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Overview of Mormon Island State Recreation Area - Facts, Trivia, and Historical Information : Named for the winter stopover used by Mormon emigrants heading westward Mormon Island State Recreation Area still offers comfort and conveniences to campers and other travelers on Interstate 80 as part of Nebraskas unique "Chain of Lakes" With development of I-80 in the early 1960s then Game and Parks Commission Director Mel Steen saw the potential to create recreation and beauty out of the "borrow pits" left as fill material was removed for construction These pits would quickly fill with water

Services, Activities, Amenities, Attractions in Mormon Island State Recreation Area: There are picnic facilities, a shelter house and restrooms. Swimming is allowed only at the marked swimming beach. Change houses are provided. Mormon Island SRA offers modern camping facilities, restrooms, electrical hookups, a shower building and a laundromat. A trailer dump station and abundant picnic tables and firegrates are also available. All camping is limited to three days. This area and companion Windmill SRA near Gibbon are the most intensely developed, because of their ready access to

Contact Information:
Address:Mormon Island SRA, 7425 S US Hwy 281. Doniphan, NE 68832-9526
Phone No:(308) 385-6211

Hotels Close to Mormon Island State Recreation Area

Howard Johnson Hotel Riverside (4 miles - starting at $52)

Hampton Inn Grand Island (7 miles - starting at $79)

Comfort Inn Grand Island (8 miles - starting at $64)

Days Inn Grand Island (8 miles - starting at $54)

Comfort Inn Kearney (38 miles - starting at $59)

Motel 6 Kearney (38 miles - starting at $44)

Country Inn Suites Kearney (38 miles - starting at $75)

Americinn Kearney (38 miles - starting at $64)

Attractions Near Mormon Island State Recreation Area

Beaches

Ocean Beach County Park (158 miles)

Lakes

Red Willow Reservoir State Recreation Area (101 miles)

Willow Creek State Recreation Area (102 miles)

Atchison State Fishing Lake (187 miles)

Lake Thompson (243 miles)

Walgren Lake State Recreation Area (252 miles)

National Parks

Homestead National Monument (88 miles)

Pipestone National Monument (243 miles)

Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad (243 miles)

Chimney Rock National Historic Site (260 miles)

Badlands National Park (272 miles)

River

Elkhorn River (109 miles)

Dismal River (120 miles)

Smoky Hill River (142 miles)

Arkansas River Valley (225 miles)

James River (267 miles)

State Parks

Fort Kearney State Historical Park and Recreational Area (38 miles)

Prairie Dog State Park and Norton Wildlife Area (109 miles)

Platte River State Park (113 miles)

Waubonsie State Park (140 miles)

Mushroom Rock State Park (146 miles)

For more Information about Mormon Island State Recreation Area Kindly visit the official website:http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/parks/guides/parksearch/showpark.asp?Area_No=123

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