by Norman Nielsen | Sep 15, 2026
Chadron State Park is near Chadron, in Dawes County, Nebraska. Established in 1921, it is Nebraska’s oldest state park, spanning 974 acres of pine-forested bluffs, and offers camping, cabin rentals, a swimming pool, horseback riding, hiking, and fishing.
by Norman Nielsen | Sep 15, 2026
Fort Kearny State Recreation Area is near Kearney, in Kearney County, Nebraska, along the Platte River. The 186-acre site is dotted with seven sandpit lakes and offers camping, fishing, no-wake boating, and hiking and biking, and is known for spring sandhill crane...
by Norman Nielsen | Sep 15, 2026
Fort Robinson State Park is near Crawford, spanning Dawes and Sioux counties, Nebraska. At 22,333 acres it is Nebraska’s largest state park, occupying the site of a former U.S. Army fort, and offers camping, lodging, horseback riding, a museum, and a summer...
by Norman Nielsen | Sep 15, 2026
Indian Cave State Park is near Shubert, spanning Nemaha and Richardson counties, Nebraska, along the Missouri River. The nearly 3,400-acre park preserves a sandstone cave with prehistoric rock carvings and the reconstructed 1850s village of St. Deroin, and offers...
by Norman Nielsen | Sep 15, 2026
Johnson Lake State Recreation Area is a 68-acre park on a 2,068-acre irrigation reservoir near Elwood, in Gosper County, Nebraska. Part of the Tri-County Canal system, the lake is popular for walleye, white bass, and wiper fishing and offers campgrounds, boat ramps,...
