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Enders Reservoir SRA
Drive-up · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE · 40.42887, -101.53892
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Nebraska State Recreation Area (NGPC), Chase County. The park's own page says: "Enders Reservoir SRA has Electric Plus, Primitive and Basic campsites. Two electrical RV sites also offer accessible features . Other amenities include showers, modern restrooms, drinking water, grills, picnic tables and shelters, fish cleaning station and a dump and fill station. During peak season, camping reservations at Enders can be made for half of the campsites; the other half are first-come, first-served. Campers at first come, first serve sites must register their nightly camping fees in a raised, locked box called an Iron Ranger. Self-service envelopes are provided at each station and accept cash or checks only. Areas with reservable campsites become first-come, first-served sites during nonpeak season." The park's own page lists drinking water in the campground. That is the agency's claim about a developed tap, not a field check, and not a claim about any lake or river here -- treat all natural water as NOT potable. NOTE FOR REVIEW: our map already carries 'Enders Reservoir WMA' about 1.02 mi away (published) -- check these are genuinely different places to camp.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Enders Reservoir SRA
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,185 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Enders Reservoir SRANIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Enders Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail2 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- MMechanic29 mi
- +Urgent care33 mi
- EVEV fast charger43 mi
- RxPharmacy47 mi
- HHardware47 mi
- LLaundry49 mi
- ShShower54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 7 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 43-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Water, Dump, Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Enders Reservoir SRA
Access
Drive-up
Land
Nebraska Game & Parks
Elevation
3,185 ft
Ground slope
10.5% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~1.5 mi · main line
State
NE
Coordinates
40.42887, -101.53892
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Enders Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureEnders Reservoir · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~7.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesFrenchman Valley Farmers Co-Op · ~8.0 mi
- Nearest rail line~1.5 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
EV charging — from Enders Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger43.2 mi straight-line SW — Cobblestone Inn - Tesla Supercharger, Wray, CO (at a hotel) · Tesla · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 29 within 100 · 56 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO48.2 mi — Walmart 7129 (Ogallala, NE), Ogallala
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)41.3 mi — Highline Electric Association, Holyoke, CO (at an utility) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-09-12 · hours: 7am - 5:30pm
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.53 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 462305 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Enders Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomArea A Campground-Precast Restroom 3 Building · ~0.8 mi E · BoR
- RestroomArea A Campground-Precast Restroom 4 Building · ~0.9 mi NE · BoR
- RestroomCow Beach Day Use Area-Precast Restroom Building · ~0.9 mi NW · BoR
- RestroomArea A Campground-Block Restroom 2 Building · ~1.0 mi E · BoR
Coming out here — Enders Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Enders Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 10.5% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Rail line mapped ~1.5 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
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Other camps near Enders Reservoir SRA
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Enders Reservoir WMA~1.0 mi
- Wanamaker WMA~10.1 mi
How we know this — Enders Reservoir SRA
Permit
A valid park entry permit is required for all vehicles entering a state park area. Nebraska licensed vehicle: daily permit $7, annual permit $35. Non-Nebraska licensed vehicle: daily permit $14, annual permit $70.
Source
Nebraska Game & Parks (state parks and recreation areas)
Confidence
Agency-confirmed — The managing agency's own record names this as a campsite and puts it at these coordinates. About as good as it gets short of standing here.
How it was placed
Camping confirmed on the park's own NGPC page, https://outdoornebraska.gov/location/enders-reservoir/, read 2026-08-17. Point from the NGPC Parks_Locations FeatureServer (https://services5.arcgis.com/IOshH1zLrIieqrNk/arcgis/rest/services/Parks_Locations/FeatureServer/0), the layer behind the agency's Public Access Atlas; it is a park-level point and may not sit on the campground loop. NGPC statewide rates, https://outdoornebraska.gov/parks/park-pricing/ (read 2026-08-17): camping Primitive $10/night year-round, Basic $15, Electric $25, Electric Plus $30, Full Hookup $35; off-season (roughly mid-Oct to Apr) all tiers $5 less except primitive, which stays $10. A park entry permit is required on top of the camping fee: $7/day or $35/year on a Nebraska-plated vehicle, $14/day or $70/year otherwise. Lake McConaughy and Smith Falls are the two parks priced off this card. Stay limits are posted per park -- several NGPC pages state 14 consecutive days in any 30-day period; confirm on site. Modern facilities (showers, dump/fill, full hookups) are generally closed mid-Oct through April. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go. | nightshift-verified 2026-08-18: RE-FETCHED the park page https://outdoornebraska.gov/location/enders-reservoir/ today (HTTP 200) and it STILL states camping. Camping detail read off that page today: Electric Plus, Primitive and Basic campsites; two electrical RV sites offer accessible features; in peak season half the campsites are reservable and half first-come; Iron Ranger self-pay. Separate campground maps for Area A, Area B and Center Dam. NGPC statewide rates were NOT re-read this fire; the rate text already in this note dates from 2026-08-17 and should be re-checked before it is quoted on a page.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Enders Reservoir SRA
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Enders Reservoir SRA
Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →