In order to receive a State Scenic Byway designation, a byway must have one or more of the following “intrinsic qualities:" recreational, historic, cultural, archeological, scenic and natural.
Three attributes in particular distinguished Cliff Drive as uniquely qualified to receive Scenic Byway designation. These attributes include:
1. Cliff Drive is the representative example of a historically significant urban design and planning effort recognized worldwide.
2. Cliff Drive was uniquely critical to the evolution and development of Kansas City as a major metropolitan area.
3. Cliff Drive preserves natural features unique to this portion of the Missouri River Valley including limestone bluffs, natural vegetation, and wildlife, particularly unusual because it is located immediately adjacent to the city core within a heavily urbanized environment.
These qualities are representative, unique, irreplaceable, and distinctly characteristic to the Kansas City area.
Historical points and landmarks along the byway include:
Cliff Drive
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