2015 Nebraska Attraction Attendance Counts
City Omaha Raymond Ogallala Omaha Ashland Louisville Fremont Ponca Louisville Omaha Crawford Venice Lincoln Omaha Burwell Hickman Hickman Ralston Shubert Omaha Omaha Omaha Minatare Nebraska City Chadron Wahoo Lincoln Ashland Niobrara Pierce Lexington
Name of Attraction Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium Branched Oak State Recreation Area Lake McConaughy State Recreation Area CenturyLink Center Omaha Eugene T. Mahoney State Park Platte River State Park Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area Ponca State Park Louisville State Recreation Area TD Ameritrade Park Omaha Fort Robinson State Park Two Rivers State Recreation Area Pawnee State Recreation Area Omaha Children's Museum Calamus State Recreation Area Stagecoach State Recreation Area Wagon Train State Recreation Area Ralston Arena Indian Cave State Park Lauritzen Gardens and Kenefick Park The Durham Museum Joslyn Art Museum Lake Minatare State Recreation Area Arbor Lodge State Historical Park Chadron State Park Lake Wanahoo State Recreation Area Lincoln Children's Museum Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari Niobrara State Park Willow Creek State Recreation Area Johnson Lake State Recreation Area
Total Attendance 1,679,324 1,381,724 1,292,034 1,100,000 1,066,650 891,304 876,375 785,444 496,850 466,000 441,365 395,789 383,453 302,901 296,813 286,485 274,202 230,578 228,650 222,402 196,782 179,416 172,520 164,000 159,675 145,412 144,190 143,668 139,289 137,050 132,270
% of Total Summer Attendance % of Summer Attendance from Out (Memorial DayAttendance from Out of State Visitors Labor Day) of State Visitors
10%
62,500
10%
30% 25% 21%
76,864 71,396 50,335
30% 29% 25%
3.60%
80,272
4.90%
2015 Nebraska Attraction Attendance Counts Gering North Platte Ashland Loup City Sprague Lincoln
131,153 125,950 107,168 95,404 92,575 87,022
Lincoln Cambridge Beatrice Denton Kearney Trenton Alliance Enders Crofton
Scotts Bluff National Monument Lake Maloney State Recreation Area Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum Sherman State Recreation Area Bluestem State Recreation Area State Capitol University of Nebraska State Museum of Natural History and Mueller Planetarium Medicine Creek State Recreation Area Homestead National Monument of America Conestoga State Recreation Area Fort Kearny State Recreation Area Swanson State Recreation Area Carhenge Enders State Recreation Area Lewis & Clark State Recreation Area
Omaha Kearney Doniphan Gibbon McCook Ogallala Greenwood Kearney Nebraska City Gretna Scottsbluff Kearney North Platte Bridgeport Fort Calhoun Bayard Valentine Valentine Anselmo
Mormon Trail Center at Historic Winter Quarters The Archway Mormon Island State Recreation Area Windmill State Recreation Area Red Willow State Recreation Area Front Street Baker's Candies Kearney Area Children's Museum Riverview Marina State Recreation Area Schramm State Recreation Area Riverside Discovery Center Fort Kearny State Historical Park Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center Bridgeport State Recreation Area Fort Atkinson State Historical Park Chimney Rock Merritt State Recreation Area Smith Falls State Park Victoria Springs State Recreation Area
57,182
51%
17,160
67%
83,740 80,600 78,739 74,340 72,600 68,750 65,272 58,480 57,650
17.91%
29,000
25.86%
78%
38,301
79%
57,015 55,936 53,850 52,960 52,845 50,453 50,000 49,406 49,000 40,400 37,881 36,055 32,609 32,526 27,810 27,367 27,052 26,255 24,925
47% 72%
19,587 27,968
84%
30% 10% 4%
21,939 10,000 14,538
70% 15% 39%
16%
20,208
18%
37,688
2015 Nebraska Attraction Attendance Counts
Gering North Platte Alliance Gibbon Kramer Tekamah Schuyler Beatrice Pawnee City Sutherland Fairbury Harrison Alexandria Fairbury Wood River Gering Lewellen Wahoo Columbus Red Cloud Red Cloud Ogallala Burwell North Platte Crofton Nebraska City York Avoca Scribner Ashland
Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area/Nature Center Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park and State Recreation Area Knight Museum and Sandhills Center Rowe Sanctuary and Iain Nicolson Audubon Center Olive Creek State Recreation Area Summit State Recreation Area St. Benedict Center and Benedictine Mission House Rockford State Recreation Area SchillingBridge Winery & Microbrewery Sutherland State Recreation Area Rock Creek Station State Historical Park Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Alexandria State Recreation Area Rock Creek Station State Recreation Area Cheyenne State Recreation Area Legacy of the Plains Museum Ash Hollow State Historical Park Saunders County Historical Society Museum Columbus Art Gallery Red Cloud Opera House Willa Cather State Historic Site Petrified Wood and Art Gallery Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park North Platte Area Children's Museum Corps of Discovery Welcome Center Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail & Visitor Center Wessels Living History Farm Bloom Where You're Planted Farm and Pumpkin Patch Dead Timber State Recreation Area Willow Point Gallery and Museum
23,713 23,621 23,089
32%
6,249
41%
17,000 16,320 15,800 15,541 14,278 13,264 12,319 12,314 12,250 12,218 12,050 11,608 11,371 10,253 10,253 10,180 10,004 10,000 9,847
20%
6,000
25%
2% 25% 38% 38% 93%
2,323
4.5%
3,545 3,545 6,015
15.0% 15.0% 94.0%
9,360 7,902
85% 10.98%
3,920 3,602
85.0% 13.66%
7,800 7,650 7,546
15%
450
5-10%
31%
3,254
11%
19,000 18,265 17,979
2015 Nebraska Attraction Attendance Counts
Hastings Kearney Lincoln Lewellen Columbus Nebraska City Bellevue Shelton Roca Minden Lincoln Merriman Aurora Lincoln Tekamah Plattsmouth Crawford Grant Alliance Verdon Beatrice Brownville Merriman Bancroft Ogallala Columbus Hemingford Omaha Ainsworth Cozad
Prairie Loft Center for Outdoor & Agricultural Learning Trails and Rails Museum Lux Center for the Arts The Most Unlikely Place Andrew Jackson Higgins National Memorial Wildwood Historic House, The Barn Art Gallery and Victorian Garden Sarpy County Historical Museum War Axe State Recreation Area WunderRosa Winery Minden Opera House Hyde Memorial Observatory Arthur Bowring Sandhills Ranch State Historical Park Plainsman Museum Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum Burt County Museum Cass County Historical Society Museum Hudson-Meng Research and Education Center Meadowlark Gallery/Perkins County Area Arts council Carnegie Arts Center Verdon State Recreation Area Gage County Historical Museum Meriwether Lewis Dredge and Missouri River History Museum Cottonwood Lake State Recreation Area John G. Neihardt State Historic Site Mansion on the Hill Platte County Historical Society Box Butte Reservoir State Recreation Area Love's Jazz & Arts Center Keller State Recreation Area Robert Henri Museum & Historical Walkway
7,476 6,620 6,252 6,000 5,100 4,510 4,200 4,050 3,500 3,500 3,465 3,190 3,077 3,071 2,725 2,700
30% 11% 6% 40% 45%
3,800 3,177 1,313 3,500 3,350
30% 16% 2% 50% 55%
19%
1735 1,700
24%
355 1,428
20% 15% 6% 7.50%
2,595 2,500 2,420 2,400 2,208 2,000 2,000 1,738 1,635 1,625 1,600 1,550 1,491 1,423
672 1,538 1,540 1,200
54% 15% 7% 12%
2,496 10.00% 7.28%
806
5.10%
3.08%
11
64.00%
12.00%
782 1,191 581
12.50% 59% 4%
5%
19%
2015 Nebraska Attraction Attendance Counts Lincoln Long Pine Elm Creek Weeping Water McCook Norfolk Alliance Wymore St. Paul Pierce Elmwood Ainsworth Tekamah Ashton Atkinson Chappell Ashby Allen Ainsworth Pender Thedford
Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery Long Pine State Recreation Chevyland U.S.A. Auto Museum Heritage House Museum Complex Senator George Norris State Historic Site NorthFork Outfitting Sallows Military Museum Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project Museum of Nebraska Major League Baseball Pierce Historical Society Museum Bess Streeter Aldrich House and Museum Sellors-Barton Museum Bryant House Polish Heritage Center, Inc. Atkinson Mill Race Park Sudman- Neuman Heritage House CaLinda's Pot Shop & Art Gallery Dixon County Museum The Coleman House Museum Heritage Museum of Thurston County Thomas County Historical Museum
1,015 911 887 880 784 780 756 712 693 616 600 436 435 308 288 252 172 156 131 100 100
4%
171
18%
75% 6.14%
472
60%
147 5% 31% 10% 16% 5% 25% 12% 13% 17% 16% 20% 5%
417 395 427 616 300 436 149 300 212 40 92 150
29% 8% 20% 5% 25% 19.3% 28% 13% 8% 42% 85% 5%
25% 31%
85 65
30% 29%