I will be going to Omaha for Labor Day weekend. Besides the Zoo/Aquarium and Bene's Pizza, what else is worth seeing/would be fun for a 3 year old boy?
I will be going to Omaha for Labor Day weekend. Besides the Zoo/Aquarium and Bene's Pizza, what else is worth seeing/would be fun for a 3 year old boy?
SAC bomber museum, if you like airplanes, is one of the best aviation museums in the country. They've got a lot of BIG bombers on display indoors. B-36, B-47, Vulcan, B-29 and a hell of a lot of other planes.
-Hans
Quoted from HHaase:SAC bomber museum, if you like airplanes, is one of the best aviation museums in the country. They've got a lot of BIG bombers on display indoors. B-36, B-47, Vulcan, B-29 and a hell of a lot of other planes.
-Hans
This is neat my son liked it.
The Omaha Children's Museum is very nice and will keep little kids busy for a while. They do a special display upstairs, and they have tons of things for them to explore and play on. If there is a baseball game at Werner Park, that is also a very family friendly activity. The berm seats are $8 for adults and $1 for kids, and they have some fun stuff inside the park for the kiddos. FYI I have 4 kids, 7, 5, 2, and 7 months. Have a nice trip!
Union Pacific Museum in a former school in Council Bluffs (also where the train museum in a former train station is located) is well done. Look up hours for both as they may be limited for the Holiday week. Also stop at the Golden Spike Monument as well as the overlook where Abraham Lincoln made his proclimation where the railroad should go west. All in Council Bluffs.
Train museum used to be called the Durham Western Heritage museum, now just called the Durham. Excellent spot.
SAC museum is also great.
Children's museum usually gets really cool traveling exhibits (although I normally like the standard stuff at Lincoln Children's museum better)
Zoo is a given.
Have a great time!
There are a few candy stores in the Old Market - a few blocks/walking distance from the museum. The one on 12th and Jackson even has a couple of Pinballs (Elvis and Tales from the Crypt).
Also in the Old Market, on Howard Street between 12 and 13 is a vintage toy store - my kids love this place. It is huge and everything is very reasonably priced. Its called the Imaginarium. You can get out of here with a bag full of toys for $20.
When you go to the Zoo, there is a memorial to Rosenblatt stadium in the parking lot, where the CWS was played for decades. Let him run around the bases a few times
Have fun
There is a cool train you can ride at the zoo also, take the "round trip"
If you have never been to the Omaha zoo plan for a big day, it is amazing.
Thanks all. We plan on spending an entire day at the zoo/aquarium. My kid is a train nut so we will definitely ride the train at the zoo, probably a couple of times, and visit the Durham museum. The wife wants to go to the Market and I said I want to eat at Benes. Probably won't have time for SAC but we shall see.
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