ROADS LESS TRAVELED
NOTE: Sowbelly Road, featured in this trip, is minimum maintenance and receives no snow removal. Road closed signs go up in the fall and stay well into spring when the last drifts finally melt, which is far later than on the surrounding plains. Please plan accordingly.
Discover Northwest Nebraska’s Monument Road Trip will take you through a variety of landscapes as you explore the extreme northwest of Nebraska. Rich in history and beauty, this tour provides opportunities for sightseeing, birding, hiking, fishing and photography along a loop that, driven with only short stops, takes about two-and-a-half hours to complete.
This trip is about 50 miles in length.
Drive north on Monroe Canyon Road to the first stop on the tour, the Gilbert-Baker Recreation Area at the bottom of Monroe Canyon. The campground is a bird watcher’s paradise and the creek flowing through is one of few in the state where trout reproduce naturally.
