me and my family have come here every time we visit Nebraska City, it is very family friendly and…read moreencourages the curiosity of our Pioneer friends Lewis and Clark's amazing journey. So many cool things to experience here, highly recommend visiting!

Surprised in how modern the exhibits are and interactive! It is 2 stories and a basement as well as…read moretrails with great views. You can tell a-lot of effort went into preserving & creating the environment if engaged learning. Definitely worth a stop and lots for kids to do. Like all National park sites do t forget to get your Passport stamp and do the Junior Tanger program! There is an entry fee

The best value in movies. Just $2 and the films are current films. Excellent prices on snacks and…read moredrinks. I can see a movie and snack for less than $5. The building is more than 100 years old and has been cared for by the community. Flood and storms might close it for a week or two but it keeps on going. Hamburg Iowa!

I had the privilege of visiting this museum a couple days ago and was absolutely blown away. We…read morewere greeted by a docent who was a long time volunteer on the department, is currently in a bout with cancer amongst other health concerns but didn't let any of that stop him from giving an energetic and thorough history of the department. This museum was built entirely by the volunteers with no help from outside funding, as goes for the immaculately restored fire apparatus. The countless man hours and dedication they have poured into this museum is incredible and it certainly shows. I definitely recommend this to anyone passing through!

I've been through Nebraska City plenty of times over decades but never visited the Arbor Lodge…read moreuntil today. Was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the short drive down from Bellevue. Parking was easy to find close to the lodge. The lady who ran the ticket stand gave us a great history of the lodge and told us about several rooms we might have overlooked otherwise. The rooms all had interesting items in them, all well documented. We especially enjoyed the room with the print press equipment, the room with mannequins wearing vintage dresses (from the waistlines, the ladies wearing them had to be using industrial strength corsets), and the bowling alley in the basement. We walked over to the carriage house and stables, then took a short walk through the grounds. We're glad we took the time to visit.

Another yelp event hosted by Meg B, that we were invited to attend. Beautiful scenery, wonderful…read moreBBQ food at Porter's restaurant on site. Tour of the treehouse area that is set up for kids for All Hallows eve. Just so much to do & explore.great family event. I personally enjoyed it more than other pumpkin patch events that we've been to. Highly recommend you check this out anytime but especially in october.as already up to Halloween! Thanks Meg B for hosting.you made us all feel welcomed

This house is very well maintained and taken care of, the attic is very small and very creepy…read more There were plenty of pictures on the wall and axe makings on the walls in certain areas of the house. The tour of the house was definitely nice and I recommend it to people who are very interested or adventurous.

We booked an overnight stay at the Villisca Axe Murder House with a group of coworker friends,…read morewhich was super odd to begin with. But with all its ups and downs, we had a ton of fun overall. We were to meet our guide at the museum in town, but arrived a little early and had a bit of time to look around at the exhibits. The museum had a lot of items from the period when the murders took place - things like old Coke and Pepsi bottles, but none of which were used in any of the murders so we just took a passing glance. We came upon a bucket of old shingle scraps from the original murder house (free for the taking) so that was an interesting piece of the history. We did not take any of these shingle chips, lest we bring something more than memories home with us. Once we met our guide, she was to take us around the area and to the cemetery where the victims are buried, and then to the Axe Murder House where we would spend the night. Since we had a big group and she drove a small Sedan, she just said to follow her in our car and she would point out her window at a few things along the way and then tell us what the pointed-at things meant when we arrived at the cemetery. However, she also had a cigarette she ashed out the window so we weren't sure what was pointing and what was ashing. Just to be clear, I'm not complaining about this - it was hilarious. Our guide imparted to us that she had heard weed-whacking sounds at the cemetery earlier that week, but when she looked around, there was no weed-whacking landscaper to be seen. Needless to say, we were on the lookout for this phantom weed whacker the rest of the experience. We arrived at the main event, and got a quick tour of the barn, cellar, and the house. Inside the house there were a few historical pieces from the Moore family (the victims) such as some clothing laid out on the beds and photos on the walls. Once we were on our own, we ventured into the cellar first. After looking around a bit, a mouse or maybe a stick touched my friend's foot and she screamed, which caused us all to scream. When we found out it was just a mouse/stick, we told her to save her screams for actual ghosts or supernatural sightings. We next went to check out the barn a little closer, and saw that there were some semi-unflattering paintings of the victim's on the wall, along with a previous visitor's warning: "Sh*t went down!" We strolled around the rest of the grounds, which included an outhouse, a little gazebo style pair of benches, and a few other outbuildings. One thing to note here is that this house is not in the middle of nowhere out in a cornfield where you feel isolated and instantly eery - it's in the middle of a neighborhood with neighbors' yards all around, including playsets and bicycles, etc. If you can ignore those, the grounds do feel a little creepy as you walk through them. After our little stroll of the surrounding area, we headed into the house. We sort of just waited around for nightfall and chatted a bit about what we thought we might see once it got dark. We had Casey's Pizza and wine coolers, so we were having a good time while we waited, don't worry. Once night fell, we did walk around the house a little more (with flashlights) to see if any spooky things happened now that it was dark. We did hear a slight tapping/humming noise, but when we went to investigate, it ended up being the old window air conditioner. At this point, we thought we may need to delve deeper to get these spirits to haunt us. Luckily, one of my coworkers brought a crystal which we used to ask the spirits questions (yes or no questions). We decided the crystal swinging one way meant yes and the other way being no. I feel that was kind of arbitrary since we made up the rules of the answering format, but we did get it swinging a little bit to get some possible answers out of those dang ghosts. My other coworker brought an EVP reader and we asked the spirits a few questions (but we didn't get to hear the recordings until the next week, and there were a few little spooky things there, if you increased the volume a ton and could hear a muffled voice kind of saying a few of our names). A handful in our group were getting tired and did not want to sleep in the house, so they headed to their van at this point to hit the hay. The true ghost hunters (me and a few others) stayed up the rest of the night so we didn't miss anything spooky that may pop up. We didn't see anything creepy beyond a wasp's nest in the attic and a suspicious doll we found in one of the bedrooms. The morning came, and even though we didn't have any specific haunting experiences, we did have a ton of fun and did freak each other out a few times, so it was all in all a pretty good time. I would recommend this experience if you have a good group to go with, and a light spirit to not take it too seriously and expect to see Ghostbusters-like apparitions (who knows, maybe YOU will!)

I love Arbor Day Farm! We have visited here for staycations and day trips! Just 40 minutes from…read morehome it's a beautiful ride if you take route 75. We love walking the massive grounds. From trails, to tree tops, exploring the lodge, the hazelnut fields, and even the water park There is so much to do and see, bonus: smell. It's the perfect spot to celebrate an occassion, spend the day with the family, or just get away from the city. This is my happy place for sure!

Our primary motive in visiting Arbor Day Farm was the Discovery Ride. Sadly, when we arrived to buy…read moretickets, the cashier said it wasn't running except on weekends. That would have been good information to share on their website! But no; I checked again and there was no mention when the Ride was not available. Good thing this was not our only planned stop in Nebraska City. I did enjoy walking Doug's Trail -- and easy walk along a peaceful, mostly shaded route. The Historic Barns were cool. Overall, the site seemed to be clean and well-maintained.

Great place to go and explore and learn about wine making with honey. They also have the Apple…read moreorchards and a store where they sell all of the products they make on site.

We traveled to Nebraska City for the AppleJack Festival this year. Most of the festivities are held…read moreat Arbor Day Farm, but we also stopped at Kimmel Orchard and were so glad we did! Kimmel is obviously a lot smaller than Arbor Day Farm, but you wouldn't know it from the amount of products they have in their little shop, with a huge majority made of their apples. We tried some of their apple cider, of course, and it was divine. So smooth and with absolutely zero acidic "bite" you can sometimes get with apple products full of added sugar. I wish I had bought a few more bottles of it, instead of just the one that we shared on the way back to Omaha! The ambiance of the shop, even though it's pretty bustling at that time of year, is still very warm, welcoming and homy feeling. You can peruse the little "aisles" forever and still find something new you didn't know they made there at Kimmel. When we finally left, we had chosen apple butter, apple cider, cinnamon apple sauce, apple doughnuts, apple butter syrup, and ranch dressing (no apple in that! Haha) If you're headed to Nebraska City (during the AppleJack Festival or any other time), definitely stop by Kimmel Orchard - you will not be disappointed!

Nebraska classic if you ask me. Been a tradition to stop every fall since I can remember. Not much…read morehas changed and yet it has. New pickling veggies I never used to notice. The dilly beans!! Soo good. Must have along with either turnovers or the cinnamon apple donuts. It is a family owned orchard so they don't run super staffed all the time like a commercial business. Often one or two friendly faces unless its peak season. Restrooms always clean since they are right off the highway. They have a small seating section if needed or while doing a wine flight. I haven't been out in the orchard in some years but they have a wonderful area set up for kids. Apple picking wagons when it's time.

Union Orchard south of Omaha is relatively close to where we live. Apple season is about over, but…read morethey were very accommodating by driving us to a specific type of tree to pick a bag of apples. They have King David apples, which are Bookguy's favorite variety. But the apples ripened early and were already picked. Normally the orchard has hayracks pulled by tractors on weekends and that's how they take customers to various trees. We were there on a weekday so a guy drove us in a pickup. We were able to find enough good apples still on the tree to fill a bag. It was tempting to pick apples that looked okay off the ground, but we were advised not to since wild animals in the area forage the ground drops. The shop there has a lot of other good things to eat: jellies, jars of canned veggies, apple cider, popcorn, baking mixes, and cookies, to name a few. You can also order pies for the holidays. The wine tasting room features Nebraska wines. There's outdoor seating too. Even late in the season there's plenty of reasons to visit Union Orchard.