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  • Stand where "Wild Bill" Hickok earned his quick-draw reputation during the Wild West's first recorded shootout. Markers on Boonville Avenue show where Hickok stood as he gunned down Davis Tutt Jr. in 1865. It's best visited at high noon.
  • Get your kicks at the birthplace of Route 66. It was in Springfield that officials named the Chicago-Los Angeles highway, and many of the kitschy diners remain.
  • Watch your head as you take an extended Jeep tour through Fantastic Caverns, America's only drive-through cave system (adults, $21.50; children, $13.50)
  • Don your gaudiest American flag apparel and head to Branson, a country-music theme park of a town that bills itself as the "Live Music Show Capital of the World."
  • Stock up at the original Bass Pro Shop, a hunting-fishing megastore that's also home to the Wonders of Wildlife exhibit. (Note, however, that the facility is currently closed for a major expansion project that will hopefully bring more wildlife—of the live, unstuffed variety—to town.)

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Hotels

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University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center

333 John Q. Hammons Parkway
Springfield, MO 65806 Map

Distance: 1.0 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 3 class stars

from: $94

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites SPRINGFIELD

1117 EAST ST. LOUIS STREET
Springfield, MO 65806 Map

Distance: 1.2 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 2 class stars

from: $51

Super 8 Motel Springfield North /I44

I-44 Exit 80B N Glenstone Ave
Springfield, MO 65803-4414 Map

Distance: 1.4 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 2 class stars

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Attractions

Fantastic Caverns

4872 North Farm Road
Springfield, Missouri 65803

Distance: 3.0 mi. (from destination center)

Airports

Major Airports near Springfield

Distance (mi.)
Tulsa International Airport 159.6 map
Kansas City International Airport 163.4 map
Lambert-St Louis International Airport 192.6 map

Other Smaller Airports near Springfield

Distance (mi.)
Springfield-Branson Rg Airport 5.3 map
Harrison Boone County Airport 69.1 map
Fort Leonard Wood Forney AAF Airport 72.5 map

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