Travel Information for Missouri Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Missouri attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Missouri state park, this is where you will find it.
MISSOURI’s past is not locked up in the cold print and fading images of history books. Across the state, some 300 historic districts allow visitors to see, touch and walk around in the state’s history. But Missouri has something for everyone. There are beautiful state parks, rivers and caves throughout the state.
BRANSON/LAKES, America's live entertainment capital, has more theater seats than Broadway and features entertainers performing everything from music to magic; Silver Dollar City is an 1880s theme park where guests experience state-of-the art rides, true, old-fashioned Americana and Ozark history.
EUREKA is home to two fun attractions: Six Flags St. Louis and Yogi Bear’s Yellowstone Park.
Sir Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946 at Westminster College, FULTON; the Churchill Memorial Museum contains Churchill memorabilia and other exhibits.
HANNIBAL is the boyhood home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens - the famous Mark Twain; attractions include the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, the Optical Science Center and Museum and The Haunted House on Hill Street Wax Museum.
INDEPENDENCE is known as the Queen City of the Trails: It is home to the National Frontier Trails Center which presents the history of the Santa Fe, California and Oregon Trails; the 1859 Jail, Marshal's Home & Museum once housed Frank James, Jesse James' notorious brother, who was treated like a hero and showered with gifts throughout his incarceration; other attractions include Historic Independence Square where pioneers and emigrants outfitted themselves for their journeys west, and the Harry S. Truman Home & Library/Museum also known as the Summer White House.
The well-preserved historic downtown of JEFFERSON CITY offers several points of interest, from shops and cafes to the Governor's Mansion and majestic Capitol Building.
Known as the "Heart of America", KANSAS CITY offers a number of attractions including the Arabia Steamboat Museum, and the city’s jazz centered 18th and Vine Historic District with the American Jazz Museum; The Science City Union Station houses three theaters and a ride simulator and five unique districts to explore; there’s outdoor fun at the Oceans of Fun waterpark and the Worlds of Fun theme park.
A serpentine lake twisting through Ozark hills, Lake of the Ozarks has over 1,150 miles of shoreline, swimming, boating, water-skiing and fishing, caves, golf courses, and country-music shows, malls, and factory outlets.
Missouri’s third largest city SPRINGFIELD has a special offering of natural attractions and sport facilities; visitors can take a 5-mile drive through the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield and then visit General Sweeny's Museum of Civil War History, one of the largest collections of Civil War artifacts in the country; other attractions include Discovery Center, Exotic Animal Paradise, Fantastic Caverns, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, and the Wonders of Wildlife Living Museum & Aquarium.
St. CHARLES was Missouri’s first state capitol and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is there; its Historic South Main Street has 1769 cobblestone streets and unique shops.
With a past sprinkled with fur traders, Native Americans, pioneers, prosperous merchants, outlaws and, of course, the legend of the Pony Express, attractions in historic St. JOSEPH include the Jesse James Home Museum where Jesse James was killed, the Hall Street Historic District, the Pony Express Museum and the Glore Psychiatric Museum – "one of the 50 most unusual Museums in the country".
Home to the Mississippians, a mighty Indian civilisation of mound builders, and European explorers, St. LOUIS is rich in historical attractions, cultural traditions and wildlife adventures such as the Wild Canid Survival & Research Center, an internationally-recognised captive breeding facility for endangered wolves. The Gateway Arch – Jefferson National Expansion Memorial soars 630ft. complete with museum and theater, and Union Station St. Louis, once the world's largest and busiest railroad terminal, is now a restored National Historic Landmark with over 100 shops and restaurants; other historical attractions include the Historic Daniel Boone Home & Boonesfield Village, Boone’s final home along with an early 1800's living history village, the Lewis & Clark Center hands-on museum, and the Old Courthouse, scene of the Dred Scott slavery trial; museums in St. Louis include Black World History Wax Museum, City Museum, Concordia Historical Institute which has the world's largest collection on the history of Lutheranism in America, Historic Samuel Cupples House, an 1888 mansion with gargoyles, Tiffany glass, fine and decorative art, Deutschheim State Historic Site and Museum depicting 19th century German immigrant and German-American life, folk art, customs, traditions, culture and heritage, the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum, two great sports museums in one place, Scott Joplin House where the ragtime legend composed “The Entertainer”; The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog, The Saint Louis Art Museum, the Fine Arts Palace of the 1904 World's Fair; and the collection of 150 vintage autos at St. Louis Car Museum & Sales; the Anheuser-Busch Brewery Tours include the historic Brewhouse, Budweiser Clydesdale stables, lager cellar, packaging plant and hospitality room; fun sites include the Missouri Botanical Garden, Darkness Haunted Theme Park with hi-tech special effects, Raging Rivers Waterpark, and Mid-America Aquacenter, St. Louis Children's Aquarium where kids can pet a shark; there are more than 600 free exhibits, an OMNIMAX Theater, planetarium and full-size animated dinosaurs at the St. Louis Science Center; the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site and Interpretive Center is the site of the largest prehistoric Indian city north of Mexico.
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