Scout: Dry Goods & Trade

Marlon Brando appeared on stage at the Omaha Community Playhouse. Today, you can see this nationally recognized community theater group provide live theater entertainment, like productions of Broadway hits including Chicago and Hairspray. Performances take place on the stage of one of the playhouse's two theaters, the Howard and Rhonda Hawks Mainstage Theater or the Howard Drew Theater.

From first-class miniature golf to a challenging climbing wall, Boulder Creek Amusement Park makes for family friendly fun. The park even features batting cages where skills can be honed and challenges made. If you're hungry after a long day of play, then visit the Coney Stop, where you can enjoy classic coneys, great sandwiches and cool drinks.

Enjoy the great outdoors at the Omaha Botanical Gardens, as you meander through the living museum growing four seasons of plant displays. The colorful gardens grow alongside many intriguing, unusual and equally colorful landscape sculptures. This city garden offers the best garden clubs and great local events.

Enter through a wrought iron door that weighs a ton at the Joslyn Castle Trust to gain entrance to Omaha's historic landmark treasure the grand castle once belonging to George and Sarah Joslyn, founders of the Western Newspaper Union. Tour the halls of their lavish 35-room castle to see ornate ceilings, staircases, fireplaces, furnishings and stunning formal gardens outside.