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SAMUEL R. McKELVIE NATIONAL FOREST (NE)

SUNDAY - By 8:30AM we were traveling east on US-20 headed for a First-Come-First-Serve campsite in the Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest.

Steer Creek Campground is the only developed campground in the entire forest and oddly enough no one from the Campendium community has ever reviewed this place. That could turn out good or bad! Good that we discover another gem of a camping opportunity or bad that this place is a dump and somewhere everyone else knows to avoid.

I suspect it will fall somewhere in between those two descriptions, but either way we're going to find out and be the first to review it on Campendium.

After being on the road for about an hour and a half we saw another Airstream traveling this lonely road heading in the opposite direction.

Like we always do when seeing another Airstream, we began flashing our high beams and waving at them and they were kind enough to return the gesture towards us.

Fifteen minutes later we were all prepared and took a video of a memorable moment related to our travels. All this happened at 60MPH on a less than perfect central Nebraska country road, so please forgive the less than perfect quality of the video.

That's right, ROVER is now a member of the 100,000-mile club. I can also confidently inform you that 51.6% (i.e. 51,605) of those miles were while towing THE POD to 48 of our 50 states. We're not done with him yet! We're going to see if he can do another 100,000 miles.

A short while later we were selecting our campsite from the 20 vacant sites still available.

There were three occupied campsites and they all had tents, no other RVs were to be found?

STEER CREEK CAMPGROUND
Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest

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Steer Creek is the only campground option in this entire National Forest.
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23 campsites on one loop with two vault toilets and one dumpster.
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The well worn road through the campground loop.
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Sites #3 & #4 would make good "buddy sites" as they are close together.
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The first of two vault toilets in the campground.
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This is the second one a little further from the campsites.
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They appear to be fairly new and well maintained, unlike the roadways.
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Most of the campsites pads are just about worn out.
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Some of the sites are well shaded, but we wanted one with full sun for our solar panels.
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And that's just what we got...
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...plus a view of the northern sky for our Starlink dish.
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The centrally located hand pump was nonpotable water, so it's only good for cleaning.
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The only trash dumpster could use an emptying!
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The entrance to the Bluejay Trail looked inviting...
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...but the exit was blocked with a large pile of downed wood.

MONDAY - This stop was meant to be another layover visit before we start to put some serious miles under our wheels.

We've got one more of these two day layovers before the longer travel days begin. So stay tuned!

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