Lake View Point - Lake Minatare SRA

To use any Nebraska State Park you must first have a valid pass, both for your RV and if applicable, for your towed. As a non-resident, that totals $92 (in 2023). I've been to three Nebraska State Parks so far, and there is quite a variance in the look and feel of each. Lake Minatare is what I'd call minimalist. Paved roads and paved sites, with electricity. No water, no sewer (one RV dump station for 100 campsites). Potable water is available, just have a hose at least 100' long to reach the tap. I stayed in the 'Butte View' camping section; the only view of the Butte is on the road leading into that camping section; otherwise, you're backed into sites on the lake with the view of a berm on the opposite side (sites 72-99). The lake level can be high (literally at the back end of your backed-in RV), or much lower as water is drained for farm irrigation during the summer. Big, old, and beautiful cottonwood trees surround the lake providing shade and separation between RV sites. This is a fishing and recreational destination park. The rate for an 'electric plus' site is $30 (2023) per night, the 'plus' being included picnic table and fire pit. This park is generally clean and maintained, but I was debating a rating of 3 versus 4 stars. I settled on 4 stars because it is quiet (no railroad tracks, no interstate, no main roads passing through with traffic), the sites are level, the electricity worked, and it is a fair value, once you have the State Park Pass(es) on your windshield(s), and are amortizing that cost by staying at other Nebraska State Parks that year.