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Fort Robinson SP

Drive-up · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE · 42.66779, -103.46566

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Nebraska Game & Parks lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.

Nebraska State Park (NGPC), Dawes & Sioux County. The park's own page says: "Fort Robinson State Park offers campers Full Hookup, Electric Plus, and Basic campsites within a scenic and historic backdrop of the Nebraska Pine Ridge. Red Cloud Campground offers 74 Full Hookup campsites, Soldier Creek Campground offers campers a shady campground with 77 Electric Plus and 22 Basic campsites. Mare Barn campground offers 28 Full Hookup sites and 20 Electric Plus campsites. Red Cloud, Soldier Creek and Mare Barn campgrounds offer advance reservations. Other camping amenities include modern restrooms, showers, drinking water, a dump and fill station, picnic tables and shelters. There is a coin-operated laundry facility for park guests located near the Mare Barn facilities. Camping reservations are available for half of the electrical campsites. All other camping is first-come, first-served. All campers should check in at the park office upon arrival. For those camping without reservations, please go to park office upon arrival to check availability and register to camp. Memorial weekend through Labor Day, the park office is open 24 hours so campers can register to camp or check-in on their camping reservation upon arrival. During the camping shoulder season, first-come, first-served walk-in guests will pick a campsite and pay at the office the next day." 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.

USGS topo — contours & terrain

USGS topographic map of Fort Robinson SP

Aerial — USGS / NAIP

Weather outlook — at Fort Robinson SP

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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,808 ft.

Fire & smoke — around Fort Robinson SPNIFC · 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 Fort Robinson SP · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE

Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer

Nearest of each

ShShower0 mi
@Mail3 mi
WWater22 mi
DDump23 mi
GGrocery25 mi
MMechanic25 mi
FFuel25 mi
EVEV fast charger25 mi
HHardware25 mi
LLaundry26 mi
RxPharmacy26 mi
+Urgent care53 mi

≤30 mi30–4545+water

The read: water is a real 22-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 25 mi out.

Not within 60 mi: 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 — Fort Robinson SP

Access

Drive-up

Land

Nebraska Game & Parks

Elevation

3,808 ft

State

Coordinates

42.66779, -103.46566

Cost

Fee

Nearby & resupply — around Fort Robinson SP · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE (OpenStreetMap)

Nearest townCrawford · ~2.8 mi
Drinking waternone within 10 mi
FuelConoco · ~25.3 mi
Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
Dump station~23.1 mi
GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~25.1 mi
PharmacyPetersen Drug · ~26.1 mi
HardwareArrow Building Center · ~25.4 mi

EV charging — from Fort Robinson SP · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)

Nearest public DC fast charger25.3 mi straight-line NE — NPPD EV STATION CHDRN BGBTS DCS, Chadron, NE · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 2 within 50 · 12 within 100 · 43 within 150
Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)50.5 mi — Lusk, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Lusk
Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)25.3 mi — CCH 825 CCH 2, Chadron, NE · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
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 311796 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center

Nearby restrooms — around Fort Robinson SP · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)

Vault / pit toiletSoldier Creek · ~6.0 mi W · USFS
Flush restroomHudson-Meng · ~13.0 mi NW · USFS
Vault / pit toiletToadstool · ~14.5 mi NW · USFS
Vault / pit toiletRoberts Tract · ~16.0 mi E · USFS

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Other camps near Fort Robinson SP

If this one is full, gated or washed out.

Fort Robinson WMA~2.9 mi
Peterson WMA~5.2 mi
Soldier Creek~6.0 mi · fee
Ponderosa WMA~8.2 mi

How we know this — Fort Robinson SP

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/fort-robinson/, 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/fort-robinson/ today (HTTP 200) and it STILL states camping. Camping detail read off that page today: Full Hookup, Electric Plus and Basic campsites; Red Cloud Campground has 74 Full Hookup sites and Soldier Creek Campground has 77 Electric Plus plus 22 Basic sites. NAME-COLLISION WARNING: those two park campground names are also the names of two separate Nebraska National Forest campgrounds -- NNF Red Cloud sits ~38 km east near Chadron SP and NNF Soldier Creek ~9 km west of the park. Different sites, different managers, different fees. Do not merge them. 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 Fort Robinson SP

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 — Fort Robinson SP

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