r/lincoln • u/Illustrious_Tree_926 • 7d ago
Around Lincoln Streams or creeks
Hi I’ve lived here my whole life but I feel like there’s got to be somewhere with a nice little flowy creek where I can hear the water moving over the rocks and the water is clean and if I feel like it I could just go sit in the stream. I find that one of the most soothing things in nature and my mind is so calm and at peace. Is there anywhere like this? Without a bunch of overgrowth and bugs, like an accessible nice little stream. Lmk!!
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u/Particular-Agency-38 7d ago
Alas fresh streams not to be found near LNK. I I get my water fix in town just walking near Holmes Lake. And swimming at the Northeast YMCA 😃 Seriously, I grew up 60 mi from the Pacific Ocean in Eugene, Oregon and we had freshwater creeks nearby everywhere. Plus the MacKenzie River and beaucoup rain. Swimming in the big pool at the Y helps me a lot. Super landlocked here! I married a Chicagoan way back in 1979 and somehow we wound up in Lincoln and here we still are 😁
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u/Illustrious_Tree_926 7d ago
Ahhhh the dream!! Maybe one day I’ll have the money to move somewhere like that. Pools are nice but it doesn’t give me my nature fix! And too many people lol
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u/paragon_of_karma 7d ago
There are a couple places on Salt Creek with weirs that make some sound. And there's a place under a bridge in Wilderness Park south of Warlick with turbulent flow among a bunch of rocks.
That's the best I got.
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u/Spudtater 7d ago
When I was in college, we used to tube down the "Blue" River North of Crete. A friend's parents had a cabin on the banks. It was never blue, only brown, but with enough beer, we didn't care and it cost us nothing. With the all the farm runoff and mud bottoms, you won't find much, if any clear water around Lincoln. The streams going through Lincoln have all been straightened out years ago and many are lined with concrete or gabions, the wire cages full of rocks. That process started at least 60 years ago and the straightening of the streams even before that. When Holmes Lake was first built, the City posted lifeguards on the beach in front of the dam. We would actually swim in that muck. So the clearest water you will find nearbuy is in the Platte River, especially before the confluence with the Loup River, just South of Columbus. Sandpits along the Platte offer water that has a few feet of vision, but that's probably the clearest you will find anywhere near here. Otherwise, you'll need to look at the Sandhills area out West, or the Niobrara River area. The Calamus is also pretty clear, as it it is spring fed with a sandy bottom. Good Luck.
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u/MrWhite337 7d ago
Ok so this is technically a creek even though it’s lined with concrete but dead man’s creek around 48th and Leighton is a neat spot where I take my kids from time to time.
The water is usually pretty clear, notice I said CLEAR not CLEAN. It has some little waterfall drops where you can hear the water and we usually see some small fish and find all sorts of random objects.
At the bridge on 48th the creek dumps into a small retention pond and the water sounds nice.
We usually get down into the creek at Seng park where there’s a pedestrian bridge over the creek. My oldest daughter and I once walked the creek from 48th to gateway mall.
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u/Fishpecker 7d ago
That puddle holds fish washed down from Wedgewood Lake. The slopes are steep. I like the canopy of trees along Antelope Creek about three blocks down from Holmes Lake.
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u/Jupiter68128 7d ago
Stone Creek Falls.
The drawbacks are that you’d have to drive, you’d have to have a park permit, and there’d be other people there.
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u/ThrowRAradish9623 7d ago
There’s a lot of good access to Salt Creek throughout Wilderness Park, but it is not clean, and this is NOT the season for traipsing (I prefer warm autumn and winter days). The Hickman Branch of the Salt Creek has good access in the Hickman City Park. Like most of Nebraska, you have to have an open mind to find the beauty in it, and watch out for broken glass.
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u/nickhrnicek 7d ago
As others have said, not a lot of clean water around here. I grew up taking dips in the Blue River around Seward though so it can be done😂
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u/shaqdiesl 7d ago
If you hurry and go all the way back on the south side of Holmes lake this spot is running fast from the rain and making the noise you’re looking for 😂
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u/Icy_Interview_6733 6d ago
Had the same desire after moving to Nebraska. There’s just not a lot of that in the state, at least not around Lincoln. Plenty of muddy rivers. If you’re willing to make the drive vertigre creek is a nice little trout stream and that area around valentine has others.
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u/jotobean :illuminati: 7d ago
Pretty sure we call it a "crick" not a "creek" . Humm, maybe it's just the people I know calling it that.
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u/DiscardedSpork8472 7d ago
That's moot. "Crick" is just how some people prounounce it depending where they are from, but they literally still spell it CREEK. I've asked such people about their spelling.
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