Available for Pre-formed Groups
Begins in Omaha, ends in Denver

NOTE: Many of the Oregon Trail sites visited on this itinerary are included in our June 18-24, 2011 Guaranteed Departure:  the Old West Trail.

Includes:  5 nights’ lodging, 5 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 3 evening meals, deluxe motorcoach, professional tour director/historian, all admission and park entrance fees, baggage handling, airport transfers

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Tour Highlights:

• Western Historic Trails Center
• Riverside Interpretive supper
• Mormon Winter Quarters
• Fallon’s Bluff
• Great Platte River Road Archway & Museum
• Fort Kearney living history
• Ash Hollow
• Scott’s Bluff National Monument
• Chimney Rock
• Oregon Trail campfire dinner
• Fort Laramie
• Oregon Trail ruts
• Living history

Tour Itinerary:

Day 1 – Airport transfers included.  Welcome dinner.  Overnight: Council Bluffs, IA. (D)

Day 2 – Visit the Western Historic Trails Center for an overview of greatest peacetime migration in the history of the world. Enjoy a special interpretive lunch on the banks of the Missouri River and visit the Mormon Winter Quarters where so many Saints perished while waiting for spring to arrive during their own migratory period. Overnight:  Council Bluffs. (B, L)

Day 3 – As we follow the Platte River, visit the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, an interactive adventure that pays tribute to the pioneers who passed through this region of Nebraska on their way West. Witness the thrill of news coming into a distant outpost, a buffalo stampede, the words and faces of those that lived and died on the route, and much more.  Tour  Fort Kearney, built in 1848 solely for the protection of emigrants, and hear the reminiscences of a ’52 pioneer.  Overnight:  Kearney, NE. (B)

Day 4 – Sweet spring water made Ash Hollow a major stopover on the Oregon Trail a welcome respite after negotiating the treacherous Windlass Hill, where wagon ruts remain to tell the story of the arduous lowering of wagons down the steep incline. Visit Scotts Bluff National Monument, perhaps the most famous landmark along the trail. Enjoy an Oregon Trail campfire cookout in the shadow of one of the trail’s most distinguished landmarks, Chimney Rock. We’ll sing songs around the campfire and reflect on the spirit of the pioneers who passed this way on their westward journey. Overnight:  Scottsbluff, NE. (B, D)

Day 5 – Tour Fort Laramie, a major military post along the Oregon Trail, and view  Wagon wheel ruts.  Visit Register Cliff, rising 100 feet above the prairie, with names and hometowns of thousands of pioneers who passed by in the 1850′s and 1860′s.  Farewell Dinner.   Overnight: Denver, CO. (CB, D)

Day 6 – Airport transfers included.  (B)