Ruts from the Oregon Trail are still visible today. Glenn Van Nimwegen
A solitary Oregon Trail stone marker sits inside Ash Hollow State Historical Park, posting the trail hopeful emigrants followed westward. Tom Till
Garden County
Ash Hollow State Historical
Park
Three miles southeast of Lewellen
on U.S. Hwy 26, just west of Lake McConaughy. Visitor center interprets
geological, paleontology, prehistoric, American Indian, fur trappers, explorers
and pioneers. Ash Hollow Indian Cave and Windlass Hill included. Ruts remain
from the covered wagons that descended Windlass Hill more than a century ago.
Open 8a-6p daily.
Ruts from the Oregon Trail are still visible today. Glenn
Van Nimwegen
A solitary Oregon Trail stone marker sits inside Ash Hollow State Historical
Park, posting the trail hopeful emigrants followed westward. Tom
Till
More information and a map of the Oregon Trail that traveled through Nebraska.