Grand Island (Nebraska)

By car

Interstate 80 (I-80) runs just south of Grand Island. Exits 312, 314 and 318 lead into the city. US Highway 30 cuts from the southwest corner to the northeast corner of town. US Highway 34 runs out of town to the east, paralleling I-80.
NE Highway 2 runs out of the city to the northwest.
US Highway 281 cuts through the city north to south.

By plane

• Central Nebraska Regional AirportServed by American Eagle twice daily to Dallas/Fort Worth and Allegiant Air to Las Vegas and Phoenix/Mesa

By bus

Arrow/Trailways Lines (800-992-4618)

By shuttle

Eppley Express provides limited shuttle service between Omaha and several Nebraska cities including Kearney, Grand Island, Hastings, Lincoln and York. Two pick-up/drop-off locations are available in Omaha: Eppley Airfield and Holiday Inn at 72nd & Grover just north of I-80. Service is limited to specific days and times depending upon your destination. Reservations available on-line.

By Handi Bus

Public shuttle service for the Greater Grand Island Area (308-385-5324)

By taxi

Action Cab & Courier (308-381-1010)

• Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer

  phone: +1 308 385-5316
  address: 3133 W US Hwy 34
  A large scale indoor/outdoor museum dedicated to the Nebraska frontier and the pioneers who settled those lands. Exhibits include a replica 1800s plains town where visitors can interact with exhibits, walk inside the many buildings/houses on the campus and observe an 1800s train station along with older farm equipment used in the area.

• Townsley-Murdock Trail Site

  phone: +1 308-382-4400
  address: Platte River Valley
  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1998, this site contains one of the only remaining ruts on the Mormon Trail. The 2.4-acre site is west of and adjacent to the Wood River Crossing area. Upon leaving the Wood River Crossing, travelers were funneled onto a narrow ridge, which separated the winding Wood River from the wetlands of the Platte. Every traveler on this trail was forced onto this narrow pathway, creating the wide and shallow swale, which remains today. The name of the site comes from the first owners of the land, originally settled by Marshal Townsley around 1860 and later occupied by Phineas and Catherine Murdock in 1866. Survey notes from 1866 note this tract of land contained the Murdock home, a sawmill and a telegraph line. This sawmill probably supplied the railroad ties for the first transcontinental railroad by Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s as it was located just one mile south of the tracks.

• Art in the Park

  address: Stolley Park
  A juried summer art festival operating since 1982.

• Nebraska Danger Football

  address: Heartland Events Center 700 East Stolley Park Rd.
  The Nebraska Danger, central and western Nebraska's newest indoor professional football team and member of the IFL, was founded October 4, 2010 in Grand Island, Nebraska, by Charlie Bosselman and is owned and operated by the Bosselman Companies/Bosselman Entertainment, LLC.

• Godfathers Pizza

  phone: +1 308-384-9090
  address: 1916 S. Locust
  Dine-in, delivery, pick-up at drive-thru. Daily lunch buffet from 11AM-2PM. Wednesday night buffet from 5-8PM. In business for over 30 years. Customers say they have the best pizza!

• Fazoli's

  phone: +1 308-382-5133
  address: 2010 W 2nd St
  Fazoli's serves America premium quality Italian food, fast, fresh & friendly.

• Sonic Drive In

  address: 805 Diers and 2117 S Locust
  Two locations serving burgers, fries, coneys, and the best soft drink and ice tea in town

• Grandma Max's

  address: 3335 West Wood River Rd.
  Voted America's Best Truck Stop Diner in 1997 by truckers around the country, travelers can always depend on a warm welcome and a home-cooked meal. Over 150 different menu items are prepared from Grandma Max's own recipes, using only the freshest ingredients.

• The Chicken Coop

  phone: +1 308-398-2500
  address: 120 E. 3rd St.

• Hampton Inn Grand Island

  address: 504 North Diers Ave

• Days Inn Grand Island

  phone: +1 308-210-9541
  address: 2620 North Diers Ave

• Comfort Inn

  phone: +1 308-381-7788
  address: 3535 West State St

• Motel 6

  phone: +1 308 384-6666
  address: 7301 Bosselman Ave.

• Midtown Holiday Inn

  phone: +1 308-384-1330
  address: 2503 South Locust St
  Full service Holiday Inn with 13,800 square feet of meeting room space.

• Island Inn Motel

  phone: +1 308-382-1815
  address: 2311 South Locust
  Independent AAA approved comfortable, clean, well-maintained inn.

• Rodeway Inn

  phone: +1 308-384-1333
  address: 3205 S Locust St

• Grand Island Tourist Information Caboose

  address: I-80 exit 312
  at Bosselman travel center

• Grand Island Hall County Convention & Visitors Bureau

  phone: +1 308-382-4400
  address: 2424 S Locust St, Ste C

• Omaha- 80 East. About 3 hours away.
• North Platte- 80 West. About 1½ hours away.
• Hastings- 34 West. About 35 minutes away.
• Aberdeen SD- 281 North. About 6 hours away.