Welcome to Historic Red Cloud: Great Stories Grow Here!

Set amidst brick-lined streets, charming homes, historic buildings, and the immense beauty of the prairie, Red Cloud offers a glimpse into a storied American past while maintaining a progressive vision for the future. Willa Cather’s prairie novels introduced the world to the community and have left indelible impressions in the minds of her readers. Yet rich literary history is only one part of this unique town’s present-day draw. Your off-the-beaten path adventure will let you explore a rural lifestyle while also immersing yourself in arts, culture, history, and recreational pursuits.

 
 

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Red Cloud Tourism and Commerce

Community News

June 12, 2023

by Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine

Great Plains novelist Willa Cather grew up in Red Cloud, and this year the small Nebraska town is celebrating the 150th anniversary of her...READ MORE...

February 29, 2024

Learn more about summer events in Red Cloud, the RC Booster Club's Soup Cookoff, the new exhibit at the Farmers & Merchants Bank, get to know Ana Armstrong, and much more in this month's...READ MORE...

 

Events

@Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery
March 12, 2024 to March 27, 2024


Wednesday, Feb 28 - Wednesday, Mar 27, 2024 | All day

The Red Cloud Opera House and the Red Cloud Area Artists Club will once again be hosting the Association of Nebraska Art Clubs Award of Excellence traveling show, February 28 to March 27, 2024. 

Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery
March 19, 2024 to May 12, 2024

“The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one’s feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. ... Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!”

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Virtual Author Series
March 21, 2024
7pm to 10pm: Live at On the Brix
March 23, 2024

Live music from Nebraska music legend and former The Voice contestant Josh Hoyer! Hoyer will from 7pm to 10pm. $10 per person.