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Parks in Nebraska

Explore 27 parks and public lands with richer details on amenities, trail access, and park types.

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Nebraska

In the early 1900s, paleontologists unearthed the Age of Mammals when they found full skeletons of extinct Mio…

ParkNational Monument

Almena Diversion Dam

Nebraska

The Almena Diversion Dam is located 8 miles east of Norton, Kansas along the valley of Prairie Dog Creek in no…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Arcadia Diversion Dam

Nebraska

Arcadia Diversion Dam is on the Middle Loup River about 8.5 miles upstream from Arcadia, Nebraska. The projec…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Box Butte Reservoir

Nebraska

Box Butte Dam and reservoir are features of the Mirage Flats Project. Recreation is managed for the Bureau of …

ParkNat'l Recreation Area
Branched Oak Lake

Branched Oak Lake

Nebraska

Branched Oak, NE, a State Recreation Area located 4 miles west of Raymond, NE on Oak Creek, boasts some of the…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Calamus Reservoir (Virginia Smith Dam)

Nebraska

Virginia Smith Dam (formerly called Calamus Dam) and Calamus Reservoir, North Loup Division, P-SMBP, are on th…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Davis Creek Reservoir

Nebraska

Davis Creek Dam and Reservoir are features of the North Loup Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. Res…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Enders Reservoir

Nebraska

Enders Dam and reservoir, Frenchman Cambridge Division, PSMBP, is managed for the Bureau of Reclamation by the…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Harry Strunk Lake (Medicine Creek State Park Recreation Area)

Nebraska

Harry Strunk Lake,

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Homestead National Historical Park

Nebraska

The Homestead Act of 1862 transformed the world. Millions were invited to file claims including, families, imm…

ParkNational Historical Park

Hugh Butler Lake (Red Willow Reservoir State Recreation Area)

Nebraska

Recreation at Hugh Butler Lake, Frenchman Cambridge Division, in southwestern Nebraska, is managed for the Bur…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Keith Sebelius Reservoir (Prairie Dog State Park)

Nebraska

Norton Dam and Keith Sebelius Reservoir are features of the PSMBP - Almena Unit. The reservoir is open 24 hour…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Lake Alice

Nebraska

The North Platte Project extends 111 miles along the river valley from Guernsey, Wyoming to below Bridgeport, …

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Lake Minatare State Recreation Area

Nebraska

Lake Minatare is a feature of the North Platte Project. Managed as a State recreation area by the Nebraska Ga…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Lake Winters Creek

Nebraska

Lake Winters Creek is one of the four Inland Lakes in Nebraska. It is located immediately northwest of Lake M…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail

Nebraska

The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail winds nearly 4,900 miles through the homelands of more than 60 Tri…

ParkNational Historic Trail
Merritt Reservoir

Merritt Reservoir

Nebraska

Merritt Dam, a feature of the Ainsworth Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, is on the Snake River 14 mile…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Nebraska National Forest

Nebraska

Home to the largest hand-planted forest in the Western Hemisphere at the Bessey Ranger District, Nebraska Nati…

222 sq mi
ParkNational Forest

Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands

Nebraska

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Niobrara National Scenic River

Nebraska

With a little something for everyone, the Niobrara National Scenic River is a destination for crossing adventu…

ParkNational Park
Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District

Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District

Nebraska

Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District is a management office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It w…

ParkNat'l Recreation Area

Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest

Nebraska

Located in the heart of Nebraska's Sandhills, the largest grass-stabilized sand dune formation in the Western …

181 sq mi
ParkNational Forest

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Nebraska

Towering 800 feet above the North Platte River, Scotts Bluff has served as a landmark for peoples from Native …

ParkNational Monument
Scotts Bluff National Monument

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Nebraska

Towering 800 feet above the North Platte River, Scotts Bluff has served as a landmark for peoples from Native …

ParkNat'l Recreation Area