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Eugene T. Mahoney State Park is a public recreation area located on the Platte River, off Interstate 80, approximately four miles (6.4 km) east of Ashland, Nebraska.The state park features lodging and conferencing facilities, an aquatic center, marina, multi-purpose trails, the Kountze Memorial Theater, multiple facilities for event rentals, and a 70-foot (21 m) observation tower overlooking ...
Chadron State Park: Dawes: 974.26 acres 394.27 ha: Nebraska's oldest state park Eugene T. Mahoney State Park: Cass: 673.101 acres 272.394 ha: Multiple recreational and meeting facilities, fronted by the Platte River: Fort Robinson State Park: Dawes, Sioux: 22,332.72 acres 9,037.73 ha: Former U.S. Army fort Indian Cave State Park: Nemaha ...
A spur highway is a highway which goes from a primary highway to a city or state park not on any other highway. A recreation road is a road in a state park, which is designated as such by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission , though maintained by NDOT.
Salt Creek (Pawnee: Káʾit Kiicuʾ [3]) is a tributary of the Platte River, located in Saunders, Cass, and Lancaster counties in southeast Nebraska.It is approximately 44.38 miles (71.42 km) in length. [2]
After resigning as the Director of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Mahoney served as director of the Omaha Zoo Foundation. He died on July 15, 2004, in Omaha. Eugene T. Mahoney State Park, located on the Platte River, off Interstate 80, approximately four miles (6.4 km) east of Ashland, Nebraska, is named in honor of him.
In cooperation with local and state hiking organizations, the route of the NCT was superimposed on all 310 miles (499 km) of the Superior Hiking Trail in Minnesota, [10] about 900 miles (1,400 km) of the Buckeye Trail in Ohio, [11] [12] and about 430 miles (690 km) of the Finger Lakes Trail in New York State.
The park opened in 1933 on land donated to the village by the Mahoney family, who required that the land become a park as a condition of their donation. Landscape architect Jens Jensen designed the park; while Jensen designed many private estates in the 1920s, his 1930s work was less prolific and focused on projects with personal significance ...
Writer and backpacker Andrew Skurka says the Superior Hiking Trail is one of his ten favorite hikes in America. [10] In 2005, Reader's Digest listed the Superior Hiking Trail as one of the "5 Best Hikes in America," [11] and in 2015, The Guardian included the trail among the "top 10 long-distance hiking trails in the US." [12]