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Sherman Reservoir SRA
Drive-up · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE · 41.31900, -98.89969
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Nebraska State Recreation Area (NGPC), Sherman County. The park's own page says: "Sherman Reservoir offers more than 300 non-pad sites without electricity and about 60 electrical campsites." The park's own page does not mention water. Assume none and carry your own; treat all natural water here as NOT potable. NOTE FOR REVIEW: our map already carries 'Sherman Reservoir WMA' about 0.73 mi away (published) -- check these are genuinely different places to camp.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Sherman Reservoir SRA
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,156 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Sherman 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 Sherman 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
- @Mail5 mi
- FFuel19 mi
- HHardware20 mi
- GGrocery20 mi
- RxPharmacy37 mi
- MMechanic37 mi
- +Urgent care39 mi
- LLaundry39 mi
- EVEV fast charger39 mi
- OOutfitter43 mi
- WWater57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 57-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 19 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 39-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: 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 — Sherman Reservoir SRA
Access
Drive-up
Land
Nebraska Game & Parks
Elevation
2,156 ft
State
NE
Coordinates
41.31900, -98.89969
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Sherman Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSherman Reservoir · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~18.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~19.7 mi
- HardwareQuick's Ace Hardware · ~19.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Sherman Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger39.4 mi straight-line SE — Grand Island Motor Company · EV Connect · J1772, CCS · 3 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 12 within 50 · 38 within 100 · 85 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)43.3 mi — Grand Island, NE - Tesla Supercharger, Grand Island
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO39.5 mi — GIMC HYUNDAI WEST DETAIL, Grand Island
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)19.7 mi — Valley County Hospital, Ord, NE · Blink 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 356169 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Sherman Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletDavis Creek Vault Toilet 4 Building · ~9.8 mi NE · BoR
- Vault / pit toiletDavis Creek Vault Toilet 3 Building · ~9.8 mi NE · BoR
- Vault / pit toiletDavis Creek Vault Toilet 1 Building · ~9.8 mi NE · BoR
- Vault / pit toiletDavis Creek Boat Ramp Vault Toilet Building · ~9.9 mi NE · BoR
Coming out here — Sherman Reservoir SRA · Nebraska Game & Parks · NE
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Sherman Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, under 0.1 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.
- 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.
Open Sherman Reservoir SRA elsewhere
Other camps near Sherman Reservoir SRA
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Sherman Reservoir WMA~0.7 mi
- Davis Creek WMA~10.4 mi
- Loup Bottoms WMA~15.0 mi
- Scotia Canal WMA~18.1 mi
Who holds the land at Sherman Reservoir SRA
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Sherman Reservoir, manager on record: Bureau of Reclamation (federal). Our own record names NGPC as the manager. The two sources disagree, and we have not checked which is right. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Sherman 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
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/sherman-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.
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 Sherman 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 — Sherman Reservoir SRA
Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Reading the aerial →All field notes →