Platte River State Park Address
14421 346th Street
Louisville Nebraska
Park Size: 418 acres
Nebraska’s Platte River State Park offers cabins, 10 miles of trails, 135 picnic tables (82 grills), fishing, swimming pool, paddle boat rental, and a snack bar (at Jenny Neuman Lake). The official website even says you can rent a teepee!
This state park is about 32 miles from Omaha, according to Mapquest.
Walking in to the Platte River State Park waterfall is not too strenuous a hike, and make sure you bring a camera with. The trail through the woods to the falls crosses a couple nice little bridges. Our first hike in to the falls seemed long, but subsequent hikes in didn’t seem far at all.
There is a nice little waterfall is fed by Stone Creek.
We’ve only made a few trips in to the waterfall, have never really seen at an impressive level. We have always been able to cross Stone Creek without getting our feet too wet, of course it may not be that way year round.
Near the parking lot and trail entrance there is a small picnic area. If the birdhouse is still there, you may want to have your picnic as close to the birdhouse as possible. A small bird (wren?) nesting there did not seem to mind our presence at all, and made quite a few trips back and forth as we sat less than ten feet away.
There is a not too bad pit toilet here, but, as with any pit toilet, we’d recommend it for emergency use only. No running water!
