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Mahoney State Park offer Full Hookup, Electric Plus and Electric campsites. There are a total of 148 campsites. Lakeside Campground (100-148 campsites) are located close to Baright Lake and Owen Marina. Little Creek Campground (1-99 campsites) is close to a playground, basketball court and the coin operated laundry facility. Both campgrounds have drinking water, showers and modern restrooms. A dump and fill station is located conveniently near the park entrance.
Tent camping is available at Mahoney State Park in the two modern campgrounds. Tent campers will use the grassy area next to the pad site to set up their tent. Those tenting will pay the camping fee applicable to the site occupied. If making reservations, look for the site description of “tentable.” This means there is a level grassy space for a tent.
Reservations are accepted for half of the campsites in Lakeside and Little Creek campgrounds up to 180 days in advance of arrival date and paid in full at the time the reservation is made. All other camping at Mahoney State Park is first-come, first-served. Campers with advance reservations and those camping first-come, first-served must stop at the Lauritzen Administration building located at the park entrance to check-in or register to camp prior to setting up on a campsite. If arriving after hours, campers must go to the Peter Kiewit Lodge customer service desk and check in or register for a first-come, first-served site.
This modern state park is the perfect year round destination for a family escape. Families can visit the aquatic center and indoor playground, explore the park’s hiking and biking trails, adventure through the treetop ropes course, climb the observation tower and, when the weather turns cold, enjoy indoor rock climbing, sledding and ice skating. The jewel of the park is Peter Kiewit Lodge, which offers 40 guest rooms, most with balconies that offer a stunning view of the Platte River valley. The park also offers an arts and crafts center, an array of cabins, as well as camping opportunities. Mahoney State Park is located midway between Nebraska’s two largest cities, Lincoln and Omaha and is open year round.
Located between Omaha & Lincoln on Interstate I-80, Exit 426. Upon taking exit 426, turn North and go 1/2 mile on Hwy 66, entrance before Strategic Air & Space Museum. If traveling from Ashland, from the east or west on Hwy 6 to Ashland, turn onto Hwy 66, go South 3 miles on Hwy 66, entrance after Strategic Air & Space Museum (before I-80).
A huge park with a water park, disc golf, fishing, paddle boats, driving range, hiking, horseback riding, go ape rope challenge, indoor playground, cabins, and so much more! And you are just down the road from platte river state park..another awesome park.
This is one of the best state parks in Nebraska.
Park is fantastic. So many fun activities for the whole family! Even though this is a year round state park and Campground, some of the activities are halted after Labor Day. Lucky for us we didn't come for the kid's stuff, we came to unwind and enjoy the beautiful weather and outdoor activities. If you are wanting lots of activities for the family, I'd make sure to check out their online schedule of events.
Grounds are easily walkable, I'd say some of the areas have gotten overgrown with weeds and such, but that's probably because its the end of fall and they're waiting for the rest to go dormant, to come in and do a final landscaping for the season.
Beautiful trails and views. We're camping and absolutely appreciate the wide open spaces between campers/RVs where you can spread out and have some breathing room..
Bathrooms are for the most part clean. However the showers in the bathhouse at the Little Creek Campground needs some serious attention. That's the only disappointment thus far. We're planning to stay 14 days in total and we have moved campsites when we found another one that suited us better.
We would definitely stay longer if allowed.
Took our granddaughter and one of her friends to the water park last week.
We had an amazing afternoon playing in the splash pad, and riding the waves in the wave pool.
A place for the whole family.
Everything is fee based for attractions like horse back riding, swimming, activity center, and crafts.
Plenty of opportunity for free fun though.
No restaurant on premisis at this time, but close to great places to eat
We went to Mahoney State Park on a recommendation from a woman we met from Nebraska. Huge state park and lots of open space. Would recommend but just know it’s about 37/night without hook ups. A bit pricey but really great state park.
As always it was fabulous. I worked at Mooney the first summer they were open and it been my go to place ever since. We stayed in a treetop cabin and it was awesome. The only thing that bothered me was we checked in around 8:00 pm and it was -20 outside-the outside lights of the cabin weren’t on, they had barely shoveled or salted so the pavement was slick and basically snow covered and it was 60 degrees inside the cabin. I had been told that the cabin would be warm, lights on, etc when we checked in. I give a big shout out to the park superintendent who personally helped us when our Jeep had a flat tire. He used his own personal air compressor and we were incredibly thankful. Mahoney will always be one of my favorite places, can’t recommend it enough!
