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The Overland Park Experience

Welcome to Overland Park, Kansas, host to over 2.3 million visitors a year. Overland Park is a unique blend of metropolitan amenities and suburban hospitality packaged in a fresh, contemporary setting.  Located less than 15 minutes from downtown Kansas City, Overland Park offers an abundance of attractions including over 250 restaurants, great shopping, theatres and more than 80 public parks.

All of Overland Park’s 35 fine hotels offer exceptional customer service and are conveniently located near major highways, allowing easy access to the Kansas City metro area.  The region features everything from live theater and art museums to amusement parks and a zoo.

New Theatre Restaurant, open year-round, brings Broadway-style musicals and plays with New York and Hollywood performers to Overland Park.

The 300-acre Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, also open year-round, features a natural setting with walking trails, waterfalls, colorful flowers and a variety of gardens including a children’s discovery garden, Monet garden and a legacy garden.

At the 12-acre Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead, visitors enjoy a turn-of-the-century farm including animals, birds of prey, vegetable and flower gardens, a one-room country schoolhouse, fishing pond, horse-drawn wagon and pony rides, an Indian Encampment, dairy barn, a butterfly garden and a Prairie Playground. More than 400,000 annual visitors make this one of the most popular attractions in the entire metropolitan region.

The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is the largest contemporary art museum in the four-state region and the only one in Kansas.  Frequently changing exhibitions means there is always something new to view.

Shopping is abundant in Overland Park with everything from upscale boutiques to discount retailers. Oak Park Mall is the largest indoor-shopping mall in the region with over 185 stores and specialty shops, including Nordstrom, Macy’s, Dillard’s and JCPenney. Hawthorne Plaza includes a variety of exclusive specialty stores and boutiques.  Historic Downtown Overland Park is home to quaint eateries, antique stores, art galleries and a variety of other locally-owned shops. Corbin Park has 1.1 million square feet of unique shopping and dining experiences and is anchored by Von Maur. In addition, Overland Park is just minutes away from other great shopping experiences at Town Center Plaza, The Legends at Village West, the Country Club Plaza and Crown Center.

Visitors of the area can also enjoy attending professional sports competitions including the Kansas City Royals (MLB), the Kansas City Chiefs (NFL), NASCAR, the Sporting Kansas City (MLS), and the Kansas City T-Bones (Northern League).

For groups of all sizes, the state-of-the-art Overland Park Convention Center, affords over 237,000 square feet of meeting, exhibition, banquet, pre-function and service space.  The Center also features over 60 pieces of juried original artwork from local and regional artists.

We look forward to seeing you and are confident you will want to make a return visit to Overland Park.