Hiking Kansas: Smoky Valley Ranch
The Nature Conservancy
Smoky Valley Ranch combines an 18,000-acre working cattle ranch with native grasslands and a wildlife refuge.
Main Library
625 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66101
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Mr. & Mrs. F. L. Schlagle Library
4051 West Drive
Kansas City, KS 66109
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Also open 9:00 am-5:00 pm on the 3rd Saturday of each month.
South Branch Library
3104 Strong Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66106
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Turner Community Library
831 S 55th Street
Kansas City, KS 66106
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West Wyandotte Library
1737 N 82nd Street
Kansas City, KS 66112
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Smoky Valley Ranch combines an 18,000-acre working cattle ranch with native grasslands and a wildlife refuge.
Turkey Creek Stream Trail is just a short 10-mile drive from Kansas City, Kansas. Take the 75th Street exit from I-35; the exact GPS location is 7497 Kings Cove Dr., Merriam 66204.
Big Bull Creek Park is about a 40-minute drive on I-35 from downtown Kansas City, Kansas. It is one of the newer and largest parks at the southwest edge of neighboring Johnson County, Kansas, between Edgerton and Gardner.
Most hikers in our region are waiting for cooler fall weather and the first frost that kills the ticks and sends snakes into hibernation to start the hiking season.