When you enter the great log lobby, you see people ride up an escalator and seemingly disappear into an enormous animated painting of covered wagons moving West. A Native American and a mountain man point the way. Pioneers and wagon trains move forward toward the trail. The first stop on the first level of this fascinating museum that makes history come alive is Fort Kearny.
Infrared headsets relate first-person stories of early travelers.
You leave this last frontier outpost and head out on the prairie, noticing Native American encampments and covered wagons being pulled by straining oxen. Thunder rolls above and lightning flashes. Chimney Rock beckons in the distance.