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Scotts Bluff National Monument

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A prominent natural landmark for emigrants on the Oregon Trail, Scotts Bluff, Mitchell Pass and the adjacent prairie lands are set aside in a 3,000 acre national monument. This site preserves the memory of the historic Oregon, California and Mormon Trails. The monument museum contains exhibits about the human and natural history of the area and also holds a unique collection of watercolor paintings by the frontier photographer and artist William Henry Jackson.

Map

http://www.nps.gov/scbl/pphtml/maps.html

Directions

Plane - Commercial flights in and out of Western Nebraska Regional Airport at Scottsbluff.

Car - DIRECTIONS: Visitors traveling east-west on Interstate 80 can exit at Kimball, Nebraska, and drive 45 miles north on Highway 71.  Follow National Park Service signs 2 miles west of Gering,  Nebraska, on State Highway 92. Visitors following the old Oregon Trail along the North Platte River using State Highways 26 or 92, should follow National Park Service signs.

References and External Links

• http://www.nps.gov/scbl

Posted by: recreation2 and last modified on Jul 05, 2007 by thoos

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