Johnson County Park & Recreation District: Did You Know?

04/30/2008

Two dates have been scheduled this year for presentation of The Ali Kemp Educational (T.A.K.E.) Seminars on the playing field at Kauffman Stadium. The Kansas City Royals, 98.1 KUDL, and the Johnson Co...

04/27/2004

Shawnee Mission Park encompasses more than 1,200 acres, but officials believe the park’s greatest plant diversity occurs on an area just short of four acres.

This 3.9-acre plot is known as the ...

02/05/2003

For most people, it’s hard to imagine now-bustling Johnson County in its natural state of 150 years ago. Development and growth have all but wiped out evidence of the vast stretches of prairie which ...

08/14/2002

Every year, approximately 6,000 channel catfish are stocked into Shawnee Mission Park Lake. The fish arrive in late April or early May and are put into a rearing pond located below the lake’s dam. The...

08/14/2002

The Theatre in the Park received this distinct designation due to it’s proximity to the American Discovery Trail and was formally designated during a ribbon cutting which took place at the Theatre on ...

08/14/2002

The Kansas Forest Service keeps a list all documented state champion trees and four of those, as well as a runner-up American Holly Tree at Antioch Park, are located on JCPRD property.

The stat...

03/14/2002

It’s true! In 2000, the Kansas legislature passed a resolution so designating the JCPRD in recognition of the agency’s efforts to restore local bluebird populations. Between man, predation and competi...

03/07/2002

The monument was first dedicated on Nov. 11, 1974 and is located under the flagpole at Antioch Park, 6501 Antioch, Merriam. The original monument consisted of a marble block with a bronze plaque conta...

03/07/2002

John L. Barkley, who is the namesake of Shawnee Mission Park’s John Barkley Visitors Center, received a Congressional Medal of Honor for his service during World War I. During the early 1950’s Barkley...

03/07/2002

Started in 1980, the KCCC now draws more than 20,000 participants from more than 160 companies who compete in this month-seven week long summer event, which takes place during the months of May and Ju...

03/07/2002

The 12-acre Nelson Island is the northern terminus of the JCPRD’s Mill Creek Streamway Park and is accessible by a 130-foot bridge. Not including about a half mile of trail on the island, the Streamwa...