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Wilson RV Park

10 RV Sites

Wilson RV Park in Wilson, Kansas, occupies a practical and welcoming position on the I-70 corridor in Ellsworth County — a family-owned campground that Dave and Lisa Sachleben have built into one of the more personally managed RV stops on the Kansas Turnpike route, providing full-service sites, modern restrooms with warm showers, laundry, and high-speed internet access alongside the proximity to Wilson Lake that gives guests an outdoor recreation dimension well beyond the typical interstate stopover. Wilson's Czech heritage community character and the exceptional clarity of Wilson Lake in the surrounding Smoky Hills limestone terrain make the campground a more rewarding destination for longer stays than its highway-stop position might initially suggest. Full-service RV sites with complete hookups give travelers the practical infrastructure for comfortable overnight and multi-night stays, and the warm showers, laundromat, and reliable internet service address the specific daily needs of guests on extended cross-country trips who need more than a place to park. The campground's family ownership brings the direct hospitality that distinguishes owner-operated RV parks from chain-managed properties, and the ongoing investment in facilities that the Sachlebens describe reflects a property that views its role as a genuine destination rather than merely a roadside accommodation. Wilson Lake, just minutes from the campground, is consistently described as one of the clearest lakes in Kansas — a Corps of Engineers reservoir in the Smoky Hills limestone terrain whose water clarity results from the geology of the watershed and the relative scarcity of agricultural runoff inputs that cloud most Great Plains reservoirs. The lake's clarity makes swimming, kayaking, and underwater visibility genuinely rewarding in a region where lake recreation options are limited, and the smallmouth bass fishery that the clear, rocky-bottomed lake supports is one of the best in the state. Wilson itself carries the identity of one of the most distinctive Czech heritage communities in Kansas — settled by Bohemian immigrants in the late 19th century, the community maintains its cultural identity through Czech heritage events, the annual Wilson Czech Festival, and the concentration of Czech architectural detail visible in the downtown's brick commercial buildings. The world's largest Czech egg, a hand-decorated fiberglass egg installation just down the road from the campground, is the community's most visible public art installation and the specific landmark that gives Wilson its quirky highway-traveler distinction along I-70. Wilson RV Park serves guests year-round on the Kansas Turnpike corridor, with the I-70 traffic sustaining consistent overnight demand throughout every season. Spring and fall bring the most comfortable temperatures for Wilson Lake recreation, and the smallmouth bass fishing on the lake reaches its best conditions in the clear-water season from late spring through early fall. The Czech Festival in Wilson, typically held in late summer, is the community's most broadly attended annual event and provides a specific date around which guests interested in the cultural programming dimension of a Wilson stay should plan their visit. Reserve sites ahead for festival weekend and summer holiday dates on the I-70 corridor.

from $38/night

Acorns Resort

16 RV Sites, 4 Cabins

Acorns Resort anchors itself on the shores of Milford Lake, Kansas's largest body of water at over 15,000 surface acres, offering a lakeside camping and lodging experience that stands as one of the finest outdoor retreats in the Great Plains. With cedar and oak canopies shading the grounds, a rocky shoreline distinct from the sandy beach areas found elsewhere on the lake, and a full range of accommodation options from RV sites to Pacific Yurts, Acorns Resort has established its reputation as the premier destination on Milford Lake's western shore — and one of the most complete camping destinations in the entire state. Sixty-one RV campsites with gravel pads accommodate rigs of all sizes across the shaded grounds, while 25 custom-built cabins nestled among the trees provide solid-wall comfort for guests who prefer not to sleep in their own RV. Six Pacific Yurts overlooking the rocky shoreline offer a distinctive middle ground — camping-adjacent in feel, genuinely comfortable in practice — and a lodge facility with nine hotel-style rooms rounds out the options for larger groups with varying accommodation preferences. Pontoon boat, kayak, stand-up paddleboard, and canoe rentals are available directly from the resort, simplifying gear logistics for guests arriving without their own watercraft. Pets are welcome throughout the property. The setting captures the best of Flint Hills-edge Kansas — wide sky, gentle hills, and the mirror-flat surface of Milford Lake reflecting sunrises that reward waking before the day gets underway. The 163 miles of shoreline surrounding the lake offer extensive room for exploration by water, and the resort's rocky shore has a distinct character — moss-covered limestone and ancient Flint Hills geology — that makes it visually different from the sandy areas elsewhere on Milford's banks. Blue herons are a consistent presence along the shoreline at dawn and dusk, and the stillness of Milford Lake on a calm morning is one of those quintessential Great Plains experiences worth the trip alone. Milford Lake's fishery is one of the most productive in the central United States, with wiper, walleye, crappie, largemouth and smallmouth bass, and channel catfish all drawing dedicated anglers who make the trip specifically for the fishing during prime spring and fall seasons. The Milford Nature Center, operated by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, offers free exhibits and well-maintained birdwatching trails right on the lake shore and is worth a morning visit for guests who want context for the region's natural history. Junction City and Manhattan are both within easy driving distance for dining and supplies, and Fort Riley — one of the U.S. Army's largest and most historically significant installations — adds genuine military and frontier history to the surrounding landscape. Spring and fall are prime seasons at Acorns Resort, with fishing particularly productive in April and May when lake temperatures are optimal. Summer weekends draw full-capacity crowds to Milford Lake for boating and water recreation, so booking RV sites, cabins, or yurts well ahead of any July or August visit is essential. The resort's breadth of accommodation styles — from open-sky RV pads to yurts to hotel rooms — makes it one of the most versatile camping destinations in Kansas regardless of your preferred level of outdoor immersion.

from $30/night

Smoky Hill RV Park

35 RV Sites

Smoky Hill RV Park sits at I-70 Exit 299 in Junction City, Kansas, in the Flint Hills corridor where the Smoky Hill River and Republican River join before entering the Milford Reservoir—a modern, full-service park built in 2020 with infrastructure designed for the contemporary traveling RV community, adjacent to the Fort Riley military installation and positioned as the cleanest and most fully equipped overnight and extended-stay option on the I-70 corridor between Salina and Manhattan. The park's new construction gives it consistent high ratings from travelers who value modern facilities in a part of the Great Plains where RV infrastructure quality can vary considerably. All sites are full hookup with 30 and 50-amp electric service, water, sewer, free high-speed WiFi, cable TV, picnic tables, and grills. The park's bathhouse doubles as a storm shelter—an important safety feature in Kansas's tornado-prone corridor—and houses the laundry room (three washers and four dryers) and clean shower facilities. A dog park accommodates traveling pets, a dump station serves self-contained units, and an on-site propane fill removes the need to hunt for a propane supplier in an unfamiliar town. Pull-through sites accommodate big rigs, and nightly, weekly, and extended-stay rates make the park flexible for both overnight corridor travelers and longer-term stays serving the Fort Riley community. Junction City anchors the Geary County economy in the heart of the Flint Hills—the largest remaining expanse of tallgrass prairie in North America, stretching from Nebraska to Oklahoma on the limestone bedrock that resisted the plow conversion that eliminated the majority of the American prairie. The Flint Hills' rolling terrain of big bluestem, indiangrass, and the characteristic bluestem pastures that ranchers have maintained for over a century through controlled burning create a landscape that surprises travelers expecting the flat, featureless plains of popular imagination. The tallgrass prairie's spring burning season in March and April, when ranchers ignite the dormant grass to stimulate the following year's growth, produces spectacular columns of smoke and fire visible across the hills. Fort Riley, the historic Army installation immediately west of Junction City at Exit 301, has been one of the central Great Plains' primary military establishments since the 1850s and preserves significant historical resources: the Custer House museum (the preserved quarters of George Armstrong Custer during his Fort Riley assignment), the 1st Infantry Division Museum, and the historic parade ground and limestone buildings of the post's nineteenth-century core. Milford Lake, 15 minutes from the park, is Kansas's largest reservoir at 15,700 acres and provides the fishing, boating, and beach recreation that anchor Geary County's outdoor recreation economy—the lake's walleye, wipers (white bass-striped bass hybrids), catfish, and white bass fishing draws anglers from across the region. Smoky Hill RV Park operates year-round as a Flint Hills corridor destination and I-70 travel stop, with the spring burn season and the Milford Lake fishing season generating the most destination-specific demand. Kansas State University in Manhattan, 30 minutes west on I-70, provides the cultural and commercial infrastructure of a university city including the Konza Prairie Biological Station—a 8,616-acre native tallgrass prairie preserve with public hiking trails—for travelers who want direct prairie access in a research-quality setting. Reserve ahead for major Fort Riley events and Manhattan game weekends when the I-70 corridor's lodging fills completely.

from $50/night

Double Nickel Campground

24 RV Sites

Double Nickel Campground in Waco, Nebraska, occupies the practical middle of the state along the I-80 corridor — a well-maintained family campground in York County that serves both road-trippers crossing the Great Plains and local families from Lincoln and Omaha who want a weekend outdoor reset without the logistical overhead of a long drive. Open from mid-April through late October, the park packs a genuine amenity lineup into a compact and personably managed property that delivers more than its highway-campground billing suggests. Spacious pull-through RV sites accommodate big rigs with ease alongside grassy tent sites and a deluxe cabin for guests who want solid walls without sacrificing the campground experience. A swimming pool, basketball court, mini-golf course, playground, and game room create an on-site activity calendar that keeps families busy between road travel legs, and themed weekend events through the season add programming that gives return visitors something new to anticipate. Owners Jeff and Amanda are available around the clock — a practical detail that regularly comes up when guests describe what makes Double Nickel feel different from a chain stopover. Pets are welcome throughout the campground. The Nebraska plains landscape that surrounds Waco is quieter and more spacious than the word "rest stop" typically implies — open sky in all directions, prairie light that shifts in quality through the day, and the deep quiet of agricultural Nebraska after the interstate fades from earshot at the campground's edge. Waco sits in the Platte River agricultural corridor where Nebraska's farming identity is most concentrated, and the countryside around the park has the particular flat-horizon spaciousness that Great Plains travel cultivates an appreciation for. Sandy Meadows Golf Course provides an on-theme recreational outlet within easy reach of camp for guests inclined toward fairways between travel days. Smith Creek Recreation Area offers fishing and outdoor access within the broader county park system. Lee's Legendary Marble Museum in Waco — a genuine one-of-a-kind attraction featuring one of the largest collections of antique and artisan marbles in the world — rewards a curious hour that most I-80 travelers would never think to plan but few leave disappointed by. Lincoln, Nebraska's capital city with its thriving arts district, Haymarket neighborhood, and the University of Nebraska campus, is roughly 30 miles east on I-80 and provides a full urban day-trip option for guests staying multiple nights. Double Nickel Campground runs its full season from April 15 through October 21, with summer peak weeks and the themed weekend events drawing the heaviest demand. The pool and full amenity calendar operate through the warm-weather season, and the campground's position on the I-80 corridor keeps it accessible for both planned multi-night stays and last-minute overnight stops for traveling families who discover it while crossing Nebraska. Book ahead for holiday weekends and event-themed weeks when site availability moves quickly at this well-loved York County family campground.

from $50/night

Oregon Trail RV Park - Westmoreland

5 RV Sites

Oregon Trail RV Park in Westmoreland, Kansas, offers full-hookup RV sites with 50-amp service on a big-rig-friendly layout in the Pottawatomie County countryside, with sites sized to 45 feet and fire pits throughout. Back-in water-and-electric, full-hookup back-in, and pull-through configurations are all available, along with a playground, pavilion, and dog park. Sites run in back-in water-and-electric, back-in full-hookup with sewer, and pull-through water-and-electric configurations, all carrying 50-amp service and sized to 45 feet, with fire pits. The big-rig-friendly layout accommodates larger coaches, and a dump station serves guests on partial hookups. Restrooms, showers, and WiFi handle the practical side. Note that site inventory here is small — confirm availability rather than arriving on spec. On-site amenities suit families and longer stops. A playground and pavilion anchor the grounds, a dog park gives pets their own space, and volleyball and swimming fill out the recreation. The small scale is the character of the place, and the surrounding Flint Hills countryside is quiet in a way that larger highway parks are not. Pets are welcome. Westmoreland sits on Rock Creek in the rolling Flint Hills transition country of northeastern Kansas, along the historic Oregon Trail corridor. Roughly 500,000 emigrants crossed this prairie between 1840 and 1869 on the overland migration that populated Oregon, California, and Utah, and the landscape between the Kaw River valley and the Platte corridor remains relatively unchanged. The park serves both brief stopovers on the northeastern Kansas highway network and longer countryside stays. Summer brings the heaviest travel demand — reserve ahead.

from $25/night

High Plains Camping

79 RV Sites

High Plains Camping in Oakley, Kansas, offers 76 full-hookup RV sites along the I-70 corridor, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted up to 90 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, open all year. Every category is a pull-through or pull-in — no backing at any site — with a splash pad, general store, on-site dining, and premium WiFi. Seventy-six sites span pull-in 20/30-amp, pull-thru 20/30-amp, pull-thru 20/30/50-amp, pull-thru 30-amp, and pull-thru 50-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 90 feet. An all-pull-through layout at 90 feet is exactly what a long-haul interstate stop should be — pull in, level, sleep, pull out. Premium WiFi is available for guests who need real bandwidth. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, propane fills, RV storage, and on-site dining handle the practical side. A splash pad, community fire pit, and horseshoes fill the grounds. The amenity set is focused rather than sprawling, which suits a property built around comfortable overnight and short stays. Pets are welcome. Coming from the south: head north on US-83, turn west on US-40, then right on US-83 again after about a mile and continue 4.5 miles — the park sits about 200 yards before the I-70 ramps. Logan County sits in the heart of Kansas's geological country, with Monument Rocks and Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park nearby, halfway between Denver and Topeka. Summer interstate traffic drives demand. Reserve ahead for holiday travel periods.

from $28/night

Sandhills Global Event Center

37 RV Sites

At the Sandhills Global Event Center on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska—the state capital and home of the University of Nebraska, positioned at the eastern edge of the Great Plains where the Cornhusker State's agricultural identity and its university town cultural infrastructure coexist—the RVUniverse Campgrounds provide one of the largest RV camping facilities in the central United States with more than 1,300 sites, full utility access, modern shower and laundry facilities, and immediate proximity to Lincoln's dining, shopping, and cultural programming. For RV travelers who need a reliable, large-scale overnight or extended stop in the middle of the country, the Sandhills facility provides the capacity and infrastructure that smaller campgrounds cannot approach when events and large gatherings drive regional demand. The campground's site count exceeds 1,300 positions in both gravel and grass configurations, providing the scale that accommodates large RV rallies, event-specific gatherings, and the routine highway traffic of cross-country travelers simultaneously. Water and electric service are provided at each campsite, with water availability dependent on seasonal freeze weather during the coldest winter periods. Full hookup 50-amp sites accommodate the largest modern rigs, and a dump station and propane exchange fill handle the service needs of self-contained travelers. Modern bathrooms and showers in the FR8Star Pavilion serve the full site population with the cleanliness and organization that a facility of this scale requires to maintain its reputation. Laundry facilities, WiFi service available at affordable daily rates up to 50Mbps per device, and the Murdock Trail running directly adjacent to the campground for walking, jogging, biking, and dog walking complete the on-property infrastructure. Lincoln's position as Nebraska's capital city and home to the University of Nebraska provides an urban infrastructure context that most Great Plains campground stops don't offer. The Nebraska State Capitol—a 400-foot tower with a distinctive dome topped by a bronze statute of the Sower, considered one of the finest examples of early 20th-century American civic architecture—anchors the city's historical and architectural core. The Sheldon Museum of Art, the Lied Center for Performing Arts, and the Sunken Gardens provide cultural programming of genuine quality that the university context sustains year-round. Lincoln's restaurant scene reflects the university-city mix that produces dining diversity well above what a mid-sized Great Plains city would otherwise support, and the commercial corridor immediately adjacent to the event center gives guests the grocery, fuel, and restaurant access that highway travelers specifically need. Memorial Stadium—home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football program and one of the most passionately supported fan cultures in college athletics—fills the Sandhills campgrounds to capacity on game weekends, making reservations essential for the six to eight home Saturdays between September and November that generate the event center's peak demand periods. The Sandhills Global Event Center RV campground is open year-round, with full utility access most reliable from April through October when freeze concerns are minimal. Game weekend reservations should be made months in advance for Nebraska football home dates. The campground serves the overlapping populations of event attendees, highway travelers crossing the country on I-80, and Lincoln visitors who prefer campground pricing to hotel rates. Reserve early for event weekends and use Lincoln as the centrally located base that its position in the geographic heart of the country makes it ideal to serve.

from $45/night

All Seasons RV Park

On West Maple Street in Goddard, Kansas—where Wichita meets Goddard on the quiet country edge of the Air Capital of the World without the highway roar, train whistles, or urban congestion that the closer-in Wichita parks impose—All Seasons RV Park offers 53 shaded pull-through sites with full hookups and 30 and 50-amp service, a resort-style pool and spa, catch-and-release fishing, a nature trail, a playground, badminton, picnic tables with BBQ pits, an activity room with kitchen for up to 32 people, WiFi, cable TV, propane fill, coin laundry, showers, and a convenience store right in the office, in a quiet country-edge park whose Wichita-adjacent position delivers the Sedgwick County Zoo, Old Town's entertainment district, and the Keeper of the Plains within a short drive of the most genuinely peaceful hookup pads in the greater Wichita market. Fifty-three shaded pull-throughs. Pool and spa. Wichita is 10 minutes east. All 53 shaded pull-through sites with full hookups—30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer on level pads—provide the infrastructure without the exposed, sun-baked pad experience that many of the flat-terrain Great Plains RV parks deliver. The shade trees that line the Goddard property create the summer temperature reduction and the visual softness that the campground's "quiet country setting" description reflects in practice. A resort-style pool and spa provide the relaxation infrastructure, catch-and-release fishing in the on-site pond provides the angling diversion that the traveling fisherman appreciates without a drive to a public reservoir, and the nature trail's walkable path through the park's perimeter provides the morning exercise loop. The activity room with full kitchen for up to 32 people serves the organized group—the traveling club, the family reunion, the corporate team—whose gathering needs the individual RV's interior cannot accommodate. WiFi, cable TV, propane fill, coin laundry, and the convenience store at the office complete the practical daily infrastructure. Goddard sits in Sedgwick County on US-54 west of Wichita, in the agricultural community at the city's western edge where the suburban development transitions to the irrigated farmland and the wind energy installations that the Great Plains' consistently strong westerlies support across the Kansas landscape. The Wichita metropolitan area's 650,000 residents and the aviation manufacturing economy—Spirit AeroSystems, Cessna, and the legacy of Beechcraft, Boeing, and Learjet's Kansas production—create the professional traveler and extended-stay market that the US-54/US-400 corridor's campgrounds serve year-round. The Sedgwick County Zoo, 15 minutes east in Wichita, consistently ranks among the top 10 zoos in the United States for its naturalistic exhibits and the 3,000-animal collection across 260 acres. The Keeper of the Plains sculpture at the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers' confluence, Old Town Wichita's converted warehouse entertainment district with live music and restaurants, the Kansas Aviation Museum in the historic Wichita Municipal Airport terminal, and Botanica the Wichita Gardens' 18 themed garden areas create the Wichita day-off cultural inventory that the Goddard overnight access enables. Exploration Place science center on the Arkansas River provides the family science experience. All Seasons RV Park operates year-round in Sedgwick County's continental plains climate, where the full four seasons—spring tornado season, warm summers, brilliant fall, and manageable cold winters—deliver the weather variety that makes a year-round campground genuinely useful to the aviation industry's professional traveler and the leisure RVer transiting the I-54 and Kansas Turnpike corridors equally. Reserve your shaded pull-through at All Seasons and let the Goddard country edge, the pool and spa, and the 10-minute Wichita drive make the Air Capital's most peaceful western approach the Great Plains overnight worth slowing down for.

from $45/night

Camp The Range RV Park

7 RV Sites

Camp The Range RV Park in Wichita, Kansas, offers full-hookup pull-through RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 37 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, just off the freeway. Patio pull-through categories join standard sites, with a storm shelter on site — a genuinely practical feature in Kansas. Pull-through sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30-amp and 30/50-amp service, sized to 37 feet, with picnic tables and site WiFi. Patio pull-through categories add outdoor living space. Note the 37-foot cap before booking a larger rig. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, RV storage, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Every site pulling through means no backing after a long day. Pets are welcome. The storm shelter is worth calling out. Kansas weather is a genuine consideration, and a campground that has built proper shelter reflects a conscientious operation rather than a marketing claim. A recreation center, game room, playground, and dog park fill the grounds, with planned activities through the season. The park sits just off the freeway in the heart of Wichita, which is the practical advantage — guests reach the city's cultural and outdoor attractions without navigating the suburban residential streets that off-highway Wichita campground addresses typically require. The park serves both short-stay I-35 corridor travelers and longer visits year-round. Spring storm season is worth planning around, and summer brings the heaviest travel demand. Reserve ahead for event weekends in the city.

from $61/night

K and R RV Park

52 RV Sites

K and R RV Park in Wichita, Kansas, offers 52 RV sites in back-in and pull-through categories with rigs accepted to 45 feet. A storm shelter, playground, laundry, dog park, and personal mailboxes serve travelers and extended-stay guests in southeast Sedgwick County. Fifty-two sites run in back-in and pull-through categories, sized to 45 feet. Contact the park directly to confirm hookups and amp service for your rig before booking. A laundry, personal mailboxes, and WiFi handle the practical side. The mailboxes tell you who stays here — this park serves a substantial monthly and extended-stay population alongside overnight travelers. The storm shelter is not a marketing line in this part of Kansas. Wichita sits in the heart of tornado alley, and an on-site shelter is a genuine safety feature that many parks in the region do not provide. A playground and dog park fill the rest of the grounds. Pets are welcome. Directions heading south on K-15: stay in the left-hand lane as you pass the QuikTrip on your left, then make the first available U-turn past it. Wichita is Kansas's largest city, at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers. Its aviation, manufacturing, and military economy generates a steady flow of professional travelers and contract workers, which is the market a well-located urban RV park serves year-round. Demand runs steadily rather than seasonally, tracking work assignments and Wichita's event calendar. Spring and fall bring the most comfortable Plains conditions. Reserve ahead for major event weekends, and call about monthly rates for extended stays.

from $50/night

Cuzn Eddyz Campground

17 RV Sites, 2 Tent Sites

At the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 92 in Merna, Nebraska—in the heart of the Sandhills, the 19,000-square-mile grass-stabilized dune system that constitutes the largest such formation in the Western Hemisphere—Cuzn Eddyz Campground provides the full hookup camping infrastructure and the gathering-place atmosphere that traveling guests need to use the Nebraska Sandhills as an intentional destination rather than a windshield blur. The campground's collection of more than 30 vintage windmills—all different, all photogenic, all representing the mechanical ingenuity that homesteaders used to access Sandhills groundwater—functions as the most distinctive roadside gallery in the region and gives the campground a specific character that no amenity checklist fully captures. When the Nebraska Sandhills is the destination, Merna is the base camp. Seventeen full hookup sites with 50-amp, 30-amp, and 110-volt electric options accommodate the range of RV electrical needs, with eight pull-through and nine back-in positions covering the full spectrum of rig configurations. Unlimited tent sites serve the primitive camping population. A gender-specific bath and shower house with laundry facilities handles the practical daily needs, and the main office operates a boutique retail gift shop stocked with the Nebraska Sandhills merchandise and regional items that destination campground guests consistently look for. A covered pavilion, playground, and relatively large grass field provide the gathering and recreation space that families with children specifically need. A baseball field with night lights—a particular amenity for late summer evenings when the Sandhills' extraordinary light quality turns even recreational games into something more memorable—adds a specific and unusual activity option that most campgrounds don't provide. The Nebraska Sandhills landscape surrounding Merna offers one of the most genuinely remarkable natural environments in the American interior. The grass-stabilized dunes—rising and falling in topography that looks oceanic from a high point, covered in native bluestem, switchgrass, and the wildflowers of an ecosystem that supports greater species diversity than any other North American grassland—host breeding populations of sandhill cranes, greater prairie chickens, and the secretive grassland birds that have become increasingly rare as the continent's native grasslands disappear. The Sandhills' groundwater, the largest aquifer reserve in North America under this section of the Great Plains, feeds a system of lakes, wetlands, and spring-fed rivers of exceptional clarity. The nearby river provides the most actively recreational natural access from the campground—tanking, tubing, and kayaking on the Sandhills' spring-fed streams being the summer activity that Nebraska residents have built an entire regional tradition around. Tanking specifically—floating down a river in a repurposed stock tank, a Nebraska Sandhills invention that has since spread to other prairie states—is the most authentically Nebraskan recreational experience available, and the Sandhills' clear, cold, spring-fed rivers provide the optimal conditions for it. Broken Bow, the Custer County seat, and the surrounding communities of Anselmo and Berwyn provide the commercial amenities that a Sandhills camping stay requires. Cuzn Eddyz Campground operates seasonally through the Nebraska camping season. The spring and fall migration periods, when sandhill cranes move through the Sandhills in numbers that stop traffic on the rural highways, represent the most spectacular natural events in the regional calendar. Summer brings the river tubing season and the long light evenings that Sandhills camping is specifically known for. Reserve your pull-through site and bring enough time to discover what the largest grass-stabilized dune system in the Western Hemisphere looks like from inside it.

from $26/night

Red Hills Motel & RV Park

4 Cabins

Redhills Motel and RV Park in Ashland, Kansas, provides straightforward full hookup RV accommodations and motel lodging in Clark County's High Plains country, serving the travelers and working guests who pass through or operate in one of the least-visited corners of Kansas—the red hills and mixed-grass prairie landscape of the state's southwestern plains where the Medicine Lodge River flows through brilliant vermilion gyp hills in one of the Great Plains' most dramatically colored and most solitary natural environments. The park's honest, no-frills character serves a community that takes pride in its self-reliant plains heritage. The park provides full hookup RV sites with water and electric service, propane fills, and a pet-friendly policy that accommodates the traveling companions of the road workers, hunters, and long-haul travelers who make up Ashland's transient guest community. The straightforward amenity set reflects the character of a western Kansas plains community where the landscape itself constitutes the primary attraction and where guests who come to Clark County come for the red hills, the fishing, and the unhurried character of a High Plains community that has maintained its agricultural and ranching identity without the tourism development that has transformed other Kansas destinations. Clark County's landscape is defined by the Red Hills—a gyp hills formation of brilliantly colored Permian red beds and alabaster gypsum outcrops that create a canyon and butte topography dramatically different from the flat plains that surround them, earning this region designation as part of the Red Hills of Kansas unique natural area. The Medicine Lodge River and its tributaries drain the red hills country in spring-fed streams that support fishing for channel catfish and bass in a landscape largely unchanged from the shortgrass prairie that supported immense bison herds before the 1870s hunting campaigns transformed the southern plains. Clark County has one of the lowest population densities of any county in Kansas. Clark State Fishing Lake, a Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks facility approximately eight miles south of Ashland, provides the region's most developed public outdoor recreation infrastructure with fishing, camping, and wildlife observation in the red hills landscape that makes this corner of Kansas distinctive. Medicine Lodge, approximately 40 miles northeast, hosts the Stockade Museum and the outdoor pageant Peace Treaty Pageant that commemorates the 1867 treaty negotiations between the US government and the Kiowa, Comanche, and other southern plains tribes. The Meade County State Park and the Legend of Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City extend the western Kansas historical and outdoor recreation landscape. Redhills Motel and RV Park operates year-round in Clark County's semi-arid continental climate, where the High Plains' four seasons range from cold, wind-driven winters to the hot, dry summers that define southwestern Kansas's uncompromising weather character. The pheasant hunting season from November through January and the deer hunting season in the fall represent the strongest demand periods for Ashland accommodations, when hunters from across the Great Plains converge on Clark County's public and private hunting lands for the upland bird and white-tailed deer populations that the mixed-grass prairie and red hills habitat sustain. The park's year-round service supports the agricultural economy's seasonal and transient workforce throughout the calendar year.