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Village West of Kansas City, Kansas
Opened 2-3-2012: Hollywood Casino at KS Speedway (Facebook)

* Map of VW, mapquest * Current VW news, events (Google) * Twitter VW news, comments: WyCoWest, VillageWestKCK, VillageWestWineFest * Twitter VW sports: SportingKC MLS soccer (previously the Wizards) at Livestrong Park | T-Bones Baseball independent minor league | KansasSpeedway NASCAR

Shopping Village West and KC, KS

Area attractions with map: Legends map

Cabela's (sporting, fishing outfitter) | The Legends Outlets | Nebraska Furniture Mart | Plaza at the Speedway (more) | many stores & restaurants | movie theaters West near I70 & 7 Hwy (Bonner Springs): KC Renaissance Festival (fall weekends)

The Legends is a 1.2 million-square-foot shopping center (opened spring 2006) at I-435 and State Avenue in Kansas City, KS

T-Rex Restaurant (2 pictures) and Legends shopping view, plus more local pictures:

Great Wolf Lodge * Nebraska Furniture Mart * Christmas at the Legends * Kansas Nascar Speedway under construction in 2001 Kansas Nascar Speedway under construction, 2001

Where to stay
Chateau Avalon | Great Wolf Lodge

Themed SUITES RESORT: Chateau Avalon Chateau Avalon is located in Kansas City's Village West neighborhood, close to Livestrong Sporting Park, Kansas Speedway, and Legends at Village West. Other nearby points of interest also include Agricultural Hall of Fame. Hotel Features. Spa amenities include spa services and massage/treatment rooms. Geared to couple's get-away.   Official web site

WATER PARK RESORT: Great Wolf Lodge Kansas City Great Wolf Lodge Kansas City is a family friendly resort located in Kansas City, close to Livestrong Sporting Park, Legends at Village West, Kansas Speedway, T-Bones, and Agricultural Hall of Fame. * Great Wolf Lodge water bucket --> indoor water park, family fun shopping, sports, food nearby Nearby WATER PARK: *SCHLITTERBAHN KC outdoor water park opened 2009, late May to early Sept No lodging, yet - more

Compare Village West (KS) motels, hotels, resorts
Candlewood Suites Speedway		MORE LOCAL LODGING: *Candlewood Suites Speedway *Country Inn & Suites by Carlson *Holiday Inn Express Village West *Hampton Inn Kansas City Village *Comfort Suites Speedway ALMOST 4 MILES AWAY: *Days Inn Kansas Speedway *Comfort Inn Kansas City

Make your room reservations here, on-line, for your next trip to the Kansas City KS or Kansas City, MO areas

* Kansas City now offers you Village West for sports, shopping, and eating including Cabela's (hunting, fishing, outdoor gear), the Kansas Speedway (NASCAR: July & Oct), KC T-Bones (Northern League baseball; May-Sept), and world class dining, shopping, and entertainment at the Legends. Phase I of the Legends opened November 2005. * Bonner Springs is just a few miles west of the racetrack with a Holiday Inn Express and restaurants at I-70 and K-7. * Shawnee - south on I-435 at Midland Drive - is great if you are bringing your bikes or want a lake (Shawnee Mission Park) setting, coming to Village West as a nearby day trip. * Lansing - Leavenworth are cities several miles north of the Village West area on K7. Hotels here give you a chance to visit historic Fort Leavenworth and Leavenworth, the oldest city in Kansas.

Schlitterbahn Vacation Village Water Resort | Twitter updates just east of VILLAGE WEST on State Avenue where the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds once were. The world-class water resort is still under construction, but opened the waterpark July 15-Sept 20, 2009. Continuing phase 1, they next plan to open several lodging components, initial shops, and restaurants along the Riverwalk. The fully integrated Schlitterbahn Vacation Village Water Resort, with tubing slides, chutes, rivers, beaches, 750,000 sq ft of retail, and over 1500 keys of lodging, is scheduled to open in the summer of 2011.

* Bonner Springs and Edwardsville are west of Kansas City Kansas along the Kaw/Kansas River | Lansing and Leavenworth with its famous Fort and peneteniary are northwest, along the Missouri River | Shawnee and other Johnson County cities are south | Kansas City, MO is east at the juncture of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. On the western border of Missouri, Kansas City, MO faces west toward the eastern border of Kansas. Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS are separated from each other for a short distance, by the Kaw (Kansas) River, where it empties into the Missouri River. The Missouri separates the two states to the north. To the south there mostly is no natural division between the two states. Interstate 70 goes east-west and I-35 goes northeast-southwest through both Kansas City MO and Kansas City KS.