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Oceans of Fun is a tropically themed water park that opened on May 31, 1982, in Kansas City, Missouri, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the adjacent Worlds of Fun amusement park. When it opened, it was the largest water park in the state of Missouri. It is owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
Worlds of Fun, is a 235-acre (95 ha) theme park located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation , it was founded by American businessmen Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman under the ownership of Hunt's company, MId-America Enterprises in 1973.
Swope Park, a 1,805-acre city park containing many other facilities. [3] Kansas City Zoo, 10th largest zoo in the US; Lakeside Nature Center, large, city-operated wildlife rescue and nature center with exhibits and woodland trails in Swope Park. Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun amusement parks.
Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. The city lies within Jackson, Clay, Platte counties, and a small portion in Cass County. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035.
Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park is a 330 acres (130 ha) state park in Logan County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is owned by The Nature Conservancy and located about 25 miles (40 km) south of Oakley and a similar distance north of Scott City .
The Kansas City area is a confluence of four major U.S. interstate highways: I-29 – North to St. Joseph, Missouri; I-35 – North to Des Moines, Iowa and south to Wichita, Kansas; I-49 – South to Joplin; I-70 – East to St. Louis and west to Topeka, Kansas; Other interstates that cross through the area include:
Spring River, Kansas. Nearly 75 mi (121 km) of the state's northeastern boundary is defined by the Missouri River.The Kansas River (locally known as the Kaw), formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri River at Kansas City, after a course of 170 mi (270 km) across the northeastern part of the state.
Schlitterbahn Waterpark Kansas City was a water park in Kansas City, Kansas. It was announced in September 2005 by Schlitterbahn Waterparks and opened on July 15, 2009. It was conceived as a 370-acre (150-hectare) and $750 million development including a nearly 40-acre (16-hectare) waterpark, which was Schlitterbahn's fourth waterpark and its ...