Kaw Point Park is open from 7am to 10pm daily.
The ten-acre park at Kaw Point features a pavilion/plaza, outdoor amphitheater, boardwalk, and boat ramp. It also serves as the trailhead for hiking and biking trails. A number of events are hosted at the park, including speaking and reenactment events and an annual paddle craft race. Park is open from 7am to 10pm daily.
Confluence of Nations Plaza
Kiosk
The open-air Education Pavilion at the Lewis and Clark Historic Park at Kaw Point has interpretive signs about the Lewis and Clark expedition as well as a plaque describing the events of 1804. This plaza is a focal point in the 10-acre park, surrounded by the Confluence of Nations outdoor amphitheater.
Nations Flags
Flags from 19 regional Native tribes are represented here, including the Wyandot, Wea-and-Pianshaw, Shawnee, Seneca, Sac-and-Fox, Quapaw, Potawatomie, Peoria, Ottowa, Otoe-Missouria, Osage, Miami, Kick-a-poo, Kaskaskia, Kansa, Iowa, Delaware, Chippewa, Cherokee.
Brickyard
Donor bricks are used to pave the Education Pavilion Plaza. The bricks on the Confluence of Nations Plaza have been donated by individuals and corporations helping to make Kaw Point Park a valued natural setting in the otherwise industrial center of Kansas City. Unfortunately because of cost we are no longer able to have bricks engraved.
ROCK GARDENS AND WOODLAND RESTORATION:
With several Stormwater Education Grants from the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas Friends of Kaw Point Park stabilized the above the boat ramp with rock, planted several native plant gardens, added a flagstone walkway from the boardwalk to the boat ramp, and most recently accomplished a woodland restoration between the down ramp and Encampment Theater. Friends of Kaw Point Park hosts gardening/cleanup events on Saturdays once a month from March through November (check out our events page for dates.)
