Grand Island (Nebraska)

A large scale indoor/outdoor museum dedicated to the Nebraska frontier and the pioneers who settled those lands. Exhibits include a replica 1800s plains town where visitors can interact with exhibits, walk inside the many buildings and houses on the campus and observe an 1800s train station along with older farm equipment used in the area.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1998, this site contains one of the only remaining ruts on the Mormon Trail. The 2.4-acre site is west of and adjacent to the Wood River Crossing area. Upon leaving the Wood River Crossing, travelers were funneled onto a narrow ridge, which separated the winding Wood River from the wetlands of the Platte. Every traveler on this trail was forced onto this narrow pathway, creating the wide and shallow swale, which remains. The name of the site comes from the first settlers on the land, Marshal Townsley around 1860 and later Phineas and Catherine Murdock in 1866. Survey notes from 1866 note this tract of land contained the Murdock home, a sawmill and a telegraph line. This sawmill probably supplied the railroad ties for the first transcontinental railroad by Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s as it was one mile south of the tracks.

The non-profit Crane Trust protects whooping and sandhill cranes in the Big Bend region. Their Visitor Center is very popular during migration season (March).

A museum dedicated to the plainsmen of Nebraska. Exhibits include a log cabin and a sod-house, a time-varied history from the 1800s into the 1900s as well as automobiles, a 1800s schoolhouse and other various exhibits.

A juried summer art festival operating since 1982.

The Nebraska Danger, central and western Nebraska's indoor professional football team and member of the IFL, was founded October 4, 2010 in Grand Island, Nebraska, by Charlie Bosselman and is owned and operated by the Bosselman Companies/Bosselman Entertainment, LLC.