Sandhill Crane Festival 2025 – and one of the best ways to see the birds en masse is at the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival. Othello is about 50 miles north of the Tri-Cities and near the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge . Feb. 9โOTHELLO โ The 26th annual Sandhill Crane Festival will be held in Othello from March 22 to 24 with a series of lectures, tours, hikes and activities located at Othello Church of the Nazarene, .
Sandhill Crane Festival 2025 Monte Vista Crane Festival โ Where the Cranes Meet the Mountains: While the Monte Vista Crane Festival celebrates “unmatched scenery” for viewing, Kearney, Neb. (about a five-hour drive from Denver) calls itself “the sandhill crane capital of the world.” . Sandy, the 6-year-old sandhill crane who left Porter County last month for a new home at the Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., emerged from quarantine .