The Shawnee Public Library is a great community resource that offers programs for all ages. The City of Shawnee’s Civic Centre is home to the Park & Recreation Department and offers courses throughout the year for children and adults. Shawnee Mission Park is located in Shawnee, and with 1,250 acres of land, it is the area’s largest park. Shawnee citizens can also enjoy 26 city parks with almost 650 acres of land and miles of trails. The two swimming pools in Shawnee: the Jim Allen Aquatic Center and Splash Cove and Thomas A. Soetaert Aquatic Center are no ordinary municipal pools. They have to be seen to be believed. For dinner and a movie, there are a variety of restaurants from fast food to elegant dining and a multi-screen theatre complex located in Shawnee. PowerPlay is the place to go for kid-style entertainment such as video games, laser tag, bumper cars and go carts. If bowling is preferred, the beautiful Park Lanes offers regular or bumper bowling. Check out the Shawnee Convention & Visitors Bureau website for detailed information on things to do in Shawnee.

Shawnee is part of metropolitan Kansas City, which opens a whole lot of entertainment options to those living here. Kansas City, Missouri attractions are just minutes away with Chiefs football, Royals baseball, Worlds of Fun, Oceans of Fun, the Kansas City Zoo, Starlight Theater, the newly opened Sprint Center and the KC Power & Light District, the world famous Country Club Plaza and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City, Kansas is only 10 minutes away which includes the Kansas Speedway, Legends, Cabela’s and Nebraska Furniture Mart and coming in summer 2009, the Schlitterbahn entertainment destination.

For all of your destination Shawnee information, visit the Shawnee Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Special thanks to County Economic Research Institute, Inc. (CERI) for the research information about Johnson County and the Kansas City metropolitan area. For more information about CERI, visit their website.