Boulder to Scottsbluff Nebraska

On Sunday, we left Boulder on our trip to explore western Nebraska, an area nearby, but an area that we do not know. Key destinations include Scottsbluff National Monument as well as the mountain man museum in Chadron.

(Note, in late July we participated in the family reunion in Estes Park, but we did not blog that trip, partly because many of the prospective audience were there.)

In order to see new areas, we started going east on South Boulder road, and continued this past I25 to I76. We saw the new Del Webb "Anthem" retirement community, among other things.

We cruised northwest on I76 until Fort Morgan, where we turned north on highway 52. It was lunchtime, so we decided to stop at the very nice city park, next to the South Platte River. They kept the 1922 bridge as a pedestrian bridge, very nice.

The area north of Fort Morgan is pretty empty, as you can see at the state line sign.


We found our campground in Gering, NE, very nice, green, lots of space between sites, a city run park. It was hot when we arrived, but the wind was blowing, and the sun disappeared behind the clouds, so it gradually got cooler. We can see Scotts Bluff from our campsite.