Historic Site commemorates the landmark Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools. The site consists of the Monroe Elementary School.

Buffalo National River
The Buffalo River is one of the few remaining unpolluted, free-flowing rivers in the lower 48 states offering both swift-running and placid stretches. The Buffalo National River encompasses 135 miles.

Effigy Mounds National Monument
The monument contains 2,526 acres with 195 mounds of which 31 are effigies. The others are conical, linear and compound. Natural features in the monument include forests, tallgrass prairies, wetlands and rivers.

Fort Larned National Historic Site
Fort Larned was established in 1859 as a base of military operations against hostile Indians of the Central Plains, to protect traffic along the Santa Fe Trail and as an agency for the administration of the Central Plains Indians. With nine restored buildings, it survives as one of the best examples of Indian Wars period forts.

Fort Scott National Historic Site
All of the sites 20 historic structures, its parade ground, and its five acres of restored tallgrass prairie bear witness to the era when the United States was forged from a young divided republic into a united and powerful transcontinental nation.

Fort Smith National Historic Site
Fort Smith National Historic Site embraces the remains of two frontier forts and the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas. Commemorating a significant phase of America's westward expansion, it stands today as a reminder of 80 turbulent years in the history of Federal Indian Policy.

George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver's boyhood home consists of rolling hills, woodlands, and prairies.

Harry S Truman National Historic Site
Harry S Truman National Historic Site includes the Truman Home in Independence, Missouri, and the Truman Farm Home in Grandview, Missouri. Harry S Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States, lived here from 1919 until his death.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site buildings and grounds are preserved to commemorate the life of the 31st President of the United States.

Homestead National Monument of America
The Homestead Act of 1862 was one of the most significant events in the westward expansion of the United States. By granting 160 acres of free land to claimants, it allowed nearly any man or woman a chance to live the American dream.

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial consists of the Gateway Arch, the Museum of Westward Expansion, and St. Louis' Old Courthouse.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Abraham and Mary Lincoln lived here from 1844 until Mr. Lincoln's election to the Presidency in 1861.

Nicodemus National Historic Site
This area preserves, protects and interprets the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War.

Oklahoma City National Memorial
Oklahoma City National Memorial honors the victims, survivors, rescuers and all who were changed forever on April 19, 1995.

Ozark National Scenic Riverways
Ozark National Scenic Riverways was created to protect 134 miles of the Current and Jacks Fork Rivers in the Ozark Highlands of southeastern Missouri.

Pea Ridge National Military Park
Pea Ridge National Military Park is a 4,300 acre Civil War Battlefield that preserves the site of the March 1862 battle that saved Missouri for the Union.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is a new kind of national park. The preserve protects a nationally significant example of the once vast tallgrass ecosystem.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
The park commemorates the life, military career, and Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. The site, also known as White Haven, consists of 9.65 acres holding five historic structures (main house, stone building, barn, chicken house, and ice house).

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site protects and interprets the site of the Southern Cheyenne village of Peace Chief Black Kettle that was attacked by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George A. Custer. The controversial strike was hailed as a significant victory aimed at reducing Indian raids on frontier settlements. Washita remains controversial because many Indians and whites labeled Custer's attack a massacre.

Wilsons Creek National Battlefield
The battle fought here on August 10, 1861, was the first major Civil War engagement west of the Mississippi River, and was a Confederate victory. With the exception of the vegetation, the 1,750 acre battlefield has changed little from its historic setting.

Bureau of Reclamation

Arcadia Diversion Dam

Cedar Bluff Reservoir

Cheney Reservoir

Davis Creek Reservoir

Kirwin Reservoir

Lovewell Reservoir

Webster Reservoir

USDA Forest Service

Mark Twain National Forest

McPhee Reservoir

Fish and Wildlife Service

Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge

Cache River National Wildlife Refuge

Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge

Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge

Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge

Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge

Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge

Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge

Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge

Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge

Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuge

Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge

Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge

Mingo National Wildlife Refuge

Quivira National Wildlife Refuge

Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge

Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge

Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge

Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge

Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge

Washita National Wildlife Refuge

hiking-trails

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site buildings and grounds are preserved to commemorate the life of the 31st President of the United States.