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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

Foothill Flats

29 RV Sites

At the crossroads of Interstate 70 and US Highway 287 in Limon, Colorado—the self-styled Hub of Eastern Colorado, 95 miles east of Denver at the point where the high plains of Lincoln County begin their gradual ascent toward the Rocky Mountain Front Range—Foothill Flats is a newer, family-run campground offering 32 big-rig-friendly pull-through sites on gravel pads measuring 70 feet by 35 feet, with full hookup service including 20, 30, and 50-amp electric, sewer, and water alongside premium WiFi and a dog park in a year-round property designed for travelers who need reliable I-70 access and maximum site dimensions for large rigs. The campground is transparent about its developing status: public laundry, restroom, and shower facilities are not yet on-site, with paid facilities available nearby in Limon's town center. Full hookup sites with the generous 70-by-35-foot dimensions accommodate the longest and widest motorhomes, fifth wheels, and toy haulers on the road without the maneuvering compromises that tighter campgrounds impose on large rigs. The premium WiFi service supports the remote workers, traveling professionals, and month-to-month residents who use Limon's central Colorado position as a base between longer stays, and the dog park gives traveling pets dedicated space in the eastern Colorado landscape where the surrounding open terrain creates the wind exposure that makes an enclosed dog area genuinely useful. The year-round operation serves both the through-traveler making the I-70 cross-Colorado run and the extended-stay guest who needs a reliable month-to-month base in the Denver commute radius. Limon sits at 5,365 feet in the short-grass prairie of Lincoln County, in the Colorado High Plains landscape where the agricultural communities of eastern Colorado maintain the ranching and dryland farming economy that has defined this part of the state since settlement. The town's crossroads position at the I-70 and US-287 junction makes it the natural service hub for the surrounding Lincoln, Cheyenne, and Elbert County communities, and the eastern Colorado landscape's wide-open sky and genuinely dark nights create the stargazing conditions that the Front Range's light pollution eliminates entirely from the Denver-area campground experience. The Comanche National Grassland, managed by the US Forest Service approximately 100 miles southeast near La Junta and Springfield, preserves the shortgrass prairie ecosystem and the Picketwire Canyonlands—home to the largest documented dinosaur tracksite in North America, with more than 1,300 individual tracks from at least 100 brachiosaurus and alosaurus preserved in the Morrison Formation along the Purgatoire River. Picture Canyon in the Comanche also protects significant Native American rock art panels accessible by a short hike. Closer to Limon, the eastern Colorado landscape's pronghorn antelope herds, prairie dog towns, and the meadowlark culture of the shortgrass prairie provide the accessible, low-effort wildlife watching that the open terrain enables. Foothill Flats operates year-round through the full range of eastern Colorado's continental climate—the warm, clear summers with low humidity and cool nights that make the plains genuinely comfortable, and the winter periods when the I-70 corridor's importance as a trans-continental route makes a reliable, full-hookup stopping point between Denver and Kansas City genuinely valuable. The campground's developing infrastructure reflects the reality of a newer property building toward a complete amenity set while already delivering the hookup quality and site dimensions that large-rig travelers prioritize. Reserve your pull-through site at Foothill Flats and let Limon's crossroads position and the big-sky Colorado plains deliver the eastern Colorado stop your rig deserves.

from $40/night

CO Journey RV Park

19 RV Sites

CO Journey RV Park sits in Simla, Colorado, on the Eastern Plains of Elbert County about 30 minutes east of Colorado Springs—a new park in a small agricultural town that functions as a genuinely quiet alternative to the crowded RV parks and campgrounds that fill up in the resort corridors of the Front Range and mountain communities during the Colorado summer season. The park serves both travelers moving through on US-24 and the I-70 corridor and those seeking a convenient, affordable base for exploring Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region without paying mountain-resort prices for a campsite. Full hookup sites with 30 and 50-amp electric service, water, and sewer are standard across the site inventory. Scenic picnic areas and fire pits provide the outdoor communal space for evenings on the plains, where the unobstructed horizon delivers sunset views across the flat grassland that stretches east toward Kansas without interruption. The park is pet-friendly and accommodates a range of RV sizes in a new, clean facility that has been built to modern standards rather than accumulated through decades of incremental expansion. Simla's small-town character means the park operates with the kind of owner attention that larger commercial parks cannot sustain, a difference that traveling campers often notice immediately. Simla sits in the heart of Elbert County's agricultural plains, where the high-altitude grassland that covers this part of the Colorado Piedmont has supported cattle ranching and dryland wheat farming since the homestead era of the late nineteenth century. The landscape here is big-sky country in the classic sense—wide open, sparsely populated, and defined by the relationship between the flat ground and the enormous Colorado sky rather than by any topographic feature at ground level. The distant profile of Pikes Peak visible to the west on clear days is a daily reminder of how close the mountains are despite the landscape's unmistakably plains character. Paint Mines Interpretive Park, a Elbert County open space property about 20 minutes from the park, protects a series of dramatically colorful sandstone and clay formations eroded from the Dawson Formation into hoodoos, spires, and gully walls painted in shades of pink, rust, purple, and cream—one of the more visually surprising geological formations on the Eastern Plains and a particularly rewarding sunrise or late-afternoon photography location. Colorado Springs is a 30-minute drive and provides the full range of Pikes Peak–region destinations: Garden of the Gods, the Broadmoor resort area, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Pikes Peak itself, reachable by the Pikes Peak Highway or the Broadmoor Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway, rises to 14,115 feet and provides one of the most accessible fourteener summit experiences in Colorado. CO Journey RV Park is open year-round in a high-plains climate where winter is cold and windy but rarely brutal and summer is warm with low humidity. The Eastern Plains location means the park avoids the thunderstorm and lightning frequency that makes exposed mountain camping precarious in July and August, and the proximity to Colorado Springs allows guests to drive up to the mountains for the day and return to a quieter, more affordable campsite in the evening. The park's newer infrastructure and affordable rates make it a sensible choice for budget-conscious travelers exploring the Pikes Peak region.

from $44/night

Jellystone Park™ Larkspur

415 RV Sites, 111 Cabins

Jellystone Park at Larkspur in Colorado offers 415 full-hookup RV sites and 111 cabins across 100 wooded acres between Denver and Colorado Springs, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. A water park, splash pad, and full Jellystone program run year-round behind a gated entrance. Four hundred fifteen sites span full hookup back-in, premium full hookup, elite full hookup back-in, elite plus full hookup, and elite buddy categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Buddy sites suit parties traveling together. Accessible sites are available. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, personal mailboxes, and recycling handle the practical side. Recreation is extensive. A water park, splash pad, and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with a hot tub, sauna, fitness center, mini-golf, arcade, and craft room besides. Tennis, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, and a jumping pillow fill the courts, with gem mining, boating, a beach, dog park, playground, community fire pit, and golf cart rentals across the acreage. On-site dining, live music, and planned activities run through the season, and the resort operates as a wedding venue. Pets are welcome. Larkspur sits in Douglas County pine and scrub oak country, 40 miles from Denver and 35 from Colorado Springs. Summer is peak on the Front Range. Reserve well ahead.

from $44/night

Garden of the Gods

50 RV Sites, 12 Cabins

Garden of the Gods RV Resort in Colorado Springs offers 50 full-hookup RV sites and 12 cabins in the foothills of Pikes Peak, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet. Deluxe pull-through and Deluxe+ back-in categories sit near one of Colorado's most visited natural landmarks, with a clubhouse, game room, and dog park. Fifty sites run in Deluxe pull-through and Deluxe+ back-in configurations carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 70 feet, with picnic tables and site WiFi. Twelve cabins serve guests without a rig. A general store, laundry, propane fills, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Two policies to check before booking: the resort enforces a ten-year age restriction on RVs, though older coaches are reviewed for approval if you send a photo in advance, and all holiday weekends carry a minimum-stay requirement. A clubhouse, game room, and arcade cover indoor hours, with a playground and dog park on the grounds. The resort is built as a base for the Pikes Peak corridor rather than a destination in itself, and the amenity set reflects that honestly. Pets are welcome. Garden of the Gods Park is the namesake and the neighbor — 300-million-year-old red sandstone fins and monoliths rising vertically from the plains, and one of the most visited natural landmarks in Colorado. The full Pikes Peak recreation and tourism infrastructure and Front Range metropolitan access follow from there. Summer is peak in Colorado Springs. Reserve well ahead, and confirm RV age approval if your coach is over ten years old.

from $82 $72/night

Pine Bluffs RV Resort

10 RV Sites

Pine Bluffs RV Resort in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, offers 10 full-hookup RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, directly off Interstate 80 on the Wyoming-Nebraska line. A general store, on-site dining, personal mailboxes, and walking trails serve travelers with more than the minimum for an overnight. Ten back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 70 feet, with site WiFi. At 10 sites this is small, so reserve rather than counting on availability. A general store, on-site dining, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and personal mailboxes handle the practical side — the mailboxes point to the longer-stay guests the resort also serves. Each space rental includes four people, with a $5 charge for additional guests. Pets are welcome. Walking trails and hiking run from the property, with a state park nearby. The amenity set is genuinely more than an interstate rest stop, which is the resort's positioning. Pine Bluffs sits at the eastern edge of Laramie County's High Plains, where the vast grassland horizon of southeastern Wyoming meets the rolling sandhills of western Nebraska — one of the most open, sky-dominated environments in the American West. The town itself rewards a brief exploration beyond the exit. The resort operates on the I-80 corridor, with summer bringing the heaviest cross-country traffic. With 10 sites on a major interstate, reserve ahead for holiday weekends.

from $45/night

Applewood RV Resort

5 RV Sites

Applewood RV Resort in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, provides full-service urban RV camping in Jefferson County's inner suburb immediately west of Denver, giving guests unmatched access to Colorado's metropolitan amenities, dining, cultural institutions, and the Rocky Mountain recreation corridor while maintaining the practical camping infrastructure—water park, pool, full hookup utilities, and a pond with fishing—that makes urban camping in one of America's most active outdoor-recreation cities genuinely comfortable. Wheat Ridge's position on the Clear Creek corridor between Denver's western suburbs and the foothills communities of Golden and Lakewood places the resort at the precise geographic transition point where metropolitan Denver's grid dissolves into the Colorado Front Range's dramatic mountain landscape. The resort's amenity package serves both the urban-access guest and the recreation-oriented camper: a water park and outdoor pool for on-property cooling during Colorado's warm summer afternoons, a pond with fishing, a river and stream access to Clear Creek's front range flow, full hookup sites with reliable utility connections, pet-friendly policies for the dogs that Colorado outdoor culture routinely involves, laundry, showers, bathrooms, personal mailboxes for extended-stay residents, and Wi-Fi serve the diverse guest population whose Jefferson County stays range from overnight transit camping to extended seasonal residency. The state park access nearby and the golf course proximity extend the recreation beyond the resort property into Jefferson County's exceptionally well-developed public land infrastructure. Wheat Ridge's Clear Creek corridor connects the resort to the Clear Creek Canyon trail system that extends westward into the Front Range's canyon terrain—mountain biking, road cycling on the Clear Creek trail to Golden and Morrison, and white water kayaking in Clear Creek Canyon's Class III-IV rapids provide Front Range outdoor recreation of national quality within minutes of the resort's urban location. The Wheat Ridge Greenbelt and the connecting Jefferson County Open Space trail network give walkers, runners, and cyclists a car-free pathway into the Denver metropolitan area's most extensive urban-edge natural area system. Golden, approximately 8 miles west via US-6 or CO-58, is Colorado's most characterful foothill community—the Coors Brewing Company's flagship brewery, the Colorado School of Mines campus on the hillside above town, the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave on Lookout Mountain, and the Clear Creek Whitewater Park in downtown Golden collectively create a day-visit destination of genuine depth and character. Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, 12 miles southwest of Wheat Ridge, is America's most beloved outdoor concert venue—the naturally formed red sandstone rock formations that frame the 9,450-seat amphitheater create an acoustic and visual environment that performers and audiences consistently rate as the finest outdoor performance setting in the country. Applewood RV Resort operates year-round in Jefferson County's Front Range climate, where the 300-plus annual sunny days that define Denver's climate reputation deliver consistent outdoor recreation conditions and the mild winter temperatures that persist on the urban edge of the Front Range make year-round RV residency viable for the extended-stay guests and seasonal snowbird community that the resort's personal mailbox infrastructure serves. Summer's afternoon thunderstorms and the Front Range's predictable daily mountain convection pattern create the dramatic cloudscapes that make Colorado's high-summer sky photography so rewarding, and the resort's proximity to I-70 gives Colorado mountain-bound travelers the most convenient urban-to-mountain launching point in the Front Range corridor.

from $64/night

Cripple Creek Hospitality House & Travel Park

58 RV Sites

Cripple Creek Hospitality House and Travel Park in Cripple Creek, Colorado, combines full-service RV park accommodations with hotel lodging in one of the most historically rich and geologically dramatic settings in the Colorado Rockies—a high-altitude gold mining town perched at 9,500 feet on the southwestern flank of Pikes Peak where the 1890s gold rush produced one of the wealthiest and most colorful mining communities in American history. The property's year-round operations and position in Cripple Creek's historic commercial district make it a natural base for guests exploring the town's unique combination of Victorian heritage, gaming culture, and high-country outdoor recreation. The park provides full hookup sites with water, electric, and sewer service alongside a dog park, RV storage, food truck access, a recreation center, and laundry facilities—a comprehensive amenity package suited to both short stays and extended winter accommodations in a location where the proximity to gaming, dining, and the town's historical attractions eliminates the need to drive elsewhere for evening entertainment. The hotel component serves guests who prefer standard room accommodations to RV camping, and the combined hotel-and-campground model makes the property useful for mixed travel groups where some members prefer different lodging formats. Cripple Creek occupies a volcanic crater valley on the back side of Pikes Peak in Teller County, a geological curiosity that concentrated the gold-bearing volcanic intrusions responsible for the vast wealth extracted from this district between 1890 and the mid-twentieth century. More than $800 million in gold—equivalent to billions in modern dollars—was extracted from the Cripple Creek and Victor gold districts, making this one of the most productive gold-mining regions in United States history. The Victorian-era brick commercial buildings and mining infrastructure that survive in both Cripple Creek and neighboring Victor provide one of the most complete nineteenth-century mining town landscapes accessible in Colorado. Cripple Creek's legalized gaming—approved in 1991 as part of Colorado's historic mining town casino initiative—fills the town's historic buildings with slots and table games that attract overnight and day visitors from the Colorado Springs and Denver metropolitan areas, providing entertainment revenue that funds the preservation of the town's built heritage. The Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad operates scenic excursion trips through the old mining district during summer, providing passengers with views of historic mine workings and the surrounding high-country landscape. Pikes Peak—accessible via the Pikes Peak Highway from Colorado Springs—is the most-visited mountain in North America and a landmark viewable from multiple overlooks within the Cripple Creek area. Cripple Creek Hospitality House and Travel Park operates year-round at an elevation that brings significant snowfall and genuinely alpine winter conditions to the mining district. Summer and fall represent the most comfortable camping seasons, while the town's winter gaming culture and proximity to Colorado Springs skiing keeps year-round occupancy viable. The property's dual hotel-and-campground identity, full-service park infrastructure, and position in one of Colorado's most historically distinctive communities make it a well-suited base for guests who want to combine casino entertainment, Victorian mining heritage, and high-country Colorado scenery in a single destination.

from $48/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

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

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.

North Shore RV Park & General Store

8 RV Sites, 2 Cabins

North Shore RV and Store in Loveland, Colorado, provides a strategically located campground along US Highway 34 in the northern Front Range foothills, positioning guests at the eastern threshold of the Big Thompson River Canyon and within comfortable range of both the recreational lakes of Larimer County and the dramatic mountain terrain of Rocky Mountain National Park to the west. Serving as a practical gateway property for travelers transitioning between the Front Range urban corridor and the Rocky Mountain high country, the park combines solid utility infrastructure with an on-site general store that covers essential supply needs. Full hookup sites with water, electric, and sewer connections accommodate a range of RV sizes along the Highway 34 corridor, and the on-site general store functions as a one-stop resource for fuel, groceries, camping supplies, and the local information that first-time visitors to the canyon country need before heading into mountain terrain. The store's presence distinguishes North Shore from parks that require guests to drive to Loveland or Estes Park for resupply, a meaningful convenience for travelers arriving late or departing early in the mountain time window before weather changes. The northern Colorado Front Range landscape surrounding Loveland is defined by the dramatic transition from the flat Great Plains to the east and the suddenly vertical granite and gneiss peaks of the Colorado Front Range to the west—a transition that happens with a geological abruptness unusual even among mountain fronts. The Big Thompson River carves a steep, forested canyon through the hogbacks west of Loveland, following a drainage that has supported recreation, ranching, and water supply infrastructure for the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District for over a century. Boyd Lake and Carter Lake, two state parks within Loveland's immediate vicinity, provide warm-water fishing, boating, and camping that supplement the colder mountain recreation available farther west. Rocky Mountain National Park, accessible via the Fall River Road entrance at Estes Park approximately 30 miles west of Loveland via Highway 34, protects over 415 square miles of alpine tundra, glacial valleys, and high-elevation peaks that include Longs Peak, the northernmost fourteener in Colorado. The park's wildlife—elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep, moose, and black bear—are regularly visible from roadside pullouts and popular trail corridors, and the Trail Ridge Road crossing provides the most accessible high-alpine drive in the Rocky Mountain National Park system when it opens in late spring. Fort Collins, home to Colorado State University and a thriving brewery and dining district, lies approximately 15 miles north of Loveland along US-287. North Shore RV and Store operates year-round, with summer representing the peak season when Rocky Mountain National Park visitation reaches maximum intensity and timed entry permits are required for the most popular park zones. Spring and fall offer genuine appeal for guests who want mountain access without summer crowds, and the park's proximity to Boyd Lake State Park extends the camping season with warm-water recreation options on either end of the high-country window. Advance reservations for summer weekends are recommended, and guests heading into the park should check timed entry permit availability well before departure.

from $30/night