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Blue Ox Campground and Plant Tours Come with a Dose of the HistoricWest



If you'sre crossing the country this travel season, Blue Ox invites you to take a pleasant diversion from the main Interstates right into the heart of the Great Plains. Blue Ox is extending a special invitation to all RVers to visit its campground and manufacturing facility in Eastern Nebraska. The Pender area also features a number of historic sites and lively recreational venues nearby.



All Blue Ox customers stay at the campground for free, while non-customers pay only $15 a night. The campground has full sewer and electric hookups, with primitive camping sites also available. Tours of the Blue Ox manufacturing facility are conducted each weekday at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Summer picnics and ice cream socials are planned, and customers may schedule maintenance on Blue Ox products. To make arrangements, or for more information, call toll-free, 800-228-9289, ext. 3107, or email mandyjohnson (at) blueox (dot) us. Group tours are especially encouraged to call ahead.



Blue Ox is a leading manufacturer of tow bars, baseplates, braking systems, towing accessories, hitches, sport carriers and steering controls, all manufactured at its Pender facility. The plant tour shows the broad family of Blue Ox products, including recent innovations like the new BedSaver hitch accessory for fifth wheels that prevents truck bed damage.



Located just west of The Wide Missouri, and about 40 miles southwest of Sioux City, Iowa, Pender rests in an area where early explorers got their first look of the great West beyond the Missouri River. You can get a healthy taste this Western flavor in nearby Bancroft, where you'sll find the John G. Neihardt Center, which celebrates the life and work of this Nebraskan who was a famous poet and chronicler of Western life and Indian culture. For a different taste, you can also head west to Pierce and the Cuthills Vineyards -- Nebraska'ss first winery that produces wines from 100 percent Nebraskan grown grapes and raspberries. Sweet!



Also to the west is the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park -- a unique fossil field created by the ash from a volcanic explosion 12 million years ago, which left skeletal fossils of a variety of prehistoric animals preserved in their death positions, including giant camels, rhinos, horses, sabre-toothed deer (yes, sabre-toothed deer!) and giant tortoises.



Heading back toward the Missouri you can take an historical and scenic tour on the Nebraska Lewis and Clark Scenic Byway along U.S. Highway 75 between South Sioux City and Omaha. Views include wooded bluffs, open bottomlands, bountiful cropland, historic waterways and such sites as Fort Atkinson, the first military post west of the Missouri River.



Several casinos are also located in the Pender area, and there is a multitude of other recreational and entertainment options in nearby Sioux City, and also further south in Omaha.



For more information about Blue Ox, its products, and things to do in Eastern Nebraska, visit www.BlueOx.com or call 800-228-9289.






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