Loose Park – Kansas City, MO – Fall 2020: Wandering Walks of Wonder Slow TV Walking Tour 4K

To get my latest walking guidebooks and journals: https://amzn.to/3mqDZJJ Interactive Map of all my walking videos: https://bit.ly/2HQSpDS Instagram:   / wanderingwalksofwonder   Facebook:   / wanderingwonderwalking   At 75-acres, Jacob L. Loose Park is one of Kansas City’s most popular, beautiful and historical. The park is well-known locally as being a major site for the Battle of Westport where Confederate forces were routed by Union forces in the area in which the park is now located. It is estimated that 29,000 people were involved in the battle. The property at that time was owned by William Bent, a man who led wagon trains and traded with the Native Americans. Kansas City’s municipal rose garden in Loose Park is the realization of a dream that began in 1931, when a group of citizens under the leadership of Laura Conyers Smith established the Kansas City Rose Society. The first garden contained 120 rose plants. Today, there are about 3,000 roses of nearly 130 varieties in the 1.5 acre garden. The garden recently underwent a $400,000 renovation project, which included planting 1,200 new roses and restoring the beds to the original plans.