Carbolyn Park
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Carbolyn Park is located in eastern Kansas along Dragoon Creek, just east of Pomona Lake. The scenic park appeals to family campers, sportsmen and water sport enthusiasts. The reservoir covers 4,000 acres and offers excellent fishing and boating opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, boating, picnicking, and hunting are favorite activities on and around Pomona Lake. The lake's fish and wildlife resources provide ample opportunities for sportsmen and women. Three nearby trails meander around Pomona, providing visitors with hiking and nature study opportunities. Deer Creek Nature Trail and Witches' Broom Trail are short trails for hikers. The Black Hawk Trail offers a 33 mile loop with several trailheads. It is a popular hiking, horseback riding, and mountain biking path.
Facilities
Carbolyn Park Campground offers 32 campsites, 29 of which have electric and water hookups. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, dump station, picnic shelter, boat ramp and numerous bank-fishing areas. The local sheriff's department and Corps of Engineers rangers patrol the park during the recreation season. A visitor center is located a short distance from the park and provides educational displays about the lake and its environment.
Natural Features
Pomona Lake is situated among the rolling hills, mixed grasslands, croplands and forests of eastern Kansas. Wildlife and numerous species of birds can be observed at this secluded, heavily shaded campground. Bald eagles, white-tailed deer, Canada geese, wild turkey, crappie, walleye, channel catfish and other wildlife can be found here.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous parks lie on the banks of Pomona Lake, offering additional boating, fishing, swimming, hunting, and hiking opportunities. The town of Lyndon, Kansas is less than 10 miles away, with limited restaurants and shops. This small town is home to 22 historical sites and the smallest Carnegie library still in use.
What the agency tells you
Visitors are expected to be aware of park general rules
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26
- Hookups
- 22 electric, 22 water
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, dump station,…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, dump station, picnic shelter, boat ramp and numerous bank-fishing areas.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Picnicking
- Night sky · 35th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$20 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 26 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 26 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CARB | 01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 499 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 02 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 449 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 03 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 399 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 546 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 482 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 06 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 493 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 07 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 549 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 08 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 600 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 484 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 10 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 481 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 11 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 469 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 12 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 459 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 488 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 14 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 537 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 15 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 598 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 16 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 449 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 17 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 439 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 18 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 431 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 421 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 21 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 373 ft | $14 | |
| CARB | 22 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 342 ft | $14 | |
| CARB | 23 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 360 ft | $14 | |
| CARB | 24 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 417 ft | $14 | |
| CARB | 26 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 325 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 27 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 303 ft | $20 |
| CARB | 29 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 273 ft | $20 |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Wolf Creek (KS)6.0 mi
Outlet (Pomona Lake)6.8 mi
Michigan Valley7.1 mi
Outlet(Melvern)11 mi
Coeur D'alene12 mi
Arrow Rock13 miLocated 25 miles south of Topeka on US 75. The park entrance is 4.5 miles north of Lyndon, KS on US 75 on the east side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Vassar, KS
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Carbolyn Park is in Kansas’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Derek Schmidt (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →