Queen City of the Ozarks, Buckle of the Bible belt. The Battlefield City, Birthplace of Route 66. City of colleges Springfield, Missouri has many names. Whatever you chose to call it, you can’t call the place dull. Springfield has plenty to do and see, and a lot of it won’t cost you a cent. Here are 10 things you can do in Springfield, Mo for free or sorta free.
10 Stroll in a Japanese Garden
9 Get some culture at the Springfield Art Museum
Numbers 8, 7 & 6 (three in one building) See the great outdoors indoors at THE Bass Pro Shop 7 The Archery Hall of Fame and 6 The NRA gun Museum.
Number 5 The Route 66 Visitor Center
Number 4 Wilson’s Creek Battlefield Memorial Park
Number 3 Downtown Sculpture walk including the World’s largest fork
2 Smallin Civil War Cave
Number 1 Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium
This is just in the Springfield area. Within about an hours drive or so you have the Silver Dollar City, Table Rock Lake, the Precious Moments Chapel (as featured in an earlier post here at G.G.), and of course the Redneck Las Vegas known as Branson, Missouri. (Which I will definitely feature in a future post.) Thanks for suggesting the post, Janelle. I hope you liked it 🙂
Awesome Darryl, thank you so much!!!! Lots here for us to do, can’t wait to get started! Love it!!!
Have fun