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Becky Kuntzelman | Johnson Publications
After a very busy Labor Day weekend, officials are now planning for an informative meeting Oct. 1 at Enders Golf Course to discuss the Nebraska Game and Parks centennial celebration taking place in the summer 2021.

Summer’s last holiday weekend at Enders Lake was biggest ever

    The final holiday weekend of the summer has come and gone, and Beau Licking, superintendent at Enders Lake Recreation Area, reports it was the best ever.
    “It was record-breaking,” he said last week, a few days after Labor Day had passed.
    He estimated at least 1,100 people visited each day of the three-day weekend, bringing  in more than $10,000 in camping fees.
    Licking said, in 2019, the registration fees totaled $7,400 over the September holiday weekend.
    All 42 electrical camping sites were full, as well as about 50% of the posted designated primitive sites, Licking said. Another 55 registrations were for non-posted primitive sites.
    In all, 153 different camping registrations were taken in for the week, he said.    
    The Game and Parks Commission sets the nightly rental fees. At Enders they are $30 for the electrical sites, $15 for the posted primitive sites and $10 for non-posted primitive spots.
    Licking believes there were a couple of reasons crowds were so big over Labor Day weekend.    
    Not only was the weather ideal, all of the COVID-19 restrictions had been lifted. Even so, Licking said individual contacts by his staff still encouraged six-foot social distancing.
    Another reason he thinks crowds were so good at Enders was because of changes at Lake McConaughy, 60 miles to the north and a popular lake.
    “People were wanting a quiet area,” he said.
    And that’s how the holiday weekend at Enders was. He said it was a good and quiet

 

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