Travel & Tourism

Dawson County Historical Museum

Dawson County Historical Museum, 805 N. Taft, offers 30,000 square feet of exhibit rooms displaying an outstanding collection of historical and pioneer artifacts, many of which were donated by families of pioneers who traveled the trails to settle Lexington and the surrounding area.

The museum complex houses many examples of china and glassware, historic clothing and quilts, furniture, farm machinery and wagons, Native American artifacts, the locally-built McCabe Baby Biplane, a log cabin, train depot and an early rural school house built in 1888.

The museum also houses on-going paleontology work on “Big Al,” a mammoth skeleton discovered north of Cozad, and features an art gallery and archives for genealogical and other historical research.

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Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest

Nebraska National Forest (Bessey Ranger District)

Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge

Fort Kearny State Historical Park

Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park

Champion Mill State Historical Park and Recreation Area

Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park and State Recreation Area

Arthur Bowring Sandhills Ranch State Historical Park

Bailey Yard & The Golden Spike Tower

Nebraskaland Days in North Platte

Various attractions around North Platte

Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center

Ft. McPherson National Cemetery