Fort Robinson State Park

State Park And National Historic Landmark (Former US Army Post And Red Cloud Agency) · Crawford, Nebraska

Fort Robinson State Park, west of Crawford in far north-western Nebraska, is a former US Army post turned into a large state park among the pine-covered buttes of the Pine Ridge. The post began in 1874 as a camp guarding the Red Cloud Agency, and it was here in 1877 that the Lakota leader Crazy Horse was fatally bayoneted, and here in January 1879 that Northern Cheyenne held captive in freezing barracks broke out in the Cheyenne Outbreak. Later the fort housed Buffalo Soldiers, the army's largest horse remount depot, a war dog training centre and a prisoner of war camp in World War II. The grounds, a National Historic Landmark, keep dozens of original and rebuilt buildings, a History Nebraska museum and the University of Nebraska's Trailside Museum of fossils, set in tens of thousands of acres with bison and longhorn herds and trails. Visitors can sleep in the old barracks lodge or officers' quarters. It is on Mountain time, and most services run only in summer: lodging, cookouts, rides and some museums shut or thin out from autumn to spring.

3200 US Highway 20, Crawford, Nebraska, 69339, United States

NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The typical pattern: the park grounds are open year-round, day and night, with an entry permit required for every vehicle. The lodge, restaurant and most cabins open roughly from spring to autumn; cookouts, jeep, stagecoach and horseback rides and the Trailside Museum run mainly from about Memorial Day to Labor Day. The Fort Robinson Museum keeps daily hours in summer and limited hours in the off season. All times are Mountain time. The traps are arriving off season expecting rides and meals, arriving without a lodging booking on a summer weekend and reading times on Central time. Confirm current times before relying on them.

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