Shawnee

Shawnee is best known within Kansas for Shawnee Town 1929, an open-air museum interpreting life in a 1920s farming community. The city occupies northeastern Johnson County on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, while the Kansas River runs north of its central districts. Shawnee Mission Park brings woodland, trails and a lake into the suburban setting and is a major local recreation area. Downtown Shawnee has a more intimate scale, with independent businesses and the museum grounds lending context to its early-20th-century past. The Missouri state line and the cultural institutions of metropolitan Kansas City are close by. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Shawnee and the Kansas City metropolitan area.

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