Tourism department program lets Nebraska vacationers earn prizes for taking in sights

Seeing the sights can earn Neb vacationers prizes

LINCOLN, Neb. — Folks vacationing in Nebraska can win prizes if they see enough of the sights this summer.

The state Travel and Tourism Division has come up with the Nebraska’s Byways Passport Program.

Twenty-seven attractions are listed on a souvenir passport. These locations across the state also are where travelers can pick up the passport and start playing. Tourists receive a stamp at each stop.

At the end of the trip, visitors send in a tear-out sheet from the passport. If the passport has nine stamps, travelers get a Nebraska Byways T-shirt; 18 stamps, a digital photo frame; and 27 stamps, a flip video camera.

All players will be entered in a grand prize drawing for a laptop computer, to be drawn in October.

For a list of participating sites, go to www.visitnebraska.gov.