Our Hotel in Historic Kearney is
a short driving distance to many Kearney attractions, including Great
Platte River Road Archway Monument, migration of the Sandhill Cranes,
Pioneer Village, Fort Kearney State Historical Park, Museum of Nebraska
Art, Trails & Rails Museum and the G.W. Frank House. The University of
Nebraska at Kearney is also convenient to the Kearney Hotel:
- Museum of Nebraska Art
- Pioneer Village
- Trails & Rails Museum
- Cabela's Wildlife
Showroom
- Historic Frank House
- University of Nebraska at
Kearney
Located at the nation's midpoint,
equidistant from Boston and San Francisco, Kearney's history as a
travelers' rest began as pioneers and settlers followed early trails
across the continent during the 1800s. Nearby Fort Kearny (c1848)
protected pioneers, prospectors and railroad crews. The unique Harold
Warp Pioneer Village chronicles America's progress and development since
1830 with live demonstrations and over 50,000 historical items. Today,
the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument spans I-80, and celebrates
the pioneers' westward journey and the opening of the nation.
Interactive exhibits allow visitors to share the experience. The area is
also known for travelers of a different kind in the spring the Platte
River in Kearney becomes a rest stop for some 500,000 migrating sand
hill cranes and other birds on their way north to Alaska and Canada.
The location of the Great Platte
River Road Archway Monument coincides with where three great western
trails converged the Oregon, Mormon and California trails all passed
through here, and nearly 300,000 settlers passed this way during the
mid-1800s. Later, the routes were used by the Pony Express, Wells Fargo
stagecoaches, and the Transcontinental Railroad, and formed the base for
what is today a busy interstate highway. |
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