Red Cloud finally has a hotel worthy of its literary reputation. Hotel Garber occupies the restored 1902 Potter-Wright Building downtown — 27 rooms plus a deluxe loft, all done in the warm, uncluttered style the building deserves — and sits steps from the National Willa Cather Center.
This is Cather country, and the hotel knows its audience: readers, Opera House attendees, and travelers doing the full prairie pilgrimage. Forrester’s Restaurant handles breakfast through dinner, and the staff has the small-town gift of remembering your name by the second morning.
Pair it with the Willa Cather Foundation’s tours — the childhood home, the Opera House — and you’ve got the most literary weekend in Nebraska.