Cherryvale Park
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:23 UTC
- A night
- $18–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cherryvale Park is located on the crystal clear Big Hill Lake in southeast Kansas. The lake boasts three campgrounds, three equestrian trails 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
This facility offers 22 campsites along with one group site that offers full hookups and a shelter. The facility offers a bathroom, and shower that are closed in the off season, pit toilets are open year around. The swimbeach is located in Moundvalley Park, one vehicle is allowed free of charge pre campsite.
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 Park offers a relaxing atmosphere with plenty of trees for shade, and the lake is only a short walk away from the campsites.
Nearby Attractions
The Cherryvale Kansas Historical Museum, 215 E 4th St. Cherryvale, KS 67335 Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (620) 336-2741.
What the agency tells you
Alcoholic beverages are prohibited within the Mound Valley Swimming Beach Area
Flush toilets and showers are closed outside of the reservation season, however vault toilets are available in the north loop
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
- 24 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 24 electric, 24 water, 14 sewer
- Longest rig
- 68 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…that are closed in the off season, pit toilets are open year around. The swimbeach is located in…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 30th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
1 of 46 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:23 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$24 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 24 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. 24 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| NLOO | 21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 530 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 22 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 119 ft | 617 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 23 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 567 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 24 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 480 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 25 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 141 ft | 310 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 26 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 126 ft | 405 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 27 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 530 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 28 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 609 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 29 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 605 ft | $18–$24 |
| NLOO | 30 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 91 ft | 693 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 01 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 355 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 02 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 341 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 03 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 378 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 04 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 113 ft | 579 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 05 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 446 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 06 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 529 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 07 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 381 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 08 | standard electric | 61 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 339 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 09 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 323 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 10 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 365 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 598 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | 19 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | $18–$24 | ||
| SLOO | 20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 636 ft | $18–$24 |
| SLOO | G-1 | group standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 208 ft | 432 ft | $200 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Downstream Point0.0 mi
Mound Valley0.0 mi
Timber Hill Park1.9 mi
Outlet Channel18 mi
Card Creek22 mi
Washington Cove36 miFrom Highway 169 in Cherryvale, Kansas, turn east onto Main Street. Continue through the town and turn right onto Olive Street. After half a block turn left onto County Route 5000. Continue 4.5 miles to the lake and follow signs to the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Parsons, KS
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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
Cherryvale 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 →