I like to look for places with quirky names, and when I saw a place called Paradise on our Missouri road trip, I immediately saved it to my maps. From the look of the local ice cream parlor, ...

Yearning for a water break. A beach, perhaps? But what to do in land-locked Missouri? Believe it or not, we have a few beaches of our own (for consideration here, any place with enough sand to play in ...

A child plays in the sand at Smithville Lake’s Little Platte Beach in June 2021. Rebecca Slezak rslezak@kcstar.com From Kansas City, you’d have to travel over 600 miles to dive into the Gulf of Mexico ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Swimming season is returning, and most beaches in Missouri state parks are open for Memorial Day weekend. The Department of Natural Resources reported two beaches will remain ...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has released its list of the status of beaches in Missouri State Parks. For the week starting Thursday, August 28, two beaches were closed to swimming. The ...