Cherryvale Horse Camp
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:41 UTC
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 512 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Cherryvale Horse Camp is located on the crystal clear Big Hill Lake in southeast Kansas. The lake boasts 3 campgrounds, three equestrian trails, two of which offer camping, and four day-use areas for the public to enjoy. Camping, picnicking, horseback riding, hiking, swimming, fishing and other outdoor activities abound. Keep reading
Recreation
Campers can venture onto several hiking and equestrian trails including Big Hill Lake Horse Trail, a 17-mile trail with a variety of terrain for all ages to explore. The trail winds along a scenic hardwood ridge that offers gorgeous views all along the way. Big Hill Lake is known as a trophy lake for fishing. Principal species of sport fish include largemouth bass, crappie, channel and flathead catfish, bluegill, walleye and smallmouth bass. The lake is also popular for fishing tournaments. Almost all of the land around the lake is open to public hunting, except for parks and areas around the dam and control structures. Principal species hunted are whitetail deer, turkey and squirrel. Families with kids will enjoy visiting the sand-covered beach nearby for cooling off from the summer heat and enjoying a picnic.
Facilities
Cherryvale Horse Camp offers vault toilets and horse corrals.
Natural Features
The park is nestled in the rolling, wooded countryside that is referred to as the Little Ozarks. With thick oak-hickory forests surrounded by prairie and farmland, the lake shore supplies a variety of habitats for birds and mammals. cherryvale Horse Camp offers a relaxing atmosphere with plenty of trees for shade, and the lake is only a short walk away from the campsites.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 51 · 51 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 52 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 52 campsite records
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Birding
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
4 of 4 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:41 UTC
recreation.gov lists 2 of the 51 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 →
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recreation.gov availability, read 15:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 records
All 52 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 51 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Cherryvale Horse Camp | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 1 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 10 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 11 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 12 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 13 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 14 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 15 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 16 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 17 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 18 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 19 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 2 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 20 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 21 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 22 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 23 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 24 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 25 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 26 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 27 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 28 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 29 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 3 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 30 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 31 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 32 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 33 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 34 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 35 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 36 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 37 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 38 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 39 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 4 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 40 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 41 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 42 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 43 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 44 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 45 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 46 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 47 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 48 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 49 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 5 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 50 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 6 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 7 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 8 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Camp 9 | equestrian nonelectric | $10 |
| Cherryvale Horse Group Shelter | day use | $30 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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