MOMissouri field entry
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World — Springfield
Springfield, MO
The original Springfield Bass Pro is roughly half a million square feet of outdoor retail wrapped around seven aquariums, an alligator-and-turtle swamp, waterfalls, boats, vehicles, a restaurant and multiple in-store museums.
Bass Pro Shops’ original flagship operates simultaneously as a massive outdoor retailer, wildlife environment, boat-and-vehicle showroom, restaurant and museum complex.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Outdoor store, apparel shop, boat and off-road-vehicle showroom, aquarium and swamp environment, wildlife displays, restaurant, sporting-history museum, motorsports museum and company-history exhibits.
The enormous working flagship is simultaneously a retailer, showroom, wildlife environment, restaurant and free museum complex without relying on the separate ticketed attraction next door.
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World in Springfield is the original flagship and national-headquarters store, filling roughly half a million square feet with fishing, camping, boating, hiking, hunting, footwear, apparel and outdoor merchandise. The retail floor also contains seven aquariums, an alligator-and-turtle swamp, immersive water and wildlife displays, Hemingway’s restaurant and multiple museums, including the free National Sporting Arms Museum plus Bass Pro history and motorsports collections. Historical sporting arms are museum objects rather than retail inventory. The adjacent Wonders of Wildlife attraction is a separate ticketed destination and is not folded into this profile.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Original Bass Pro flagship
- National headquarters store
- Roughly 500,000 square feet
- Outdoor gear
- Boats
- Off-road vehicles
- Seven in-store aquariums
- Alligator and turtle swamp
- Waterfalls and nature displays
- National Sporting Arms Museum
- Bass Pro history exhibits
- Motorsports museum
- Hemingway’s
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