Bow Creek Primitive Camping in NE -- Campground & RV Camping

Bow Creek Recreation Area provides free, primitive Leave No Trace camping along Bow Creek and the Missouri River in Cedar County. Located two miles northeast of Wynot, campsites are basic and marked with brown signs and metal fire rings. Access requires navigating a network of gravel roads to a central parking lot and trailhead. Visitors must pack out all waste and are asked to call in their itinerary ahead of time.

Getting there: Bow Creek Recreation Area is located along Bow Creek and the Missouri River in Cedar County about 2 miles northeast of Wynot, Nebraska. A series of gravel roads wind you to the location by car. Follow the brown Bow Creek Recreational Area directional signs to the gravel parking lot and trailhead.

• Moderately separated here.
• Sits on broad, near-level ground.
• A river runs 0.2 mi off.
• Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.

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