Swope Park
Coordinates: 39°00′28″N 94°32′05″W / 39.007813°N 94.5348°W
Swope Park is an 1805-acre city park within the city of Kansas City, Missouri. It is the 29th-largest municipal park in the United States [1], and the largest park in Kansas City. It is named in honor of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, a philanthropist who donated the land to the city in 1896. In the 1,769 acres (7.16 km2), it hosts Starlight Theatre (a 8,000+ seat outdoor theater), Training Grounds for Sporting Kansas City and their reserve team affectionately namely Swope Park Rangers, the Kansas City Zoological Park, two golf courses, ten shelter houses and a host of other things, including baseball diamonds, soccer fields, a swimming pool, and a frisbee golf course.
Also located in the park is Lakeside Nature Center, which hosts many local species of animals, as well as treatment of wild Missouri native species which are brought in, that are released when they have recovered. Only a small part of the park is developed, the rest is heavily wooded. The main shelter house is located at 66th street and Swope Parkway.
The park is mentioned prominently in the fictional works of Robert A. Heinlein, who grew up in and around Kansas City. The park is also mentioned in the Tech N9ne song "Riotmaker" featuring Skatterman and Snug Brim.
Swope Park is the site to Swope Memorial Golf Course, a public golf course that hosted the 1949 Kansas City Open Invitational, a PGA Tour event.
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