Ponies, goats that grin for the camera, a dairy barn, a fishing pond and a one-room schoolhouse: Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead in Overland Park is the Kansas City metro’s love letter to farm childhoods.
Kids can bottle-feed baby goats, ride a pony, pan for “gold,” cheer the pig races and cool off with ice cream made the old-fashioned way. The farmstead’s gardens, prairie trails and Kansas heritage exhibits sneak in a little learning between the giggles.
Admission stays delightfully low (and free for the littlest visitors), making it the metro’s best-value family day out from spring through fall — plus special seasonal events as the holidays approach.
City kids, meet farm life. The goats are waiting to be adored.
