Chadron State Park showcases this surprising landscape as Nebraska’s very first state park. Nestled in the Pine Ridge area, this park feels more like Colorado than what most people expect from ...

Chadron State Park sits in the Pine Ridge region, where the landscape will have you checking your GPS to make sure you’re still in Nebraska. As our first state park (established in 1921), it’s like ...

In 1872, a Nebraska newspaper editor and tree lover named J. Sterling Morton proposed dedicating a day to planting trees in ...