Posts Tagged ‘Nebraska’
Two-Lane Tidbit: Lodgepole Opera House, Lodgepole, NE
Built in 1911, the Lodgepole Opera House in Lodgepole, NE was constructed as a garage on the first level and an opera house on the upper floor. Sitting along the route of the Lincoln Highway, it was built at a time when opera houses were springing up across Nebraska, their popularity a result of rural…
Read MoreTwo-Lane Tidbit: State Line Truck Stop and Cafe, Pine Bluffs, WY
The former State Line Truck Stop and Cafe sits along the Lincoln Highway straddling the Nebraska-Wyoming border just outside the town of Pine Bluffs, WY. Closed and abandoned since the early 1990s, this one has been on our bucket list for quite some time. It was one of the most prominent stations along the 1913…
Read MoreTwo-Lane Tidbit: Wheat Growers Hotel, Kimball, NE
When it opened in 1918, the Wheat Growers Hotel in Kimball, NE was said to be “the most glamorous hotel between Omaha and Denver”. Just a few blocks off the Lincoln Highway, future president Eisenhower stayed at the hotel in 1919 while traveling across the country on the Lincoln Highway with the Motor Transport Corps…
Read MoreTwo-Lane Tidbit: Panorama Point, Bushnell, NE
Panorama Point, the highest point in Nebraska at 5,424 feet above sea level, is a short drive off of the Lincoln Highway. Located on private property in the middle of a bison ranch, visitors are only permitted to drive in to the site (no hiking, because no one wants a close encounter with a bison).…
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