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The Best Attractions In McCook

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McCook is a city in and the county seat of Red Willow County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 7,698 at the 2010 census.
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  • 2. Red Willow State Recreation Area Mccook
    Red Willow Dam is a dam in Frontier County, Nebraska, about ten miles northwest of McCook. The earthen dam was constructed from 1960 to 1962 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 126 feet. It impounds Willow Creek for flood control, part of the Frenchman-Cambridge Division of the Bureau's extensive Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program. The dam is owned and operated by the Bureau. The reservoir it creates, Hugh Butler Lake, has a water surface of 1,629 acres, 4,461 land acres, about 35 miles of shoreline, and a maximum water capacity of 86,630 acre-feet. Recreation includes fishing , hunting, boating, camping and hiking. The shore borders Nebraska's Red Willow Reservoir State Recreation Area.
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  • 4. Pioneer Village Minden Nebraska
    Pioneer Village is a museum and tourist attraction along U.S. Highway 6 in Minden, Nebraska, United States. Pioneer Village was founded in 1953 by Harold Warp, a Chicago manufacturer from Minden. The museum, a complex of 28 buildings on 20 acres with a total collection of over 50,000 items. The museum has a large collections of items from 1830 to the present, including frontier buildings, early cars and airplanes, tractors and other farm implements and an art collection. Over 350 antique automobiles are on display. The Pioneer Village also manages a motel and a campground as part of the complex.
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  • 5. Lake McConaughy Ogallala
    Lake McConaughy is a reservoir on the North Platte River. It is located 9 miles north of Ogallala, Nebraska, United States, near U.S. Highway 26 and Nebraska Highway 61. The reservoir was named for Charles W. McConaughy, a grain merchant and mayor of Holdrege, Nebraska, one of the leading promoters of the project. Although he did not live to see the completion of the project, his leadership and perseverance eventually culminated in a public power and irrigation project that helped Nebraska become one of the nation's leading agricultural states.
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