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Every event is a pilgrimage.
Port of Call · The Heartland

Kansas City

The revived scene

Kansas City lost TikiCat — one of the great modern rooms — and answered by growing new ones: the scene here is proof a port can come back from the doldrums. Lei Away is the hometown weekender, and the Castaways and Kona Kai mark where the midcentury tide reached.

Vitals

Fix your position
Operating bars2
Dead Reckoning sites4

The Chart

Kansas City · These waters
Layers
Kansas City · Port of Call
Soundings in rum · Not for navigation

When to Go

Events in these waters
Sep 17–19, 2026The Lei Away