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Swope Park is a city park in Kansas City, Missouri. At 1,805 acres (7.30 km 2 ), it is the 51st-largest municipal park in the United States, and the largest park in Kansas City. [ 1 ] It is named in honor of Colonel Thomas H. Swope , a philanthropist who donated the land to the city in 1896.
I-435 Northern border with Wyandotte County south through Shawnee and Lenexa to K-10 then east through Overland Park and Leawood to the Missouri border; I-635 Starts in Johnson County at I-35 and enters Wyandotte County/Kansas City, KS less than 1000 feet later.
Thomas Hunton Swope (October 21, 1827 – October 3, 1909) was an American real estate magnate and philanthropist in Kansas City, Missouri. His death in 1909 became the focus of one of the most publicized murder trials in the early 20th century.
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Kippie R. House, 54, and Darryel L. Pennington, 52, both pleaded guilty to felony possession of a firearm after shooting at House’s ex-boyfriend’s family on June 18, 2023 in Swope Park.
The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium is a 202-acre (82 ha) zoo founded in 1909 and is located in Swope Park at 6800 Zoo Drive, Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States.The zoo has a Friends of the Zoo program to help promote the work of the zoo which sees over one million visitors a year.
Sporting Kansas City II is a MLS Next Pro club affiliated with Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer.For the 2022 season they will play their home games at Rock Chalk Park at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.
Roeland Park is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, [1] and located within the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 6,871. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]