The Crane Trust Nature & Visitor Center, 9325 S. Alda Rd. just south of I-80 Exit 305 (Alda), is the visitor center of the Crane Trust, which protects nearly 10,000 acres of Platte River habitat for sandhill and whooping cranes. It has trails, an observation tower and footbridges over the river, and in spring offers paid guided driving tours and dawn and dusk river-blind tours. Phone (308) 382-1820.