Independence/Nauvoo

Many families and their friends will want to divide their visits to Church History sites into two separate tours. One tour is to Palmyra and Kirtland which gives one half of the story and the other tour would be to Independence and Nauvoo which presents the rest of the overview of the restoration.

These slides feature the tour one might take for the latter tour. Flights are plentiful into Kansas City, which is in easy driving distance from Independence. Indeed, Independence is a suburb of Kansas City.

A probable itinerary would have you first travel to the Liberty Jail in Liberty and then on over to Independence for a tour of the visitor's center and a stroll on Temple Lot. Following the visit to Independence, you would want to travel 45 minutes to Far West, where you would visit the grounds where the monument commemorating Section 119 of the Doctrine and Covenants is housed. Next a short trip over to Haun's Mill and then a drive through Gallatin to Adam-ondi-Ahman gives a great overview to the Independence period.

Following the visits to the aforementioned sites, the tour will proceed to Nauvoo, but will likely stop in Hannibal to take a step back into the Mark Twain era. Continuing North the tour will focus on Nauvoo. While staying at the Nauvoo Family Inn, the tour will likely included an overview of Nauvoo, a side trip to Carthage, Montrose, and Quincy. Not to be neglected will be a visit to the Nauvoo Burial grounds outside of Nauvoo, reportedly said by President Hinckley to be the second most sacred site in the United States next to the Sacred Grove in Palmyra, New York.