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

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.
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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.
- 01The 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 - 02University 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 - 03Rockhurst 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 - 04Linda 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 - 05Giralda
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 - 06KCTV 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 - 07St. 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 - 08National 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 - 09Vox Theatre
The Vox Theatre is an event space located in Rosedale, Kansas.
3.8 km · theater in Rosedale, Kansas City, Kansas · Wikipedia - 10Loose 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
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Getting to Country Club Plaza
- Airports
- Kansas City (MCI), 31 km · Eppley Airfield (OMA), 275 km · Des Moines (DSM), 288 km
- Omaha → Country Club Plaza82 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · $8–11
- Des Moines → Country Club Plaza296 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · $26–35
- Tulsa → Country Club Plaza77 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · $7–9
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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.
- 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.
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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.
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