Lake Minatare State Recreation Area

State: Nebraska

Address 1: PO Box 188

City: Minatatre

Zip: 69356

Phone: 308-783-2911

Open all Year: Yes

Number of Sites: 211

Electric: 52

Camp URL: http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/parks/guides/parksearch/showpark.asp?Area_No=121

Full Hook: Yes

Home of Nebraska’s only lighthouse and a federal waterfowl refuge, scenic Lake Minatare SRA covers 2,970 acres (2,158 acre lake), 12 miles NE of Scottsbluff.

Lake Minatare is just minutes from Scotts Bluff National Monument and Chimney Rock and offers camping pads with electrical hookups and more than 100 nonpad sites. Facilities include showers, laundry, modern restrooms, dump station, water, picnic tables, shelters, boat ramps, unsupervised swimming, fishing and fish cleaning stations.