Grant, NE

Grant, a farming town of 1,400 people, serves as the Perkins County seat in Nebraska's Sandhills region. Reach it via US Highway 61, about 30 miles north of Interstate 80 at Big Springs. The area supports cattle ranching and dryland farming across rolling grasslands under expansive prairie skies. The 1925 red brick courthouse dominates the town square and can be spotted from miles away across the flat landscape.