Turkey Creek Streamway Park

Fantastic walking trail! So glad I discovered it. We parked just past the train tracks on Johnson Drive and then walked the section of the trail that runs along the creek north/south- it's so serene and pretty. Nice trees and benches here and there. It's 2.2 miles round trip- a perfect quick jaunt before we went and ate a ton of sushi!!

We live just behind this park and visit it often. It always clean and never any teenagers hanging around.My daughter enjoys it a lot. Only thing I wish they had was another swing set, 4 (2 for older kids & 2 for toddlers) just isn't enough.

The Streamway park is a nice walking/biking trail that runs adjacent (in most places to Turkey Creek). I just stumbled on it while I was out bike riding and found it quite the enjoyable little trail.The trail starts right by the Wendy's on 75th street in Merriam and ends at around 54th and Merriam Dr.. Along the way you'll see many little parks, picnic areas, playgrounds and the Merriam Farmer's Market. You only have to cross a couple of city streets at 67th, just past Shawnee Mission Parkway and at 55th and Merriam Dr. The rest of the time you don't see much of city streets. If you're like me the most dangerous thing you'll encounter while riding your bike is thoughts of jumping the bike down the rocky banks into Turkey Creek. In all there's about 4 miles to be covered, but only 3.5 of those miles are continuous trail. The other half mile consists of trails leading off the path into residential neighborhoods.My favorite part of the ride comes from 75th Street to 67th. Most of this part of the trail is covered by a tree canopy and you really have no idea where you are at any given time. You're completely surrounded by trees. There's some clearings in this area that might make a nice LZ. At what must be near 69th street is a lone bench sitting in the trees 5 feet off the trail with only a view of the path and trees 2 feet on the other side of path. You can barely see the creek sitting on the bench (not that I have). Every time I ride by this bench I think, why would they put a bench here. But I'm sure some Nature Nancy probably thinks 'what a great place to sit and enjoy nature'. The Turkey Creek trail is a fine place right in the middle of town to find some naturic solitude. If you're going to do that on a bike, on foot or by unicycle, this trail will meet your needs.