Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters

In August 2025, we visited the Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters in Omaha, Nebraska. This Mormon Trail Center has amazing displays and a movie to watch. Next to the Mormon Trail Center is the Mormon Trail Cemetery and the Winter Quarters LDS Temple. The buildings and landscaping were amazing and well designed and maintained. We felt God's love and peace as we visited these places. We also better understood the challenges that these Mormon Pioneers went through in preparing for their long journey. We highly recommend the Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters to visit.

Beautiful visitor's center for Mormon Winter Quarters. Don't forget to get your pic taken pulling a handcart with a hat or bonnet!

We happened to be there over General Conference weekend and we were surprised to learn it was still open! Great tour guide missionaries (thankfully this time, we got the older missionaries and not the immature and cringy, young-adult sister missionaries that "helped" us the last time we visited.) 😳😬 The center was virtually empty and we were able to see everything we wanted to. It has a neat handcart that you can use and try for yourself. There are other displays with oxen, and the immigrant ship "Wyoming." Good quality displays! Don’t forget to go downstairs to see the art museum. The trail center is located next to the Winter Quarters temple and pioneer cemetery monument.

This is a true historical museum. It has authentic artifacts that belonged to the pioneers. There are very helpful tour guides (missionaries for the Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). The tour guides tell true stories about those crossing the plains and make it feel real. Some of the stories really hit home for me. They have some fun activities for kids and interactive activities as well.

This is the most moving and meaningful of the church history sites in the area, primarily because of the Pioneer Cemetery. I showed up later in the day and couldn't enjoy the Visitor Center, which I am sure is wonderful. That being said, be sure to walk across the street and spend some time in the grassy area behind the temple where the Pioneer Cemetery is located. If you have relatives buried here, the space is even more meaningful. The experience is enhanced even more if you use the Family Search app to help you identify family members buried at site. Directions are provided on little handouts near the sculpture and are easy to follow.

Very interesting site. Currently under construction, but it and the nearby pioneer cemetery were cool as they showed us how to easily see our own past relatives interred there (note: having an extensive Family Search history done made this possible, which is free). I apparently had 5 ancestors buried here!

This is a very nice historical museum, even if you are not affiliated with the Mormon church, like we are not. All of the staff are friendly, attentive and knowledgeable. We learned that the Winter Quarters is a milestone for the migration to Utah. There is an interesting 20-min video. No admission fee.