Prairie Playground is located near the Beatrice YMCA. If you are visiting for a tournament, rest assured the younger tikes will be busy with Prairie Playground.
Youngsters can imagine they are a train engineer or simply enjoy the variety of physical activities from monkey bars to swing sets at Prairie Playground. A wooden play area provides plently of climbing opportunities.
The original Carnegie Library, built in 1902-3, is an outstanding example of the Beaux-Arts style, designed by architect, George A. Berlinghof, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Beatrice, NE Carnegie Libraries
This popular 150-acre fishing and power boating lake has 286 land acres with plenty of room for picnicking, hiking, primitive camping, unsupervised swimming, fishing and hunting (in season). Facilities include drinking water and latrines.
Beatrice, NE Recreation
This limestone Richardson Romanesque structure with a clock tower was erected in 1890-1892, and has served as the location for the administration of local government and institutions for Gage County for over 100
Beatrice, NE Historic Courthouses
The Homestead Act of 1862 - By the 1850's, huge land acquisitions had filled out the continental United States. the country's sheer vastness strengthened the conviction that the public domain
Beatrice, NE National MonumentsThis impressive limestone church was erected in 1929
Beatrice, NE Historic ChurchesThis railway car holds some of the railroad items from the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Slaughter. The rest of the collec...
The Oregon Trail enters Nebraska and crosses the southwest corner of Gage County. In ...