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Niobrara SP

Drive-up · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE · 42.76230, -98.06646

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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), Knox County. The park's own page says: "Niobrara State Park has a large campground with Electric Plus and Basic campsites. Several electrical RV sites feature accessible amenities . Campground amenities include drinking water, modern restrooms, coin-operated showers, dump and fill station, picnic tables and grills. For campers that don't need electricity, Niobrara State Park offers 30 Basic campsites tucked into the hills overlooking the Niobrara and Missouri Rivers. Grills , picnic tables and fire rings are provided. Restrooms and drinking water are located nearby. During peak season, reservations are accepted for 75% of the electrical campsites at Niobrara State Park. All other camping is first-come, first-served. Campers with reservations 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. After-hour arrivals or during the off season, campers must register their nightly camping fees in a raised, locked box called an Iron Ranger, which is generally located near the park entrance or campground area. Self-service envelopes are provided at each iron ranger station (check or cash only)." 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 'Niobrara Confluence WMA' about 1.26 mi away (published) -- check these are genuinely different places to camp.

USGS topo — contours & terrain

Aerial — USGS / NAIP

Weather outlook — at Niobrara SP

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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,424 ft.

Fire & smoke — around Niobrara 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 Niobrara SP · 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

DDump1 mi
ShShower1 mi
FFuel2 mi
GGrocery2 mi
MMechanic2 mi
@Mail2 mi
+Urgent care12 mi
HHardware24 mi
RxPharmacy35 mi
AAir-up35 mi
EVEV fast charger36 mi
WWater36 mi
LLaundry58 mi

≤30 mi30–4545+water

The read: water is a real 36-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 36-mi run (and back).

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 — Niobrara SP

Access

Drive-up

Land

Nebraska Game & Parks

Elevation

1,424 ft

Ground slope

9.4% · noticeable

State

Coordinates

42.76230, -98.06646

Cost

Fee

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

Water featureMedicine Creek · ~0.8 mi · USGS: perennial stream
Drinking waternone within 10 mi
FuelFuel · ~1.8 mi
Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
Dump station~0.7 mi
GroceriesGrocery · ~1.8 mi
Hospital / clinicSantee Health and Wellness Center · ~11.8 mi
HardwareAce Hardware · ~24.3 mi
Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi

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

Nearest public DC fast charger35.7 mi straight-line SW — NPPD EV STATION ONEILL CUB DCSW, O'Neill, 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 · 1 within 50 · 33 within 100 · 90 within 150
Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)60.1 mi — Norfolk, NE - Tesla Supercharger, Norfolk
Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)57.6 mi — COV CITY HALL CITY HALL, Vermillion, SD · 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 319692 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center

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

No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.

Coming out here — Niobrara SP · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE

Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Medicine Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.8 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 9.4% — 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.
No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on 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 Niobrara SP

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Who holds the land at Niobrara SP

USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Niobrara State Park, manager on record: Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.

How we know this — Niobrara 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

Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.

How it was placed

Camping confirmed on the park's own NGPC page, https://outdoornebraska.gov/location/niobrara/, 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.

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 Niobrara 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 — Niobrara SP

Water on public land →Fire rules & restrictions →Getting unstuck →How to read this page →All field notes →

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