Northeast Nebraska Tourism

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Off Road Ranch - Norfolk, Nebraska

Off Road Ranch - Norfolk, Nebraska

Have you always wondered just how good you really are on your off road vehicle?  Do you wonder how far you can jump your motorcycle?  How fast you are?  Can you win in a drag race?  All of these things can be put to the test at the Off Road Ranch in Norfolk. Read more

Elkhorn Valley Museum and Research Center - Norfolk, Nebraska

Elkhorn Valley Museum and Research Center - Norfolk, Nebraska

This is a museum that you will truly want to spend some time in looking at the wide array of displays showcasing the life and times of those that settled the area and those that made history in later years.  You can see a room that is set up to reflect what "Grandma’s House" was like in the early 1900’s, a doctors office from 1881-1883 which shows how things have changed in the last 100+ years in the medical field.  Maybe you are interested in tractors and would enjoy seeing the Square Turn Tractor that was built in 1916. Read more

Cedar County Historical Museum - Hartington, Nebraska

Cedar County Historical Museum - Hartington, Nebraska

In the community of Hartington there is the cedar County Historical Museum which until a new 40 x 60 foot building was built was located in what, in 1900, was a private home.  The house was filled with treasures of the Nebraska heritage to display for your education and enjoyment.   Now the new building houses even more of the antique machinery and horse drawn buggies.  Read more

Burt County Museum - Tekamah, Nebraska

Burt County Museum - Tekamah, Nebraska

Tucked in the northeast part of the state is the community of Tekamah with its proud history and willingness to share the story with the rest of the world.  Here you will have the pleasure of visiting the E.C. Houston House, the C.D. Houston House, the Nolana one-room schoolhouse and annex, and stroll across the Folsom Park Footbridge between the two homes of the Houston brothers.  There is also the opportunity to enjoy the goldfish pond, tumbling waterfalls and see the wide variety of plants and shrubbery. Read more

Olson Nature Preserve - Albion, Nebraska

Olson Nature Preserve - Albion, Nebraska

Occasionally we need to take the time to visit the sites of nature, whether on a trip or if we live in the area.  The Olson Nature Preserve gives that opportunity to everyone that wants to see what beauty lies in the sandhills of Nebraska.  Here, at the easternmost tip of the sandhills the wonders of nature are alive with the half-mile plus stretch of Beaver Creek.  This perennial spring fed stream forms the geological boundary between the sandhills and the rolling loess hardlands to the east.  Read more

Blackbird Hill - Decatur, Nebraska

Blackbird Hill - Decatur, Nebraska

You may have thought that there was nothing special to see or learn about in Decatur but you would be wrong.  How many times will you get to see a place where an Indian Chief is buried upright on his horse?  That’s what is under the mound of dirt 45 feet high just eight miles north of Decatur.  Chief Blackbird, a great Omaha chief was buried here prior to 1804 when Lewis and Clark visited the gravesite. Read more

Cuthills Vineyards - Pierce, Nebraska

Although Nebraska is known more for its voluminous commercial corn production than its wines, Nebraska actually had a flourishing wine and grape growing industry in the late 19th century, but much of that industry was devastated by such uncontrollable factors as prohibition, the Great Depression, and the Dust Bowl disaster. Read more

Nebraska Stats

• Abbreviation: NE
• Capital City: Lincoln
• Date of Statehood: Mar. 1, 1867
• State #: 37
• Population: 1,711,263 Read more

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