The Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy’s Mount Minnie Nature Preserve, located along Deadstream Road between Platte Lake and Little Platte Lake isn’t a large preserve with only 70-acres, but ...
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 ...