People whose only experience with Nebraska often complain about the boring flat landscape. That may be true when 99% of visitors to Nebraska form their opinion through the windows of their cars while travelling along I-80, the highway that connects Boston and San Francisco.

Northwest Nebraska has very rugged and extremely isolated country. The Sandhills region, bisected by US Highway 2, is a veritable sea of steep sand dunes covered with tallgrass prairie and over a million acres of National forest comprised mainly of Ponderosa ... (more)