Out in the parks
Enjoy a pleasant early evening birding stroll around the vicinity of the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center to wrap up World Migratory Bird Day. Whether you are new to birding, an avid birder, or just want to get outdoors and enjoy some time with others, everyone is welcome!
Christmas on the Prairie is a FREE holiday event scheduled in the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, 2025.
Attention all bird lovers & birders of all abilities! Fly over to Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center on Saturday, February 14th, from 9:30-11:00 am to learn about, observe, count, and celebrate our western Nebraska winter birds as part of the 29th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). There will be a brief presentation on […]
Enjoy blue skies, green grass and wildflowers as we kick off the summer program season. Rolfsmeier, director of the High Plains Herbarium and instructor at Chadron State College, will lead the group on a short walk on the trails near the monument visitor center, identifying wildflowers and plants along the way.
Jeff McManus is scheduled to present his program Wagons of the Emigrant Trails on Tuesday, June 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the wagons on the Oregon Trail Pathway, just west of the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center.Join Jeff, a member of the National Stagecoach and Freight Wagon Association, as he describes the essential features […]
Park ranger and photographer Eric Grunwald tells the story of Scotts Bluff National Monument through his own images, from the wildlife that lives here to the rugged terrain that funneled hundreds of thousands of emigrants west along the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails. Each photograph opens up a different side of the monument, and Eric […]
Join Park Ranger Ben Schutt for an evening look back at how one landmark, and the national monument named for it, changed over more than a century. In this Visitor Center Theater program, Schutt traces Scotts Bluff National Monument from its early creation and entry into the National Park System through the construction of the […]
Martin Gilmore is scheduled to present his program The History of the American West Through Song on Friday, July 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center Amphitheater, located at 190276 Old Oregon Trail in Gering, NE.Join Martin Gilmore for a musical journey through traditional and original folk songs connected to […]
Join Martin Gilmore for a musical journey where he will present traditional and original folk
songs connected to the history and landscape of the American West.
Learn to read the landscape of western Nebraska. Park Ranger Christian Hedrick presents “Ethnobotany of the High Plains,” an evening program on the native plants of the High Plains and how people have identified, used, and ethically harvested some of the region’s greatest natural treasures.The program begins inside the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center […]
Guided by Tradition: Using Pawnee Oral Histories to Rethink Radiocarbon Dating on the Great Plains is a free evening lecture at the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center. Carlton Shield Chief Gover, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, examines how Indigenous oral traditions can inform […]
Musician and composer David Boye performs original instrumental guitar compositions inspired by the natural landscapes of American national parks. His music weaves in recordings of wilderness sounds gathered during his travels across the country, capturing the character of the American West.Boye is a former Artist-in-Residence at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and North Cascades National […]
