DLD State Recreation Area, Hastings NE
Camped, DLD State Recreation Area, Hastings NE, May 7, 2011
DLD State Recreation Area in an old abandoned roadside recreation area along Rt 6 a few miles east of Hastings NE.
DLD is a former wayside area encompassing 7 acres of land. The area offers picnicking and 4 non-designated campsites. DLD is located 5 miles east of Hastings on U.S. Highway 6.
DLD State Recreation Area, Hastings NE
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - good signal
- Go to DLD State Recreation Area website
- Locate DLD State Recreation Area on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.