Kansas City → Chico. One Move Plan.

The haul from Kansas City to Chico is a genuine cross-country run of roughly 1,790 miles, and Murdock’s Moving handles it the way a carrier should - one truck and one crew from your Missouri front door to your Butte County driveway. We roll north out of Kansas City on I-29 toward Omaha, then pick up I-80 west for the long pull across the Nebraska plains, Wyoming's high desert around Cheyenne and Laramie, and the salt flats of Utah before dropping down through Nevada past Reno and over Donner Summit into California.

Because Murdock’s operates on our own USDOT and CPUC authority as a carrier rather than a broker, your shipment is never handed off to a line-haul company or reloaded at a warehouse along the way. The same movers who wrap and load your furniture in Kansas City are the ones who carry it west and unload it in Chico. After clearing the Sierra, we exit I-80 near the Sacramento Valley floor and run Highway 99 north through Yuba City and Gridley into Chico - a typical transit of three to five days depending on weather over the passes and your delivery window.

Chico is the anchor of Butte County and the northern Sacramento Valley, a walkable college town built around California State University, Chico and the sprawling green ribbon of Bidwell Park - one of the largest municipal parks in the country, stretching from downtown up into the foothills along Big Chico Creek. For a family arriving from Kansas City, the scale feels familiar and manageable: a real downtown with brick storefronts, farmers markets, and tree-lined streets, wrapped by neighborhoods that sit at the edge of the Sierra foothills and almond orchards.

Newcomers tend to look at established in-town neighborhoods like The Avenues near campus, the Barber and Chapman districts, and quieter master-planned areas on the east side toward Canyon Oaks and the foothills. Chico has spent the years since the 2018 Camp Fire absorbing and rebuilding regional demand, so housing runs the range from historic bungalows to newer subdivisions, and a Murdock’s crew delivering here is used to everything from second-floor student-adjacent rentals to single-story foothill homes with long driveways.

A move into Chico usually means trading a big-metro commute for a town where you can bike to campus or the park, with Sacramento about 90 minutes south for airport and big-city needs. Our crews plan the unload around Chico's older tree-canopied streets and the tighter parking near the university.