Dancing Leaf Cultural Learning Center - Wellfleet, Nebraska

Dancing Leaf Cultural Learning Center - Wellfleet, Nebraska

 

Are you interested in an experience in

 

Primitive Native American life? You can have it if you visit the Dancing Leaf Cultural Learning Center.

Dancing Leaf Cultural Learning Center offers a unique blend of educational and

 

recreational opportunities. An earthen lodge from the time period of 800-1300

 

years ago has been reconstructed. A tour of this and other archeological

 

information and artifacts is covered in a 90 minute daily tour.

 

Dancing Leaf is located on 115 acres of cedar covered canyons along the Medicine

 

Creek and includes a spring fed lake, many scenic trails and natural springs.

 

One thousand years ago in Southwest Nebraska, there lived small groups of Native Americans known to archeologists as the Upper Republican Culture. These people lived in earthen lodges and farmed along Medicine Creek and are thought to be ancestors to the Pawnee. Some may feel that their way of life was harsh, but their ability to live as one with nature gave them a spiritual outlook on life that few have ever experienced. Dancing Leaf is in a setting of prairie hills along the banks of the Medicine Creek that we have tried to recapture a feeling of closeness to nature and inner strength that can best be experienced through this simple way of life.

 

Tour Information:

 

90 min. tours - start each day every half hour 9:00 a.m. through 3:00 p.m.

 

Memorial Weekend through Labor Day

 

90 min. Tour Rates: Adult $7.00 Child (5-17) $5.00

 

Day Pass - includes Earth Lodge Tour, Canoeing, Hiking Trails,

 

Medicine Wheel Tour, and Guided Plant Hikes.

 

Day Pass Tour Rates: Adult $12.00 Child (5-17) &10.00

 

Other tour times and/or Buffalo Stew or other meals available by reservation year round.

 

Les and Jan Hosick are the owners/operators of Dancing Leaf Cultural Learning Center located at Wellfleet, Nebraska.

 

Overnight Accommodations

 

Reservations required

 

Price per 24 hour period

 

Earthen Lodge

 

Primitive camping

 

- you supply your own camping gear -

 

Adult $30.00 Child (5-17) $25.00

 

Minimum rental fee $100.00

 

Prices include day pass privileges

 

Tent Areas-RV Parking-Cabin Rental:

 

$12.00 per tent $12.00 per space From $50.00 to $75.00

 

(Overnight guests in tent, RV’s, and cabins will also need a day pass for each person)

 

*Bathhouse and showers available for those staying in tents or RV’s.

 

**All cabins heated and air conditioned.

 

*Available year round by reservation

 

Special group programs and school tours.

 

Meeting room and picnic shelter.

 

Buffalo Stew and other meals available for tour and overnight guests.

 

Call for pricing and availability 308-963-4233

 

Location: 6100 East Opal Springs Road

 

Wellfleet, Nebraska 69170