Soldier Creek (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
Soldier Creek Campground is adjacent to Soldier Creek Wilderness Area and Fort Robinson State Park. This spacious campground has eight sites with picnic tables and fire rings, and it is large enough to accommodate horse trailers or RVs. There is a hand pump well providing drinking water, vault toilets, garbage cans and a large 15-paddock corral system with a round pen. Livestock feed is not available. Certified weed-free hay is required, and stock water must be hauled to the corral from nearby creeks or hand pump. Keep reading
Recreation
The Soldier Creek Wilderness is adjecent to the campground which contains two popular trails. The Boots & Saddle Trail is 7.1 miles and is accessed from the North Fork Trailhead. The trail ties into the Trooper Trail. Trooper Trail Loop is 9.7 miles and is accessed from the Middle and South Fork Trailheads located in the campground. Trail brochures are available at the campground. 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
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…hand pump well providing drinking water, vault toilets, garbage cans and a large 15-paddock corral system…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “There is a hand pump well providing drinking water, vault toilets, garbage cans and a large 15-paddock corral system with a round pen.”
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:39 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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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 15:39 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
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.
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| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | 515 ft | $15 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Cottonwood Springs Campground51 miFrom Crawford, NE take U.S. Highway 20 for 2.5 miles to Fort Robinson, then north on Soldier Creek Road for 6 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Crawford, NE
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 15°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
Soldier Creek (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 →