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Guide to Lincoln, USA - Nebraska
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LincolnThe capital city of Nebraska, Lincoln, is a well-appointed architectural and historic center in the lower eastern quadrant of the state. Offering up a great display of concrete landmarks from the State Capitol to the Bank of Commerce Center, Lincoln continues to draw more and more people to its streets year after year. If you're looking for art, Lincoln has it covered. A visit to the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden will have you hard pressed to retain your glee, and even the city's botanical garden holds a gorgeously crafted, slightly erratic quality to its piece of the landscape, all providing enough incentive to journey out to this middle-America complex that one often wonders if the capital went collecting for tokens among more popular US destinations. Have you made a family vacation of the trip? If so, you can be sure that both children and adults alike find the Folsom Children's Zoo a fantastic place to spend an afternoon, and though staff typically keep close tabs on feedings, it's possible to slip a banana and/or a few nuts into the cages to give those in captivity a few tasty morsels of the outside world. Take a recreational tour inside the popular Wilderness Park on the 13-mile-long Hiking Trail, a path cleared alongside Salt Creek bringing you to points below thick canopies, within meadows of wildflowers, and to the native camping grounds of many species smaller than thou. Whether you're interested in miniature train rides, reliefs, pre-historic remnants or the hypnotic effects of a laser show, Lincoln avails to you a great array of sights and activities. Most of all, you'll get to experience Nebraska's finest.
When to go:
Home of chilly winters, tepid shoulder seasons and relatively mild summers, Nebraska is one of few states in the central North American nation with a great grab bag of goodies in the way of weather conditions, and though the entire block is cloaked by many in the tourism industry as a no-go for travel - purportedly for it's dull attributes - you can guarantee yourself the best chance for climatic success among all of the region's bordered land-grabs. Lincoln is most vibrant in summer, but you'll hardly miss out on anything if you choose to come at a "slower" time.
Getting there and around:
Lincoln Airport is a distant second in terms of flights per day/year when sized up with Kansas City's schedule; being the largest and busiest airport in the state will have to do. When you arrive in Lincoln - most overseas visitors stop over in East Coast USA before connecting the third dot - you'll be provided with airport shuttles and car rental agencies, both of which have their benefits, but neither seems to cater to all needs. We recommend renting a car simply for the ease of which one can travel past Lincoln's limits. Central Lincoln is easily navigable by foot, and if you're ever in the situation where directions are a necessity, locals are surprisingly willing to offer their two cents.
Attractions:
Scoped out the Governor's Mansion? Taken a look at a fair share19th-century art deco inside the Kennard House? There's still more to do. For the broader Nebraskan landscape, look to the Fremont & Elkhorn Valley Railroad. The cars in which you travel are authentic 1920s contraptions, and if you're OK with spending a good bundle on choice services, a weekend dinner train is a transit vehicle that will surely give you an appetizing Saturday and Sunday.
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