Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway

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“If I'm lucky I hope to pass your way many times again. I took Highway 2 from Grand Island to Ellsworth, and then up to Gordon on my way to Casper, Wyoming, from St. Johns, Michigan. It was just a little out of the way but I'll never regret it. The people are as beautiful and serene as the land. It is a great place to vacation, 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 Highway 27, twenty-five miles up the road from Highway 2, that site was special too. The incredible scenery, and the feeling I had such a place of surreal beauty all to myself, cannot be reproduced anywhere else. It was an amazing experience. I think about Highway 2 all the time. It brings me great peace just knowing a place like yours exists in our world today. May God bless.” Kevin Hayes St. Johns, Michigan, USA Author of "Don't Vote For Me" and "Kickland"

Beautiful Nebraska!! And I thought it was flat!

“From the first time I ever drove along it, I’ve been in love with Highway 2. It’s not so much that there’s 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 thehundreds of thousands of acres of grass – and hundreds of thousands of acres of sky. Like the sea the emptiness of the Sandhills gives the travelers a strange sense of comfort, there’s a feeling that as long as 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.”