Nebraska's Toadstool Park

Toadstool Park presents visitors a tortured landscape of eroded clay and sandstone formations that seem to come from another world. You can travel through the landscape on a one-mile loop trail from a campground. Here, you can virtually travel through a QuickTime VR panorama of the park. Watch for the "hot spots" on the movies where you can move from one location to another. The cursor changes to an up-arrow when it's over a hot spot.

The park also contains the longest known mammal trackway of the Oligocene epoch. This trackway is featured in a new interpretive kiosk and a new self-guided trail brochure completed the spring of 1999. A reconstructed sod house provides a look into the past when homesteaders on the prairie used the only abundant building material available. This area consists of 6 picnic tables and fire grates, a hand water pump and fully-accessible vault toilets. Fossils and artifacts are protected by federal laws. A $5.00 camping fee or a $3.00 per vehicle day use fee is charged from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

How to Get There -- Travel 4 miles north of Crawford, Nebraska, on State Highway 2 and 71, then 15 miles northwest on Toadstool Road.

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