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Only in Kansas City: Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun

by Susan Parker

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While other cities have their Six Flags entertainment parks, Kansas City’s Worlds of Fun is one-of-a-kind. Built in 1973 by Kansas City sports promoters Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman, it was a stand-alone until 1995 when they sold it to Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. family of parks. Jules Verne’s book, “Around the World in Eighty Days,” is the overall theme of the park, which is divided into five areas – Africa, Scandinavia, Europa, the Orient, and Americana.

Oceans of Fun, a side-by-side water park, opened in 1985, with gigantic water slides, a wave pool and all expected trappings of a top-drawer water park.

Ride-wise, it’s everything a Six Flags or even a Disney park offers. The next best thing, I suppose is the Six Flags park in St. Louis, so a lot of people drive some distances to Kansas City to enjoy Worlds of Fun. It absolutely delivers the value for any travel, or the admission fees.


Posted in General on July 3rd, 2007

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Kansas City is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri encompassing parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is situated at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers (Kaw Point), and it sits opposite Kansas City, Kansas. It is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the most populous city in Missouri, the seventh largest city in the Midwest, and the 39th most populous city in the United States. As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 447,306. The city's municipal water was recently rated the cleanest among the 50 largest cities in the United States, containing no detectable impurities. Kansas City has more fountains than any other city in the world except Rome. The city also features more miles of landscaped boulevards than any city except Paris.

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