Best Day Trips From Kansas City - April 2024

Day Trips® from Kansas City: Getaway Ideas For The Local Traveler (Day Trips Series)

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Kansas City. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Kansas City metro area. With full trip-planning information, Day Trips from Kansas City helps make the most of a brief getaway.

• ASIN: 0762779349
• ASIN: 0762779349
• ISBN: 0762779349
• Brand: Brand: GPP Travel
• Manufacturer: Globe Pequot

Day Trips from Kansas City: Getaways Less Than Two Hours Away (Day Trips Series)

Enjoy a welcome change of pace and discover a world you may not know exists in your own backyard. Day Trips describes hundreds of fascinating and exciting things to do (many free of charge) and most within a two-hour drive of Kansas City. Have a close encounter with birds and mammals at the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge. Examine their tracks or observe the animals themselves across 7,000 acres of man-made marshes. Learn about the history of the Pony Express at the Pony Express Museum. State-of-the-art exhibits and hands-on displays help tell the dramatic story of one of the first expres... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0762701730
• ASIN: 0762701730
• ISBN: 0762701730
• Brand: Brand: Globe Pequot
• Manufacturer: Globe Pequot

Day Trips from Kansas City, 15th: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler (Day Trips Series)

This guide features more than 200 adventure-packed destinations and activities within a two-hour drive of Kansas City, including exploring Missouri's 5,000 caves; looking for migratory birds in Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Area; or experiencing a live theater performance in a century-old boiler room in St. Joseph, Missouri.

• ASIN: 0762747749
• ASIN: 0762747749
• ISBN: 0762747749
• Manufacturer: GPP Travel

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award “Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal “Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books “Absorbing…Winning…The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buck’s voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Bryson’s comic tone in A Walk in the Woods.” —... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451659172
• ASIN: 1451659172
• ISBN: 1451659172
• Brand: Buck Rinker
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Butcher's Crossing (New York Review Books Classics)

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friends... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590171985
• ASIN: 1590171985
• ISBN: 9781590171981
• Brand: New York Review of Books
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

The Illustrated Route 66 Historical Atlas

The definitive, fully illustrated state-by-state atlas of the shifting alignments, historic sites, and current points of interest along the United States' beloved Route 66.Route 66 changed immensely in the six decades between its opening in 1926 and its removal from the U.S. highway system in 1985. Since that time, Route 66 has enjoyed a renaissance, and interest in America's Mother Road as both a historical byway and a travel destination continues to grow. In this unprecedented volume, prolific Route 66 author Jim Hinckley presents an illustrated Route 66 atlas that explores the road's histor... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0760345430
• UPC: 752748345430
• ASIN: 0760345430
• ISBN: 0760345430
• Brand: Voyageur Press MN
• Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

Ballparks: A Journey Through the Fields of the Past, Present, and Future

If you love baseball and the venerable stadiums its played in, you need this definitive history and guide to Major League ballparks of the past, present, and future. With a tear-out checklist to mark ballparks you’ve visited and those on your bucket list, Ballparks takes you inside the histories of every park in the Major Leagues, with hundreds of photos, stories, and stats about:  Storied parks like Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Dodger StadiumFan favorites AT&T Park, Camden Yards, PNC Park, Safeco Field, and so much moreForgotten treasures like Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman’s ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0785836160
• ASIN: 0785836160
• ISBN: 0785836160
• Manufacturer: Chartwell Books

Lidia's Commonsense Italian Cooking: 150 Delicious and Simple Recipes Anyone Can Master

From one of the most beloved chefs and authors in America, a beautifully illustrated collection of 150 simple, seasonal Italian recipes told with commonsense cooking wisdom—from the cutting board to the kitchen table. As storyteller and chef, Lidia Bastianich draws on anecdotes to educate and illustrate. Recalling lessons learned from her mother, Erminia, and her grandmother Nonna Rosa, Lidia pays homage to the kitchen sages who inspired her. Whether it's Citrus Roasted Veal or Rustic Ricotta Tart, each recipe is a tangible feast. We learn to look at ingredients as both geographic and cu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385349440
• ASIN: 0385349440
• ISBN: 0385349440
• Brand: Knopf Publishing Group
• Manufacturer: Knopf

Traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail (Falcon Guide)

This guide is an in-depth look at how to get the most out of a visit to the historic Lewis and Clark Trail. The best sites to see and activities to do along the way are given, as well as maps, itineraries, and local resources for lodging and dining.

• ASIN: 0762744375
• ASIN: 0762744375
• ISBN: 0762744375
• Manufacturer: Falcon Guides

Day Trips from Kansas City, 14th: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler (Day Trips Series)

Explore one or more of Missouri's 5,000 caves; look for migratory birds in Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Area--a 7,000 acre refuge in Kansas; or experience a live theater performance in a century-old boiler room in St. Joseph, Missouri. This guide features more than 200 adventure-packed destinations within a two-hour drive of Kansas City.

• ASIN: 0762740302
• ASIN: 0762740302
• ISBN: 0762740302
• Manufacturer: GPP Travel

Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Join birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before. On remote country roads, over terrain vast and spectacular, from dawn to dusk and sometimes through the night, you will gain a deep appreciation for the natural symphony of birdsong many of us take for granted. Come along and marvel at how expressive these creatures are as Kroodsma leads you west across nearly five thousand miles―at a leisurely pace that enables a deep listen.Listening to... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691166811
• ASIN: 0691166811
• ISBN: 0691166811
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings

• ASIN: 0374524173
• ASIN: 0374524173
• ISBN: 0374524173
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America

“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a la... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416535349
• ASIN: 1416535349
• ISBN: 1416535349
• Manufacturer: Free Press

Eiffel's Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris's Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World's Fair That Introduced It

The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Époque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design share the spotlight with the celebr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143117297
• ASIN: 0143117297
• ISBN: 0143117297
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein's perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038533303X
• ASIN: 038533303X
• ISBN: 038533303X
• Brand: Paterniti, Michael
• Manufacturer: Dial Press

Day Trips from Kansas City : Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler - Paperback

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Kansas City. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour

• UPC: 17761127