Great Platte River Road Archway Monument

This was another very nice location and one that, if we were here on our own we might have overlooked!

The huge exibit space houses a historical experience that tells the story of Nebraska and the Platte River Valley in the development of America.

As you pass through the exhibits, the displays of different time periods feature a prairie schooner wagon on the Oregon Trail, a buffalo stampede, the Mormon Handcart Expedition, a 49er's campsite, the Pony Express, the Transcontinental Telegraph, a stagecoach, the Transcontinental Railroad, the first transcontinental highway, the Lincoln Highway, and today's transcontinental highway, I-80. LOTS of stuff!

The exhibit ends with a replica drive-in and 1950s-style cafe with windows providing views over the interstate. Hats off to our tour leaders! With their experience on previous caravans they have been curating a very nice series of locations.Read more