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Country Club Plaza

The Country Club Plaza is a privately owned regional shopping center in the Country Club District of Kansas City, Missouri.

Country Club Plaza
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The place

The Country Club Plaza is a privately owned regional shopping center in the Country Club District of Kansas City, Missouri. Opened in 1923, it is considered to be the first planned large outdoor suburban shopping center in the United States and among the first regional centers to accommodate shoppers arriving by car.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Country Club Plaza

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

    The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art. In 2007, Time magazine ranked the museum's new Bloch Building number one on its list of "The 10 Best Architectural Marvels" which considered candidates from around the globe.

    1 km · art museum in Kansas City, Missouri · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Missouri–Kansas City

    The University of Missouri–Kansas City is a public research university in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. UMKC is part of the University of Missouri System and includes a medical school and a law school.

    1.6 km · American public university · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rockhurst University

    Rockhurst University is a private Jesuit university in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 as Rockhurst College, Rockhurst University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

    2 km · Private university in Kansas City, Missouri, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Linda Hall Library

    The Linda Hall Library is a privately endowed American library of STEM subjects located in Kansas City, Missouri, on the grounds of a 14-acre urban arboretum. It claims to be the "largest independently funded public library of science, engineering and technology in North America" and "among the largest science libraries in the world" with half a million items in its collection, as of 2009.

    1.4 km · privately-endowed science and technology library in Kansas City, Missouri, US · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Giralda

    The Giralda is the name of a landmark in Kansas City, Missouri. It stands 138 feet tall at the corner of West 47th Street and Mill Creek Parkway.

    300 m · tower in Kansas City, Missouri, USA · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    KCTV Broadcast Tower

    KCTV Tower is a 1,042-foot high freestanding steel lattice tower located at East 31st Street on Union Hill in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It was built in 1956 for KCMO-TV, which has been broadcast from the mast since its completion.

    3.4 km · communications tower in Kansas City, US · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

    The Diocese of West Missouri is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and a member of Province VII. It has jurisdiction over sixty counties in western Missouri running from the cities Fairfax in the north to Branson in the south and from Kansas City in the west to Fayette in the east. Its Cathedral and diocesan offices are located in downtown Kansas City.

    3.3 km · church building in Missouri, United States of America · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    National Toy and Miniature Museum

    University of Missouri–Kansas City's The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures, formerly known as the Kansas City Toy and Miniature Museum, is located on the campus of the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Opened in 1982, the museum today has the world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one of the nation's largest collections of antique toys on public display.

    1.4 km · museum in Kansas City, U.S. · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Vox Theatre

    The Vox Theatre is an event space located in Rosedale, Kansas.

    3.8 km · theater in Rosedale, Kansas City, Kansas · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Loose Memorial Park

    Loose Park is the third largest park in Kansas City, Missouri, located at 51st Street and Wornall Road. It has a lake, a shelter house, Civil War markers, tennis courts, a water park, picnic areas, and a Rose Garden.

    1.1 km · public park in Kansas City, Missouri · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Country Club Plaza

Airports
Kansas City (MCI), 31 km · Eppley Airfield (OMA), 275 km · Des Moines (DSM), 288 km
  • Omaha → Country Club Plaza
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · $8–11
  • Des Moines → Country Club Plaza
    296 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · $26–35
  • Tulsa → Country Club Plaza
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · $7–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Country Club Plaza

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Country Club Plaza. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inKansas City is served by many charter bus services, and sits on several major highways.

From Wikivoyage: Kansas City Area, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,835 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    2,205 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,342 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,452 km
  5. 05
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,465 km

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Around it

Next door to Country Club Plaza

Country Club Plaza is 7 km from Kansas City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.