In Kearney, the SureStay Plus by Best Western Kearney Liberty North, Kearney, Missouri, is a clean, comfortable base about a 20-minute drive from downtown Kansas City, with amenity-packed rooms featuring cable or satellite TV and free wireless internet, a 24-hour front desk, a complimentary hot breakfast, and an outdoor pool with a grill.
The setting puts the music, sports, and casinos of the Kansas City area within easy reach via the interstate and two highways. A summer festival celebrates the town's most notorious native son.
Kearney sits in the rolling farmland of Clay County north of Kansas City, best known as the birthplace of the outlaw Jesse James, whose family farm and grave still draw visitors to the edge of town. An annual Jesse James Festival keeps the legend alive, the lakes and trails of the countryside offer quiet escapes, and the big-league ballparks and stages of greater Kansas City lie a short drive south.