The Cowboy
Recreation &
Nature Trail
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View a Cowboy Trail Slide Show on Flickr. If you have photos you would like to have included in this slide show email your photos to ngpc.trails@nebraska.gov
Born in the 1870s as a route to Black Hills gold, this 321-mile railroad corridor created and supplied settlements across northern Nebraska. Soon after the trains stopped in 1992, Rails to Trails Conservancy purchased the right-of-way for the nation's longest recreational rail-to-trail project.
