Penn Valley Park
Penn Valley Park is an urban park overlooking the Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The 176-acre park was developed in 1904 on land through which the Santa Fe Trail had passed.Places of Interest
Highlights include National World War I Museum and Memorial and Penn Valley skatepark.
National World War I Museum and Memorial
Park
The National World War I Museum and Memorial is located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Opened in 1926 as the Liberty Memorial, it was designated by the United States Congress in 2004 as the country's official museum dedicated to World War I.
Penn Valley skatepark
Pitch
Penn Valley Skatepark is one of the more recent additions to the park, and is also known as Kansas City Skate Plaza because of the similar appearance of a "plaza-type" Skatepark.
Kansas City Union Station
Railway station
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Kansas City Union Station is a union station that opened in 1914, serving Kansas City, Missouri, and the surrounding metropolitan area. It replaced a small Union Depot built in 1878.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hospital Hill and Westport.
Hospital Hill
Neighborhood
Hospital Hill is a neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri. The neighborhood is located between 22nd Street to 25th Street and Gillham Road to Troost Avenue.
Westport
Suburb
Photo: Iknowthegoods, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westport is a historic neighborhood and a main entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri. In the early 19th century, West Port was settled by a group led by American pioneer and tribal missionary Reverend Isaac McCoy, who brought his son John Calvin McCoy as surveyor, and his son-in-law Reverend Johnston Lykins who bought the land. Westport is situated 1½ miles south of Penn Valley Park.
Quality Hill
Neighborhood
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Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the West Bottoms below. Quality Hill is situated 1½ miles north of Penn Valley Park.
Penn Valley Park
- Type: Park
- Description: urban park in Kansas City, Missouri, US
- Categories: urban park and recreation area
- Location: Jackson County, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.07674° or 39° 4′ 36″ northLongitude
-94.59069° or 94° 35′ 27″ westElevation
906 feet (276 metres)Open location code
86F73CG5+MPOpenStreetMap ID
way 132573650OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
“Penn Valley Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Penn Valley Park”
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