Destinations · Missouri
MO · 39.0998, -94.5788
Cliff Drive, Spirit of Kansas City and Frontier Military Historic Byway are 3 of 6 signed byways within 30 miles of Kansas City, Missouri.
Understand
Kansas City has a population of 2.2 million (2020). The central city of the metro area is Kansas City, Missouri, the largest city in Missouri, with a population of over 500,000 (2020). Across the state border is Kansas City, Kansas, often called "KCK" by locals, which has a population of 157,000 (2020).
The drives · Designated roads lead.
Ordered by federal designation, then by how close each one runs to Kansas City. All-American Roads and National Scenic Byways are named by the Federal Highway Administration, not by us.
All-American Road · 26 mi out
State scenic byway · 1 mi out
State scenic byway · 1 mi out
State scenic byway · 12 mi out
State scenic byway · 23 mi out
State scenic byway · 26 mi out
Planned by the Byway engine on real roads: every stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature, and the total time counts driving and the stops themselves.
Loop 1 · 4 h window · 41 mi
3 h 36 loop · 4 stops · back by 2:35 PM. Incorporates Spirit of Kansas City.
Touches Spirit of Kansas City, Cliff Drive
Loop 2 · 8 h window · 28 mi
7 h 44 loop · 11 stops · back by 6:43 PM. Incorporates Cliff Drive.
Touches Cliff Drive, Spirit of Kansas City
Byway's engine bakes two loops from Kansas City: 4 h, 41 miles, 4 stops; and 8 h, 28 miles, 11 stops. The time counts the driving and the stops themselves.
The 8 h loop stops at Ilus W. Davis Memorial, Salvatore Grisafe Memorial, Chelsea Park, Lamar Hunt, Dick Howser, Raytown Limestone Outcrop, Saint Mary's Church, Union Prison Collapse and Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park. Each stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature.
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
The engine starts from town, weaves the byways and verified stops around it, and hands back an honest schedule — zero hallucinations.
Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.