ATTENDANCE AT SELECTED NEBRASKA ATTRACTIONS
Nebraska - 2001 to 2004            
      2002 2004
City Attraction 2001 Attendance Total Summer Attendance 2003 Attendance Total Summer Attendance
Cozad 100th Meridian Museum 1,955 1,500 1,250 2,600 1,800 1,500
Brownville 1860 Carson House NA 1,700 1,100 440 3,100 3,100
Papillion 1860 John Sautter House and 1890 Portal "One Room" School 1,831 1,100 370 NA 3,000 1,000
North Platte 20th Century Veterans' Memorial NA NA NA NA 2,000 1,000
Comstock 2nd Wind Ranch 30,000 NA NA 50,000 100,000 100,000
Harrison Agate Fossil Beds National Monument 17,399 17,129 NA 16,234 15,000 8,500
Lincoln Ager Play Center NA 10,000 200 NA NA NA
Bellwood Air Boat Tours 1,000 NA NA NA NA NA
Gretna Aksarben Aquarium 65,000 65,000 25,000 65,000 NA NA
York Anna Bemis Palmer Museum 330 256 30 340 278 118
Neligh Antelope County Historical Museum 308 220 188 NA 250 250
Nebraska City Arbor Day Farm 164,000 150,000 70,000 202,977 NA NA
Nebraska City Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum 150,000 69,900 NA 70,000 150,000 100,000
Nebraska City Arbor Trails Winery NA NA NA NA 5,000 2,500
Arcadia Arcadia Riverview Recreation NA NA NA NA 125 125
Arnold Arnold Lake State Recreation Area NA 5,000 4,500 NA 2,000 1,700
Merriman Arthur Bowring Sandhills Ranch State Historical Park 10,000 750 550 14,664 6,957 5,077
Crawford Ash Creek Cowboy Cookout 30 NA NA NA NA NA
Lewellen Ash Hollow State Historical Park 37,600 34,000 20,000 28,000 25,000 15,000
Royal Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park 24,000 20,000 17,000 18,000 20,000 16,500
Atkinson Atkinson Lake State Recreation Area NA 387 NA 946 758,320 NA
Denton Audubon Spring Creek Prairie 1,800 NA NA NA NA NA
North Platte Bailey Railroad Yard NA NA NA NA 1,050 900
Ogallala Bald Eagle Viewing Center 1,946 NA NA NA 871 0
Harrisburg Banner County Museum 1,548 2,000 1,000 NA 2,000 1,000
Bayard Bayard Chimney Rock Museum 800 1,000 200 NA NA NA
Bayard Bayard Depot Museum NA NA NA NA 1,001 NA
Beatrice Beatrice Big Blue Water Park 27,490 16,783 16,783 29,629 20,550 20,550
Beatrice Beatrice Speedway NA NA NA 72,000 NA NA
Tecumseh "Believe It or Not" The Life & Times of Vada & Col. Barney Oldfield 150 NA NA NA NA NA
Bellevue Bellevue Little Theatre 4,921 5,121 NA 5,000 5,000 NA
Falls City Bell-Jenne House & Richardson County Museum NA 300 NA NA NA NA
Elmwood Bess Streeter Aldrich House & Museum 950 900 450 775 1,200 500
Beatrice Big Indian NRD Recreation Area NA 12,000 10,000 6,050 2,500 2,000
Hastings Bill Smith Softball Complex and Nebaska Softball Hall of Fame 100,000 NA NA NA NA NA
Crete Blue Valley Vineyard 500 NA NA NA NA NA
Clarkson Bluebird Nursery, Trial Gardens & All American Display Gardens 6,000 NA NA 20,000 NA NA
Sprague Bluestem State Recreation Area 76,859 NA NA NA NA NA
Albion Boone County Historical Society Museum NA NA NA 386 NA NA
Albion Boone County Raceway NA NA NA NA 478 NA
Loup City Bowman Lake State Recreation Area NA NA NA 222 2,500 NA
Hemingford Box Butte Lake State Recreation Area 70,000 NA NA NA 70,000 NA
Fort Calhoun Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge 35,000 20,979 15,000 16,375 21,610 10,346
Omaha Boys Town NA NA NA 94,000 98,700 56,200
Malcolm Branched Oak State Recreation Area 834,259 NA NA 550,000 500,000 400,000
Bridgeport Bridgeport State Recreation Area 31,820 13,988 9,793 13,603 20,274 19,250
Brownville Brownville Historical Society Museum 546 1,961 1,270 284 NA NA
Brownville Brownville State Recreation Area 5,000 NA NA 10,000 NA NA
North Platte Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park & State Recreation Area 37,594 53,027 NA 52,150 51,531 12,293
Tekamah Burt County Museum 1,860 4,500 3,375 2,300 2,800 1,900
David City Butler County Museum 53 20 NA 44 11 10
Butte Butte Community Historical Center and Museum 175 150 NA 400 NA NA
Sidney Cabela's 750,000 1,025,000 NA 1,508,058 825,000 220,000
Kearney Cabela's 1,120,000 750,000 205,395 NA NA NA
Burwell Calamus Reservoir State Recreation Area 307,800 318,867 288,780 312,104 355,458 250,000
Burwell Calamus State Fish Hatchery 3,120 3,589 2,583 3,308 2,477 1,762
Cambridge Cambridge Museum 911 747 NA 848 628 365
Alliance Carhenge 30,000 37,000 27,000 60,000 36,000 33,000
Alliance Carnegie Arts Center 4,246 3,350 960 3,732 3,227 1,052
Brownville Carson House 884 NA NA NA NA NA
Plattsmouth Cass County Historical Society Museum 1,342 1,663 960 1,521 1,567 950
Hartington Cedar County Historical Museum NA NA NA NA 400 100
Valentine Centennial Hall 500 647 525 NA 379 379
Alliance Central Park Fountain 1,500 NA NA 740 700 700
Milligan Ceski Bratri Cemetery and Pioneer Chapel NA NA NA 648 750 600
Chadron Chadron State Park 219,606 223,885 184,365 206,209 205,655 112,170
Champion Champion Mill State Historical Park & Recreation Area 14,955 13,000 8,300 8,000 8,000 6,300
Hastings Chatauqua Pavilion 2,500 NA NA NA NA NA
Champion Chase County Historical Museum NA NA NA 1,500 880 880
Valentine Cherry County Historical Society Museum 400 369 294 500 450 20
Elm Creek Chevyland U.S.A. Auto Museum 1,408 1,535 1,200 1,218 1,267 1,000
Bayard Chimney Rock National Historic Site and Visitors Center 34,826 35,000 26,000 NA NA NA
Nebraska City Civil War Veterans Museum NA NA NA 500 500 400
North Platte Cody Go-Karts Family Fun Park NA 80 NA 8,819 10,633 9,973
Ainsworth Coleman House Museum 123 123 NA 175 241 74
Columbus Columbus Racetrack 50,000 48,000 48,000 54,000 75,000 75,000
Homer Combs School 3,000 3,300 98 NA NA NA
Emerald Conestoga State Recreation Area 161,985 NA NA NA 250,000 NA
Crofton Corps of Discovery Welcome Center 12,000 19,500 15,000 22,500 NA NA
Kearney Cottonmill Park NA 221,600 170,000 228,000 NA NA
Dakota City Cottonwood Cove Park NA NA NA NA 300 NA
Merriman Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area NA 12,500 12,000 361 754 428
Glenvil Country Harvest Pumpkin Patch LLC NA NA NA NA 5,000 300
Arthur Courthouse Museum NA NA NA NA 73 51
Norfolk Cowboy Trail Trailhead NA 20,000 15,000 NA 10,000 10,000
Alda Crane Meadows Nature Center 21,500 3,000 300 10,000 NA NA
Crawford Crawford Museum 250 NA NA NA NA NA
Oshkosh Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge 4,000 6,000 2,000 NA 10,000 3,000
Broken Bow Custer County Historical Museum 3,000 2,901 701 2,000 4,000 3,000
Pierce Cuthills Vineyards 8,089 6,865 4,596 NA NA NA
Prague Czechland Lake 10,000 1,500 NA NA 1,500 NA
Dalton Dalton Prairie Schooner Museum NA 200 200 500 NA NA
Wellfleet Dancing Leaf Earth Lodge & Cultural Learning Center 4,900 4,750 3,900 5,300 4,300 2,100
Dannebrog Danish Capital of Nebraska 3,600 3,000 2,000 2,000 1,700 1,355
North Loup Davis Creek Reservoir 17,735 24,760 16,900 54,760 NA NA
Chadron Dawes County Historical Society Museum 2,580 2,780 2,300 2,094 2,327 2,100
Lexington Dawson County Historical Museum NA 7,965 1,400 2,000 NA NA
Lexington Dawson County Speedway NA 9,000 1,600 NA NA NA
Scribner Dead Timber State Recreation Area 26,300 23,750 10,500 15,500 10,000 4,500
Blair DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge 274,189 270,000 156,000 306,401 362,427 91,500
Alliance Dobby's Frontier Town NA NA NA 2,500 3,000 2,000
Burwell Dream Weaver Cabin NA 1,500 1,000 NA NA NA
Comstock Dowse Riverview Homestead 2,550 NA NA NA NA NA
Omaha Durham Western Heritage Museum 125,000 190,000 90,000 140,000 95,525 23,919
Eagle Eagle Raceway 125,000 81,000 NA 140,000 55,253 40,000
Aurora Edgerton Explorit Center 15,495 15,795 3,478 16,722 13,234 1,568
Omaha El Museo Latino 62,225 50,000 NA 50,000 50,000 NA
Chadron Eleanor Barbour Cook Museum of Geology NA NA NA NA 1,000 NA
Norfolk Elkhorn Valley Museum & Research Center 5,519 5,130 1,122 3,740 2,290 814
Elwood Elwood Reservoir/Wildlife Management Area 4,500 5,000 3,700 NA NA NA
Enders Enders Reservoir State Recreation Area 44,826 40,740 30,000 43,000 43,000 33,000
Ashland Eugene T. Mahoney State Park 1,004,650 1,100,000 360,000 1,085,600 1,000,000 600,000
Ord Evelyn Sharp Airfield 1,000 1,200 1,000 600 NA NA
Fairbury Fairbury City Museum 385 562 64 400 536 181
Fairbury Fairbury Rock Island Depot Museum 2,542 5,290 4,600 NA NA NA
Fairmont Fairmont State Airfield NA NA NA 10,000 NA NA
Cambridge Faling Living History Tour Home 2,000 1,500 50 NA 1,800 600
Gering Farm & Ranch Museum 3,852 5,237 3,820 3,567 5,024 NA
Morrill Fillingham Exotic Animal Farm 600 1,700 1,700 NA NA NA
Fairmont Fillmore County Museum 1,500 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 900
Clearwater Filsinger Deere Shed NA 256 NA 300 300 NA
Gering Five Rocks Amphitheater 12,000 16,000 16,000 6,787 5,000 5,000
Omaha Florence Mill 825 225 225 NA NA NA
Lincoln Folsom Children's Zoo & Botanical Gardens 170,333 162,500 87,200 176,238 177,000 140,000
Grand Island Fonner Park 250,000 300,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 NA
Bellevue Fontanelle Orchard 12,000 NA NA NA NA NA
Bellevue Fontenelle Forest Nature Center 47,398 90,000 NA NA NA NA
Fort Calhoun Fort Atkinson State Historical Park 41,020 37,000 22,750 42,050 115,622 101,250
Burwell Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park 25,000 NA NA 23,000 NA NA
Kearney Fort Kearny State Historical Park 58,990 60,000 45,000 52,000 50,000 41,000
Kearney Fort Kearny State Recreation Area 120,800 121,000 90,000 120,000 120,000 88,550
Maxwell Fort McPherson National Cemetery 20,000 3,000 3,000 NA NA NA
Valentine Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge NA 143,000 120,000 120,000 120,000 NA
Crawford Fort Robinson Museum 14,620 13,739 7,090 NA NA NA
Crawford Fort Robinson State Park 341,685 357,932 301,800 NA 352,064 307,889
Sidney Fort Sidney Museum and Post Commander's Home 2,758 2,808 1,353 2,639 2,303 1,029
Lincoln Frank H. Woods Telephone Pioneer Museum 400 NA NA 793 NA NA
Franklin Franklin County Historical Museum 497 NA NA 449 825 750
Omaha Freedom Park, USS Hazard/USS Marlin 30,000 NA NA NA NA NA
Fremont Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad 20,000 NA NA NA NA NA
Fremont Fremont Dinner Train 9,330 9,763 2,990 NA NA NA
Fremont Fremont Historic Visitors Center 800 328 146 481 548 338
Fremont Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area 817,460 837,600 443,850 76,000 NA NA
Ogallala Front Street/Cowboy Museum 85,495 80,000 40,000 NA 185,865 42,563
Omaha FunPlex 200,000 NA NA 200,000 150,000 150,000
Arapahoe Furnas & Gosper Counties Museum & Historical Society 661 NA NA NA 292 161
Beatrice Gage County Historical Museum 6,225 5,721 1,945 5,793 5,000 2,480
Cozad Gallagher Canyon State Recreation Area 2,943 3,000 2,600 2,598 NA NA
Burwell Garfield County Historical Museum NA NA NA NA 409 300
Genoa Genoa Historical Museum 605 486 300 908 1,402 901
Genoa Genoa Indian School Museum 1,279 1,581 847 2,013 2,185 1,440
Kearney George W. Frank House 1,905 1,517 632 902 414 213
Geneva George W. Smith House NA NA NA NA 250 NA
Omaha Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center NA 3,000 800 2,000 NA NA
Gibbon Gibbon Heritage Center NA 30 30 NA 94 45
Lincoln Gladys Lux Historical Center 300 250 100 9,873 NA NA
O'Neill Goose Lake Wildlife Management Area 6,175 NA NA NA NA NA
Lincoln Grandpa John's Farm 15,000 2,500 50 NA NA NA
Hyannis Grant County Museum NA 200 NA 200 NA NA
Lincoln Great Plains Art Collection 9,250 14,050 NA 12,832 10,464 NA
Kearney Great Platte River Road Archway Monument NA 163,000 80,000 147,000 127,362 NA
Greeley Greeley County Historical Society Courthouse Museum NA 550 0 81 98 26
Greenwood Greenwood Historical Society Depot Museum NA NA NA NA 100 20
Wahoo Hanson House 72 117 33 60 NA NA
Curtis Hansen Memorial Museum NA NA NA NA 200 200
Scotia Happy Jack Peak & Chalk Mine 7,238 4,085 3,687 2,500 NA NA
Orleans Harlan County Museum 700 685 NA 571 483 NA
Alma Harlan County Reservoir 550,479 596,593 392,647 505,594 478,527 267,122
North Bend Harold & Leona's Toyland and Museum NA NA NA NA 800 700
Minden Harold Warp Pioneer Village 65,200 63,194 37,083 59,052 NA NA
Hastings Hastings College Observatory (Sachtleben Observatory) 625 800 300 1,000 48,469 27,578
Amherst Harvest Moon Farms NA NA NA NA 7,000 0
Hastings Hastings Museum/Lied Super Screen Theatre/J.M. McDonald Planetarium 98,988 95,087 23,976 84,949 82,567 33,715
Arthur Haybale Church NA NA NA NA 73 51
Lincoln Haymarket Park 251,425 400,000 250,000 NA NA NA
Arthur Haythorn Ranch Tours & Figure Four Traditions Event Center 1,100 9,322 1,502 8,000 NA NA
Omaha Heartland Gondolas NA NA NA NA 12,585 10,150
Lexington Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles 8,572 8,838 4,332 9,264 NA NA
Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo 1,178,338 1,420,556 680,305 1,350,000 1,535,662 755,099
Hay Springs Heritage Center I & II 230 300 300 150 200 200
Chadron High Plains Herbarium NA NA NA 200 310 50
Omaha Historic Florence NA 625 NA NA NA NA
Omaha Historic Haymarket District 52,000 NA NA NA NA NA
Bellevue Historic Sites of Bellevue 13,774 12,795 3,400 9,266 10,203 1,585
Steele City Historic Steele City 600 600 600 NA NA NA
Trenton Hitchcock County Museum 297 263 222 249 337 245
O'Neill Holt County Historical Society Museum NA 600 NA NA 600 500
Gretna Holy Family Shrine NA 18,000 11,000 43,800 NA NA
Beatrice Homestead National Monument of America 52,000 52,330 21,370 52,000 46,986 24,053
St. Paul Howard County Historical Village 650 700 628 563 544 394
Crawford Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed Enclosure 2,182 3,200 3,200 3,033 2,600 2,427
Rose Hutchinson Buffalo Ranch 600 NA NA 1,300 NA NA
Lincoln Hyde Memorial Observatory 5,450 4,376 1,091 4,983 2,530 513
Shubert Indian Cave State Park 93,688 120,962 38,011 120,000 144,033 46,810
Lincoln Inter. Headquarters of the Amer. Hist. Society of Germans from Russia 10,000 1,320 800 700 NA NA
Lincoln International Quilt Study Center NA 1,039 640 NA NA NA
Grand Island Island Oasis Water Park 107,000 129,657 129,657 114,000 75,000 75,000
Falls City Itha Krumme Memorial Arboretum NA NA NA NA 300 250
Raymond James Arthur Vineyard 12,000 15,000 12,000 15,000 12,000 10,000
Nebraska City John Brown's Underground RR & Historic Village Foundation 9,000 NA NA NA NA NA
Bancroft John G. Neihardt Center 2,958 2,296 900 2,439 1,600 500
Tecumseh Johnson County Historical Society 369 116