Fort Robinson State Park, located three miles west of Crawford, is the largest state park in Nebraska. This park serves as a tourist center and vacation headquarters for an average of 380,000 persons each season (April 15 to November 15). Here Nebraska’s most famous military outpost stands almost as it was 90 years ago. Fort Robinson is the site of such things as the killing of Crazy Horse, the Cheyenne Outbreak, German Prisoner of War Camp, and Dogs for Defense to name a few. The Fort has since been made into a more than 20,000-acre state park with many activities going on throughout the year. The old double veranda brick barracks building now houses a hotel and café. There are also the Post Playhouse and two museums, the Fort Robinson Historical Museum, and Trailside Museum. It is also the new home for the one-of-a-kind fossils of two male mammoths that died in battle. The former adobe and brick officers’ quarters have been converted to rental cabins complete with modern housekeeping facilities and appliances. The park also has trailer and camping facilities, live theatre nightly (summer season), swimming pool, concrete tennis courts, horseback riding facilities, and fast-running cold water streams for trout fishing. Buffalo and longhorn cattle roam the pastures of Fort Robinson, and bighorn sheep can be seen in the area. For more information, contact Fort Robinson State Park at (308) 665-2900.