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Camping in Nebraska

Bevteacher4
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Hello All,
Will be traveling through Nebraska from Custer State Park, back to Indiana and wondering about you places I should make sure and stop at on my way home.
Also, if I should ever stay someplace that does not have a dump station, where do you go to dump tanks?
Thanks,
Bev
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Acdii
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Pine Grove RV park right off I-80 between Lincoln and Omaha is a nice place to stay, been there twice. Lots of things within a short drive time from there. The SAC museum is one exit down to the east on 80, and south of that is a wildlife refuge with Bison and bears and wolves. Omaha has a really great zoo too that you need 2 days to see it all, and I highly recommend eating at King Kongs across the street from the zoo. There is also an old railroad terminal that is a museum, really nice place to visit to learn about that areas railroading during it's heyday.

MissouriBird
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Take time to visit the Arch over I-80 near Kearney if you are at all interested in history. It tells the story of the settling of the west, from the Oregon Trail days to the building of the Interstate System in a very high-tech, hands-on multi-media way.

Especially good if you have kids. I taught 5th and 6th grade Social Studies for years. Would have loved to have been able to take my students to it for a field trip each year. Very well done. Plan on an hour or two.
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CharlesinGA
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I really liked The Nebraska NATIONAL Forest, Bessey Recreation Complex Campground at Halsey. I stayed there the night of the solar eclipse. It was full, I got the last space. Nice place with good walking trails, just off of NE highway 2. Site fee was $11 in 2017. New showers, real nice. It is America's only HAND PLANTED forest! They started planting trees on the sand hills in the 1930's.

A couple of miles east of downtown Chadron on US 20 is the Museum of the Fur Trade......

https://www.furtrade.org/

Well worth a couple of hours of your time.

If you go down to Alliance to pick up highway 2, stop at Carhinge, for a few moments and pay homage to the American automobile.

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Lwiddis
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Places to see in Nebraska...let me ponder this.
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2oldman
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Dick_B wrote:
If it was me I would do a Google search for `Nebraska tourism'
Tell 'em again Dick! Not confident OP is coming back.
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Dick_B
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If it was me I would do a Google search for `Nebraska tourism' and read what is recommended; ditto search for `Nebraska campgrounds' or check your campground directory. Don't have one! Why not?
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TexasShadow
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Chadron State Park, 9 miles south of Chadron, on 385, is a really nice little state park.
as stated, highway 2 is more scenic. At Halsey, there is the Nebraska State Forest Nursery and there is camping there.
But be aware that highway 2 is on a main train line with trains running all night long. ๐Ÿ™‚
We like overnighting at Sidney because it has a walmart and cabelas. and cabelas has a nice rv park.
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2oldman
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Iraqvet05
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Dick_B
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If it was me I would do a Google search for `Nebraska tourism' and read what is recommended; ditto search for `Nebraska campgrounds' or check your campground directory. Don't have one! Why not?
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Iraqvet05
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We came down 385 from Custer and stayed in Kearney, NE last month. My in-laws live in Kearney so we stayed a few nights. We stayed at Ft Kearny SP this time but have also stayed at Windmill SP a bit further east of Kearney. Windmill was not easily accessible last month due to overpass decking construction. Ft Kearney and Windmill are well kept but get fairly crowded and neither have water at the sites. The dump station at Ft Kearney was wide enough to handle 2 TTs side by side. There's a newer commercial CG closer to the interstate at Kearney but I'm not sure if they are open...that area had some major flooding a few weeks ago.
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caver
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If you get away from I80 there are often small towns that welcome tourists with a cheap/free campsite. Towns like Holdrege, Hastings, Nelson, Deschler etc. The Arch at Kearney is pretty cool as I mentioned in another thread. I've passed under that thing many times and never stopped.

RoyF
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If you drop down to Nebraska Hwy 2 and take it east, you will have good scenery, good road, and there are some very nice and also inexpensive campgrounds in several towns along the way. We stayed at the city-run campground in Broken Bow, NE. There was no host -- leave the money in a dropbox.

WayneAt63044
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A couple of places we have overnighted is Branched Oak Lake State Recreation Area near Raymond north of Lincoln (you could get some kayaking time in)and Cabela's campground in Sidney. Most state parks will have a dump station as do Flying J truck stops. Have you seen Chimney Rock about 45 miles NW of Sidney or the old Pioneer Village Museum in Minden? There's a campground on the museum property.
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