Скачать или смотреть Postcard: Cars once loved Cliff Drive, but now they’re not welcome

Learn how Cliff Drive, a scenic loop along the Missouri River bluffs, was one of the KC Parks and Boulevard system’s most popular features . Today it’s open only to non-motorized traffic.

If anything in KC was postcard ready in the early 1900s, it was Cliff Drive. The four mile long loop built to connect parts of the city’s new Parks and Boulevards system was tranquil, scenic and offered grand views of the Missouri River below.

Best of all, if you had one of those new-fangled automobiles, it was perfect for a little adventuring.
So it’s no surprise that Cliff Drive adorned a number of different postcards, including this one published by the Hall Brothers.

The property it ran through had been owned by Nathan Scarritt, a Methodist minister turned real estate investor. In the 1890s his family sold the acreage, which included a popular mineral spring, to be used as the centerpiece of George Kessler’s North Terrace Park (now known as Kessler Park.)

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