Raw States
Winter Magic
Kansas City, MO · Holiday
- When
- November 4, 2026 – January 2, 2027
- Where
- Platte Purchase Park · Kansas City · MO
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A drive-through holiday light show with more than a mile of synchronized lights, animated displays and festive music, viewed from inside the car. It is held nightly at Platte Purchase Park in Kansas City's Northland. Two local brothers started it in 2020, and it partners with Children's Mercy Hospital.
The history within reach
A free-state port founded by abolitionists and Wyandot people on the Kansas bank, and a crossing point on the Underground Railroad out of slaveholding Missouri.
Croatian, Slovenian, Polish and Russian packinghouse workers settled the bluff above the West Bottoms, close enough to walk to the killing floors.
The second-largest stockyards in the country after Chicago, handling cattle driven up from Texas.
The library's car park is faced with 25-foot book spines chosen by readers, Fahrenheit 451, Invisible Man, Silent Spring, turning the least loved building type in a downtown into the most photographed one..
Tom Pendergast ran the city through patronage, concrete contracts and open disregard for Prohibition, the town never really went dry, which is why the music did so well.