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).
Stuhr Museum
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.
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.