Roberts Tract (NE) Nebraska NF
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 41 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Roberts Tract Campground and Trailhead provides three camp sites with tables and fire rings, an eight-paddock corral system, rider ramp and stock water. The parking area has one site with a table and fire ring for those with horse trailers or campers. Stock water is available, weather permitting. Certified weed-free hay is required. Keep reading
Recreation
Roberts Loop Trail (2.5 miles) begins at the campground and provides access to the Pine Ridge National Recreation Area and Pine Ridge Trail. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (308) 432-0300.
What the agency tells you
Camping fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable between operators. Recreation.gov does not accept payment from foreign bank accounts or travelers' checks.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:41 UTC
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 4 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“$7.50/extra vehicle Interagency Senior/Access Recreation Passes provide a 50% discount to single campsites ONLY. *The discount applies only to the fee for the campsite physically occupied by the pass holder, no to any…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites · the site map
All 4 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 4 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Toadstool Geological Park and CampgroundOglala National Grassland · 25 mi
Toadstool (NE) Nebraska NFOglala National Grassland · 25 mi
Cottonwood Springs Campground57 miFrom Chadron at the intersection of Highway 385 and Highway 20, go southwest on Highway 20 for 9.4 miles to Eleson Road. Turn left and go south 3 miles, road jogs .5 miles to the west, then continue south 4 miles to Bethel Road (follow Pine Ridge Recreation Area signs). Follow Bethel Road East 1 mile to Forest Road #737. Travel on Forest Road #737 for 1 mile to Roberts Tract Campground/Trailhead.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Whitney, NE
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 13°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Roberts Tract (NE) Nebraska NF is in Nebraska’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Adrian Smith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →