Nebraska Horse Council

Branched Oak Lake, with the assistance of the Nebraska Horse Trails Committee has been awarded a grant of $52,000 for a new horse camp in their state park! Nebraska Game and Parks and the Nebraska Horse Trails Committee worked diligently with assistance from the National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program to design a new horse camping area at Area 2, south west end of the lake. Primitive camping will be allowed there now with access to trails on the south side of the Branched Oak Lake. Bathrooms, corrals and other amenities are part of the plan and we hope to see it come to fruition later in 2009!

Park Superintendent Tom Morrison said that Area 3 (see map) will remain a campsite for horses and they have made the hiker/biker trails northeast of Area 3 available to horses, adding more horse trails at Branched Oak Lake. Area 3 has water and bathrooms available. You may tie to your trailer or put up electric fence at either of these campsites.

The trails at Branched Oak are multi-use trails, so please be respectful of other trail users and practice shared trail etiquette. To preserve trails, trails may be closed when wet. Mr. Morrison has requested that we no longer use Area 14 by the dam as a parking area for horses.

This is great news for horse trail riders. Please remember to give the Game and Parks and Superintendent Tom Morrison a huge “Thank you!”.

http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/parks/places/campmaps/maps/branchedoak.pdf

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