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Scotts Bluff National Monument is located west of the City of Gering in western Nebraska, United States.This National Park Service site protects over 3,000 acres of historic overland trail remnants, mixed-grass prairie, rugged badlands, towering bluffs and riparian area along the North Platte River.
Although the gap between South Bluff and Scotts Bluff is a natural landform in the northern Wildcat Hills, the area was not easily traversed. Originally, the main branch of the Great Platte River Road (customarily referred to as the Oregon Trail and also later the California Trail) passed to the south of the bluffs at Robidoux Pass. Beginning ...
The Oregon Trail Days weekend kicks off with the community barbecue on Thursday night. Friday morning is the Annual Kiddie Parade on 10th Street, with the International Food Fair in Downtown Gering Friday night. Saturday morning the community gathers for the annual Oregon Trail Days Parade.
Sign on N-92 as it enters the state from Wyoming Scotts Bluff National Monument. The road is the Oregon Trail, a former alignment of N-92 Chimney Rock, a landmark on N-92. N-92 begins at the Wyoming border west of Lyman and after a brief turn south, heads east passing around the north side of Scotts Bluff National Monument, crosses the North Platte River for the first of three times, and ...
A local road, Robidoux Road, now passes through the gap. Robidoux Pass is located south of Scotts Bluff National Monument, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south and 8 miles (13 km) west of Gering, Nebraska off Nebraska Highway 71 on Robidoux Road. [6] [7] The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. [2]
Scotts Bluff: Pass that was part of the Oregon Trail from 1848 to 1851, when another pass became preferred. 19: Schultz site: July 19, 1964 : North Loup: Valley: An archaeological site. 20: Scout's Rest Ranch: Scout's Rest Ranch
Map from The Vikings team, or the Old Oregon Trail 1852–1906, by Ezra Meeker Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906. [1] The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [2] Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
The Oregon Trail ran along the south side of the Platte and the Mormon Trail ran along the North side. [4] [5] [6] Both the Oregon and Mormon trails had multiple starting points along the Missouri River. The major starting points included Independence, St. Joseph, Nebraska City, and Council Bluffs-Omaha. From each of these locations (and others ...