Please share your Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway experiences with us.

The late Charles Kuralt says......

"Nebraska’s Highway 2 is one of America’s 10 most beautiful highways" exclaiming, "This road will take you to one of the last unexplored frontiers where vast treasures can be discovered." "From the first time I ever drove along it I've been in love with highway 2. It's not so much that there a special something to see along Nebraska's Highway 2, there's a special nothing to see. From Grand Island to Alliance Highway 2 takes you through the Nebraska Sandhills. The largest area of sand dunes in the western hemisphere. Writers inevitably use a metaphor of the sea to describe the hundreds of thousands of acres of grass and hundreds of thousands of acres of sky. Like the sea the emptiness of the Sandhills gives the traveler a strange sense of comfort. There's a feeling that if these two things are in order, the earth and the sky, all the rest can be forgotten until tomorrow. Highway 2 is not just another highway that goes somewhere Highway 2 is somewhere."

Kevin Hayes of St. Johns says......

If I'm lucky I hope to pass your way many times again. I took Hwy 2 from Grand Island to Ellsworth, and then up to Gordon on my way to Casper, WY from St. Johns, MI. It was just a little out of the way but I'll never regret it. I would love to vacation there, and just relax. I loved St. Anselm's Catholic Church, the jail, and "soddy" in downtown Anselmo. The store in Ellsworth where I purchased a cowboy hat was great. And even though the Mari Sandoz monument is on Hwy 27, twenty-five miles up the road from Hwy 2, that was special, too. The scenery and the feeling that I had about such a place of surreal beauty, to myself, was an amazing experience. I think about it all the time, and it brings me great peace just knowing a place like yours exists in our world today. May God bless.