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The recreation area surrounds the Enders Reservoir, a reservoir on Frenchman's Creek, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Enders, or about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) southeast of Imperial. The recreation area is managed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. [1] There are camping, fishing, swimming, and other recreational opportunities available.
The 8,362-acre (3,384 ha) refuge (46% in Iowa, 54% in Nebraska) preserves an area that would have been otherwise lost to cultivation. In 1960, an Army Corps of Engineers channelization project on the Missouri River moved the main river channel in the area to the west. The former river channel became DeSoto Lake, a seven-mile long oxbow lake. As ...
The lake has a surface area of 255 acres (103 ha) and is a day-use facility offering two modern playgrounds, baseball diamonds, soccer fields, a football field, hiking and bicycling trails, and a universally accessible fishing dock. According to the Nebraska Game and Park Commission, Zorinsky Lake was stocked with 79 largemouth bass on April 16 ...
Dead Timber State Recreation Area is a Nebraska state park in Dodge County, Nebraska in the United States. The park is 200 acres (81 ha) and sits at an elevation of 1,266 feet (386 m). [ 1 ] The park is open for year-round recreation including fishing, camping, and non-powered boating. [ 3 ]
3,399.7 acres 1,375.8 ha: Petroglyphs; restored village of St. Deroin: Niobrara State Park: Knox: 1,236.59 acres 500.43 ha: Includes the historic Niobrara River railroad bridge. Platte River State Park: Cass: 452.5 acres 183.1 ha: Modern observation towers, vintage cabins from earlier campgrounds Ponca State Park: Dixon: 2,123.63 acres 859.40 ha
Largest lake entirely within the State of Nebraska. Lake Minatare: 2,158 Scotts Bluff NE of Scotts Bluff Ogallala 650 5 mph Keith near Ogallala Maskenthine 98 5 mph Stanton North of Stanton Medicine Creek 1,850 Frontier near Cambridge Merritt Reservoir: 2,900 Cherry: near Valentine Midway Canyon Reservoir: 607 Dawson: south of Cozad Mud Lake ...
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission established the 250-acre (100 ha) Smith Falls State Park through a lease agreement with Krzyzanowski family in 1992. A new 25-year lease was signed in 2018. [6] Footbridge. In 1996, the historic Verdigre bridge was moved to the park and reconfigured as a footbridge spanning the Niobrara River.
In February 2008 the Nebraska Game and Parks and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exterminated 69 feral hogs from the Harlan County Lake area. They were shot from a helicopter by a professional sharpshooter from the Kansas Wildlife Services. A large amount of native prairie and woodland have been converted back over the years in the area.