Red Hills Motel & RV Park

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.