Kansas City Urban Hiking and History Tour

This urban hike mixes a bit of all aspects of urban hikes. While your guide is sharing about the history of the area, you will see murals and experience historic neighborhoods. We also hike through forested trails in the hilly Kessler Park, walk along the hidden Cliff Drive Byway, Kansas City Museum and we see beautiful historic homes and an abandoned reservoir. Test your playful side and go down a huge adult-size slide! This urban hike is hilly & has 1 set of approximately 160 steps, so your heart rate will increase! Level- moderate

Meeting Point

PH Coffee

2200 Lexington Ave, Kansas City, MO 64124, USA

Please meet inside the coffee shop, in the main room.

What's included:

• Guided urban hike around multiple neighborhood on trails, through parks and city streets.

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours

PH Coffee

2200 Lexington Ave, Kansas City, MO 64124, USA

We start out our experience at P.H. Coffee, a local coffee shop and community space in a historic building.

15 minutes

Kessler Park

Chestnut Trafficway, Kansas City, MO 64123, USA

After walking through the Pendleton Heights neighborhood, we walk on a hilly trail through the woods of Kessler Park. We come out at the historic Cliff Drive and North Terrace Park Lake.

40 minutes

North Terrace Park Lake

2700 Cliff Dr, Kansas City, MO 64106, USA

We share about the history of this tranquil lake, see native plants and walk over a century old bridge along Cliff Drive.

5 minutes

Cliff Drive State Scenic Byway

Cliff Dr, Kessler Park, Kansas City, 64123, Missouri

We walk on this off the beaten path pedestrian only byway, surrounded by limestone rockface and trees.
After enjoy the solitude of Cliff Drive, we walk up 160 steps to get to hilly field which takes us to the Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood. We see historic mansions, some that even look like castles.

40 minutes

Kansas City Museum

3218 Gladstone Blvd, , Kansas City, 64123-1199, Missouri

We make our way to the Kansas City Museum housed in the historic R. A. Long Corinthian style mansion and get a taste of their exhibits highlighting untold stories of Kansas City.

30 minutes

The Concourse Park

200 Benton Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64123, USA

We walk through the Scarritt Renaissance neighborhood and reach the Concourse Park and explore The Colonnade. A limestone colonnade area built in 1908. While at the park we also slide down a giant slide for people of all ages!

20 minutes

Kessler Park Reservoir

Cliff Drive Disc Golf Course at Kessler Park, 2460 E Reservoir Dr, Kansas City, MO 64106, USA

We walk through the Scarritt Renaissance and Pendleton Heights neighborhood towards our starting place and make one last stop at an urban decayed gem: The Kessler Reservoir filled graffiti and plants growing wildly around it.

30 minutes