Kansas City to Denver road trip: Distance, drive time & best stops
By car, the distance from Kansas City to Denver is 604 miles, with a 8h40m driving time. The best stops on a Kansas City to Denver road trip are Topeka, the Eisenhower Presidential Library and the Prairie Museum.
Planning a Kansas City to Denver road trip itinerary
The drive from Kansas City to Denver takes you from Missouri to Colorado, crossing Kansas on the way.
Top Denver experiences include Rocky Mountain National Park day tours, downtown Denver food tours and chilling guided ghost walks around the Cheeseman Park cemetery.
Good experiences in Kansas City include an indulgent food tour of the city’s best BBQ joints, Segway tours, the Sealife Aquarium and wine-tasting trips.
Kansas City to Denver distance and driving time
By car, the distance from Kansas City to Denver is 604 miles. You can expect a driving time of around eight hours and 40 minutes. The drive is almost entirely along the I-70, with the top attractions along the route all in Kansas.
The best road trip stops on the Kansas City to Denver drive are Topeka, the Eisenhower Presidential Library and the Prairie Museum.
Kansas City to Denver road trip stops: Topeka
The capital of Kansas has several attractions that grab the attention. You can do tours of the Kansas State Capitol Building, push lots of buttons at the Kansas Children’s Discovery Center and get a feel for the past at Old Prairie Town. The latter is a living history museum, with plenty of heritage buildings to explore, at the Ward-Meade Historic Site.
Topeka’s most compelling attraction, however, is the Evel Knievel Museum. This celebrates the world’s most famous stuntman, and includes a virtual reality experience.
Kansas City to Denver drive: Dwight D Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
The small town of Abilene, Kansas, gave America one of its great generals and presidents. Dwight D Eisenhower’s boyhood home is now part of his Presidential Library and Museum.
As with most of these presidential libraries, the museum section doesn’t just cover the former president’s life and work – it acts as a snapshot of the historic period he lived through.
Attractions between Kansas City and Denver: The Prairie Museum
The collection at the Prairie Museum of Art and History in Colby, Kansas, is eclectic but not especially gripping. You can expect dolls, ceramics, furniture and plenty of local history.
Where the museum comes into its own is the outdoor section, where a succession of old buildings have been brought together. The two main highlights are the cute little church and the absolutely enormous barn, which is proudly billed as the biggest barn in Kansas.
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