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Western Nebraska Tourism

Western Nebraska Tourism on NebraskaBeautiful.com Western Nebraska Tourism, the Panhandle region - your Nebraska Tourist Guide to Vacations, Attractions and Events

Strategic Air and Space Museum - Ashland, Nebraska

General Curtis LeMay had a vision of having a museum that preserved aircraft, and in 1959 his vision started to take shape as the first plane was brought to what was then known as the Strategic Aerospace Museum. While life has certainly changed in the years since 1959, so has the museum, as it has even changed its name, looking towards the future, to be sure it doesn’t become limiting. Read more

MONA – Museum Of Nebraska Art - Kearney, Nebraska

The Museum of Nebraska Art or MONA as it is known to locals is the state’s official collection of Nebraska art by Nebraska artists. The address of the museum is in Kearney, Nebraska at 2401 Central Avenue. The building that is home to the Museum of Nebraska Art was built in 1911 in the Renaissance Revival Style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Read more

North Platte Rail Fest

Put your ear to the ground and you can already hear Rail Fest 2008 coming around the bend. It’s looking to be an incredibly fun-filled weekend celebrating the Union Pacific Railroad and its many employees.

Are you a railroad buff? History will be steaming into North Platte aboard the "Living Legend" #844 steam engine. Read more

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument - Harrison, Nebraska

Agate FossilAgate Fossil Beds National Monument - Harrison, Nebraska

Come and experience the history of nineteen million years ago, creatures long extinct roamed across a Miocene savanna. Today, we find their fossilized remains in the sedimentary hills of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument. Read more

Dancing Leaf Cultural Learning Center - Wellfleet, Nebraska

Dancing Leaf Cultural CenterDancing 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.

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Hudson Meng Bison Kill Site - Chadron, Nebraska

Hudson Meng Bison SiteHudson Meng Bison Kill Site - Chadron, Nebraska

You will want to visit the world’s largest Alberta Culture bison kill site and museum. At Hudson-Meng you will experience a moment in time, discovering how early North American hunters survived 10,000 years ago. Capture their spirit, hear the story, learn about America’s prehistory, and the animals that roamed here. Hudson-Meng is the world’s largest Alberta Culture Bison Kill Site and bonebed. Read more

Lincoln County Historical Museum - North Platte, Nebraska

Lincoln MuseumLincoln County Historical Museum - North Platte, Nebraska

The Museum contains treasures of life in Lincoln County, including period room settings, china, quilts, fashions, furniture, a doctor’s office, telephone office, post office, beauty shop, DAR collection, natural history, a model railroad, railroad history and lots of photographs. Read more

Scotts Bluff National Monument - Gering, Nebraska

Scotts BluffScotts Bluff National Monument - Gering, Nebraska

Named for fur trapper Hiram Scott, this imposing natural formation was originally called ma-a-pa-te ("hill that is hard to go around") by Indians in the region.

Scotts Bluff, rising 800 ft above the surrounding valley floor, and 4649 ft. above sea level, was a famous landmark along the Oregon Trail. Read more

Trailside Museum of Natural History - Crawford, Nebraska

Trailside MuseumTrailside Museum of Natural History - Crawford, Nebraska

This one-of-a-kind exhibit features the fossils of two large bull mammoths whose tusks locked together during an Ice Age battle for dominance. During the struggle one mammoth slipped, and they both fell to the earth still locked in combat. Unable to separate, unable to rise, they died where they fell. Read more

Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park - North Platte, Nebraska

Buffalo Bill Ranch HouseBuffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park - North Platte, Nebraska

North Platte was home of the man who made the Wild West world-renowned. No one figure personifies the frontier spirit better than William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, the West’s most colorful showman, army scout and buffalo hunter. Read more

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