Out in the parks
Family Nature Club at Scotts Bluff National Monument is intended for children and their grown-ups. Each family group will receive an Exploration Kit to use during the series to explore the natural world around them at home.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
