Driving tour with your own vehicle

Duration

3 hours

About

The Country Tour highlights twenty historic sites related to the life and writing of Willa Cather. You may schedule a guided tour of these sites by contacting the Willa Cather Foundation, or you may purchase a detailed Country Tour Book for a self-guided tour. On the Country Tour, visitors drive themselves through roughly fifty miles of the Webster County countryside, including settings from My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, One of Ours, short stories ""Neighbour Rosicky"" and ""Peter,"" and others, as well as many scenes from Cather's own life—the Cather homesteads and the prairies and river where the Cather children played and explored. Roads are not always passable during inclement weather, so please plan accordingly.

""As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea…and there was so much motion in it, the whole country seemed somehow, to be running."" — My Ántonia

More Info

We encourage all guests to download our National Willa Cather Center mobile app to access additional information and book passages related to our tours.