Natural Spaces

Green Infrastructure

Green infrastructure is an all-inclusive name for how natural environmental elements can be incorporated into the built environment.

Two people riding bikes over bridge on trail

MetroGreen

The MetroGreen Action Plan is a greenway plan for the Kansas City region that provides a greenprint for a metropolitan trails system that connects urban and rural green corridors.

Trail and wildflowers at Gardner Junction of the historic trails

Historic Trails Retracement Plan

This plan outlines strategies for retracing three historic trails — the Santa Fe, Oregon and California trails — through the Kansas City region.

NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY

The Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) gives users the ability to illustrate and quantify, through mapping and spatial analysis, how much land in the region is developed, and how much consists of parks, wetlands, forests, grasslands, floodplains and more.

The NRI provides accessible information in multiple formats that can be easily incorporated into community and development plans, leading to more informed decisions. Download GIS files or browse maps and layers using our Green Region Explorer, an interactive map of land cover data in the nine-county Greater Kansas City region.

Green Region Explorer

Land Cover GIS Data