River Market, Kansas City — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in River Market?

The Arabia Steamboat Museum sits in the market blocks. The Interstate 70 loop draws the line. Most of what Kansas City lists as an attraction stands on the far side of it, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the American Jazz Museum out beyond the loop, Barney Allis Plaza and the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception within it.

River Market keeps one museum and the water.

What is the history of River Market?

Kansas City started here. The record makes River Market the first and oldest incorporated district of the city, riverfront ground organised before anything laid out to the south, and that primacy is what the name carries. No charter year attaches to River Market itself, so the claim rests on order rather than on a date.

The Interstate 70 loop later cut the southern edge away from downtown, while the Buck O'Neil Bridge and the Heart of America Bridge came to mark the western and eastern limits.

Where is River Market?

River Market runs north of the downtown Interstate 70 loop to the Missouri River, between the Buck O'Neil Bridge on the west and the Heart of America Bridge on the east.