From towering mountains to spacious grasslands, colorful old mining camps to dinosaur fossils, Colorado’s landscape offers a wealth of beauty and history. You can see all of this and more by exploring Colorado’s Scenic and Historic Byways, which were the focus of Overland Trail Museum’s History Café program Wednesday. The program provided details about just […]
We hope you will join us for our first 2024 History Café at the Overland Trail Museum, taking place on Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 10:30 a.m. in the High Plains Education Center. This month our theme will be the Colorado Scenic and Historic Byways. A short presentation in HPEC will be followed by a tour […]
Sterling’s Parks, Library and Recreation Board approved a change to Overland Trail Museum’s alcohol policy during a regular meeting on Monday, giving staff the ability to decide whether a police presence is needed. PLR Director Wade Gandee explained that one of the things the policy required from the beginning was to have a police presence […]
The Overland Trail Museum was filled with “The Sounds of Christmas” for its second Christmas on the Prairie open house Monday evening. Throughout the evening guests strolled the museum grounds and buildings, viewing all of the beautiful holiday decorations and the various exhibits the museum has to offer. Scenes inside the O’Connell house, Dailey Cash […]
Overland Trail Museum kicked off its holiday offerings Saturday with A Child’s Christmas on the Prairie/Blue Santa. Sterling Police Department and Logan County Sheriff’s Office partnered with the museum for the event. In exchange for bringing a non-perishable food item for Cooperating Ministry, children were able to visit with Blue Santa and SPD’s K9 Vader, […]