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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 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. The park boasts over 100,000 annual visitors.
2396559 [2] Website. www.scottsbluff.org. Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States, in the Great Plains region. The population was 14,436 at the 2020 census. Scottsbluff is the largest city in the Nebraska Panhandle, and the 13th-most-populous city in Nebraska. Scottsbluff was founded in 1899 across the North Platte ...
Mitchell Pass. Coordinates: 41°49′47.17″N 103°42′43.17″W. Mitchell Pass. Mitchell Pass is a gap through the bluffs near Scottsbluff and Gering, Nebraska. Beginning in 1851, two of the Westward Expansion Trails passed through the gap, as did the Pony Express in the early 1860s. Today the area is protected as part of Scotts Bluff ...
Chimney Rock is located 20 miles southeast of Scotts Bluff National Monument, on Nebraska Highway 92. [10] The Ethel and Christopher J. Abbot Visitor Center features museum exhibits and a video about pioneers and the migrations in the West, as well as a gift shop. [11] On March 1, 2006, the Nebraska State Quarter was released. The quarter ...
41°49′35″N 103°39′37″W / 41.826389°N 103.660278°W / 41.826389; -103.660278 (Scotts Bluff County Courthouse) Gering. 15. Scotts Bluff National Monument. Scotts Bluff National Monument. More images. October 15, 1966. (#66000117) 3 miles west of Gering on Nebraska Highway 92.
Website. countyofsewardne.com. Seward County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 17,609. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Seward. [ 2 ] The county was formed in 1855, [ 3 ] and was organized in 1867. [ 4 ][ 5 ] It was originally called Greene County, and in 1862 it was ...
Gering was officially founded on March 7, 1887, [4] being located at the base of the bluff that is now the center of Scotts Bluff National Monument.Although settled in 1886, Gering officially became a town in 1887 by a corporation headed by Oscar Gardner of Broken Bow, Nebraska and named for Martin Gering, a pioneer merchant with whom Gardner started the first dry goods store.