Kansas: 28 state parks
Camping, trails, fees and current alerts are on each park’s page. See these parks on a map
Things to do
- 🥾 Hiking26
- 🚲 Biking22
- 🎣 Fishing19
- ⛵ Boating17
- 🏊 Swimming11
- 🏹 Hunting11
- 🐎 Equestrian11
- 🐦 Birding7
- 🛶 Paddling7
Camping & facilities
- 🏕️ Campsites23
- ♿ Accessible Facilities20
- 🛖 Cabins20
- 🔌 Full Hookups13
- 🚿 Showers10
- 🚤 Boat Ramp8
- 🚐 RV Dump Station6
- 👥 Group Sites4
- 🛝 Playground4
All 28 parks
- Cedar Bluff State ParkCedar Bluff Reservoir splits the park in two: developed Bluffton on the north shore, quieter Page Creek on…
- Cheney State ParkTwo marinas, six boat ramps and 223 reservable electric sites with water sit alongside more than 400…
- Clinton State ParkClinton's campgrounds run to 368 sites, 34 of them with full hookups and 164 primitive, beside a marina that…
- Crawford State ParkSix campgrounds spread across a 500-acre park in the oak woods of southeast Kansas, with seven miles of…
- Cross Timbers State ParkForested flood plains ringed by prairie terraces and oak savanna lie south of Toronto in Woodson County, on…
- Eisenhower State ParkTwenty miles of horse trail and a five-mile bike route cross 1,785 acres on the shore of Melvern Lake. Three…
- El Dorado State ParkTwo thousand acres of park and 4,000 of wildlife area wrap 8,000 acres of water and 98 miles of shoreline at…
- Elk City State ParkAn 857-acre park on Elk City Reservoir's eastern side, where oak and hickory woodland meets meadows of big…
- Fall River State ParkSix short trails cross 1,107 acres of blackjack savanna and flood-plain woods between the Cross Timbers and…
- Flint Hills Trail State ParkAt 118 miles, the longest rail-trail in Kansas and the eighth-longest anywhere in the country, shadowing the…
- Glen Elder State ParkThe 12,500-acre reservoir here covers what was once a mineral spring held sacred by Native Americans, and…
- Hillsdale State ParkSaddle Ridge carries 49 miles of horse and bike trail through 12,000 acres of oak and hickory, with a paved…
- Historic Lake Scott State ParkA spring-fed 100-acre lake lies in a wooded canyon on the high plains, beside El Cuartelejo -- the…
- Kanopolis State ParkThe first state park Kansas designated, set among Smoky Hills country where Dakota sandstone bluffs break…
- Kaw River State ParkSeventy-six forested acres on the Kansas River in Topeka, below the governor's residence at Cedar Crest, with…
- Little Jerusalem Badlands State ParkKansas' largest exposure of Niobrara chalk stands in 100-foot spires over 220 acres of prairie, laid down…
- Lovewell State ParkA north-central Kansas lake park with a seven-station archery range, disc golf, sand volleyball and the…
- Meade State ParkThe Turkey Track Ranch gave up this ground in 1927, leaving an 80-acre lake with 440 acres around it on the…
- Milford State ParkThe southeast shore of the largest lake in Kansas -- 15,700 surface acres and 163 miles of shoreline…
- Mushroom Rock State ParkFive acres beside the Prairie Trail Scenic Byway, holding Dakota rock concretions weathered into mushroom…
- Perry State ParkTwenty-five miles of horse trail and twenty of hike-and-bike wind through forested hills above Perry…
- Pomona State ParkA 490-acre park on 4,000-acre Pomona Reservoir, in the transition zone where Kansas prairie gives way to…
- Prairie Dog State ParkTwo nineteenth-century buildings are preserved here, a one-room school and a renovated adobe house, above…
- Prairie Spirit Trail State ParkA linear park along a former rail bed, running 51 miles between Iola and Ottawa with Garnett at the midway…
- Sand Hills State ParkA 1,123-acre natural area north of Hutchinson preserved for its dunes, grasslands, wetlands and woods…
- Tuttle Creek State ParkFive units -- River Pond, Rocky Ford, Cedar Ridge, Fancy Creek and Randolph -- make up a 1,200-acre park in…
- Webster State ParkAn 880-acre stretch of rolling prairie above 3,700 acres of open water, where deer, turkey, quail and…
- Wilson State ParkCliffs and rocky outcrops punctuate a rugged reservoir shoreline deep in Smoky Hills country, reached along…
Parks in other states
- Alabama22
- Alaska109
- Arizona32
- Arkansas54
- California260
- Colorado43
- Connecticut100
- Georgia64
- Hawaiʻi52
- Idaho28
- Illinois106
- Indiana79
- Iowa56
- Kentucky47
- Louisiana38
- Maryland68
- Massachusetts149
- Minnesota71
- Mississippi21
- Missouri93
- Montana54
- Nebraska75
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- North Carolina46
- North Dakota18
- Oklahoma38
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- Tennessee66
- Texas93
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