LocationRiverfront Road and N. Monroe Ave. KCMOCouncil District4 |
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Park DistrictCentralYear Acquired1947 |
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Acres955.45 acres (calculated to center line of Missouri River) |
Riverfront Park has a public boat ramp for the Missouri River that can be accessed off of Riverfront Road, which connects Chouteau Trafficway with Front Street. This is a public ramp that is on Parks property and was built with a grant from the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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