Missouri 2008 Official Vacation Planner - (Page 10) Missouri Welcomes Missouri Welcome Centers invite highway travelers to stop awhile and relax, to chat a bit and learn the best routes. St. Joseph — of frontier past and cultured e know that most of Springfield, 70 miles east; St. Louis, present — is an hour north and lively, you will arrive in Mis280 miles via I-44. And (say no more) diverse Columbia only two hours east. souri by automobile, Branson, which awaits only 115 miles to Rock Port is perched in Missouri’s and we want you to the southeast. breezy northwest corner, where I-29 feel confident about Kansas City anchors the western end slides down through rolling countryside. your destination and route. We’d like to of Missouri’s I-70 stretch. Take Exit 9 The Welcome Center beckons from the give you information (as much as you can near the city’s famous sports complex and Exit 110 rest area. Small-town Rock Port digest) about our five vacation regions — visit the Welcome Center where highis best known for its assortment of anor just the one you’ll be visiting. We have tique, craft and specialty shops on Main good maps and, because you’ll want to Street. Squaw Creek National Wildlife talk to real and knowledgeable peoG R E AT L O C AT I O N S , Refuge, host to migrating ducks, ple, we have them too. They’re T O N S O F I N F O R M AT I O N , N E W geese and eagles, is 30 miles south. naturally friendly, so your conSt. Joseph lies 30 miles beyond and versations will be enjoyable. All MAPS AND KNOWLEDGEABLE, Kansas City only 55 miles farther. of this happens at the seven OffiThe state’s newest Welcome Cencial Missouri Welcome Centers, F R I E N D LY S TA F F E R S ter greets southbound travelers on I-35, strategically placed where you are most between the Missouri-Iowa border and likely to enter our state. the town of Eagleville. The center reJoplin is the gateway to southwest sides on northern Missouri’s portion of Missouri. A sparkling new Welcome Cenand-wide windows afford sweeping views the “Prairie Passage,” a state and federal ter opened there in 2007, at the junction of both Arrowhead and Kauffman stadieffort to preserve native prairie remnants of I-44 and Business Route 71. A forums. Check out Harry Truman country along rural highways between Canada mer lead and zinc boomtown (it’s quiand the National Frontier Trails Museum and Mexico. An hour south of Eagleville, eter now), Joplin prospered where in nearby Independence. Don’t miss the I-35 crosses Route 36, the east-west conundulating prairie meets rugged Ozark American Jazz Museum and the Negro nector of St. Joseph and Hannibal and foothills. There are good connections Leagues Baseball Museum in KC’s 18th so-called “Highway of the Stars.” Mark here: Kansas City, 150 miles north; and Vine District. If you must move on, 10 Missouri Vacation Planner 2008 W
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