Best Watering Hole
Carl J. DiCapo Fountain
Located in Kessler Park on the picturesque Cliff Drive in Kansas City's north end, the Carl J. DiCapo Fountain used to be the site of a spring where local residents came for their water. In 1989, the city's Parks Department installed the fountain -- but what they really made was a lovely, roaring waterfall that looks as old as the park itself (which goes back more than 100 years). It nestles among the trees like a three-tiered throne of limestone more than 30 feet high. A sign warns that wading or swimming in the triangular basin is illegal, but on the right summer evening, a small party of kids and grown-ups frolics in water as if the fountain were an unplugged city fire hydrant.
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