Curtis Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7166 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Curtis Creek Park is a classic camping destination with a wealth of options for boating, hiking, hunting and fishing. The park area provides excellent views of Milford Lake and Milford Dam. In total, the Milford Lake region is home to 33,000 acres of public land protected for recreation, wildlife and cultural resources. Click here for the Milford Lake Virtual Tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether it's boating, birding, fishing or biking, Curtis Creek provides opportunities for all types of visitors. Water skiing is popular sport on the lake, while an accessible floating fishing dock provides an ideal location for catching trout closer to shore.
Facilities
The majority of sites have electric and water hookups and modern amenities such as flush toilets and hot showers, provide a comfortable camping experience. A boat ramp and playground are both provided for entertainment and convenience.
Natural Features
The campground is on a peninsula on the banks of Milford Lake, the largest man-made lake in Kansas. Fed by the waters of the Republican River, Milford Lake spans a surface area of 15,700 acres and an impressive 163 miles of shoreline.
Nearby Attractions
Hiking trails include the Waterfall Trail and the Crystal Trail. The wildlife Viewing Tower and Trail is a hot spot for excellent wildlife viewing. The Milford Education Center and Fish Hatchery are located below the dam.
What the agency tells you
Please wear life jackets at all times while on or around the water
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
- 71 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- 56 electric, 41 water
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…hookups and modern amenities such as flush toilets and hot showers, provide a comfortable camping…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Facilities The majority of sites have electric and water hookups and modern amenities such as flush toilets and hot showers, provide a comfortable camping experience.”
- 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
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 41st darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 66 of the 71 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
71 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 60 mapped sitesAll 71 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. 66 of the 71 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A001 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 259 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A002 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 244 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A003 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 229 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A004 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 41 ft | 230 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A005 | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | yes | 79 ft | 201 ft | $22–$24 |
| A | A006 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 115 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A007 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 121 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A008 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 154 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A009 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 186 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A010 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 183 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A011 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 238 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A012 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 60 ft | 188 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A013 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 45 ft | 165 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A014 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 45 ft | 156 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A015 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 59 ft | 131 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A016 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 59 ft | 119 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A017 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 48 ft | 123 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A018 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 48 ft | 90 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A019 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 99 ft | 73 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A020 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 79 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A021 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 51 ft | 105 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A022 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 30 ft | 118 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A023 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 30 ft | 107 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A024 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 149 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A025 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 47 ft | 196 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A | A026 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 253 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | (delete)B004 | type not stated | 55 ft | 30 amp | 215 ft | |||
| B | (delete)B011 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 226 ft | |||
| B | (delete)B012 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 252 ft | |||
| B | (delete)B014 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 298 ft | |||
| B | B001 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 242 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B002 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 208 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B003 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 165 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B004 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 170 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B005 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 75 ft | 166 ft | $22–$24 |
| B | B006 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 209 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B007 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 265 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B008 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 304 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B009 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 503 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B010 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 546 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B011 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 196 ft | 737 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B012 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 805 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B013 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 749 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B014 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 694 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | B015 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 639 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B | delete | type not stated | 55 ft | 30 amp | 164 ft | |||
| C | C001 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 119 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C002 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 116 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C003 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | $22–$24 | |||
| C | C004 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 125 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C005 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 131 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C006 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 179 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C007 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 231 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C008 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 89 ft | 247 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C009 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | $22–$24 | |||
| C | C010 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 293 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C011 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 307 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C012 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | $22–$24 | |||
| C | C013 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 329 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C014 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | $22–$24 | |||
| C | C015 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 107 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C016 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 130 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C017 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | $22–$24 | |||
| C | C018 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 164 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C019 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 155 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C020 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | $22–$24 | |||
| C | C021 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 251 ft | $22–$24 | |
| C | C022 (Buddy Site) | standard electric | 80 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 285 ft | $22–$24 | |
| D | D001 | tent only nonelectric | 343 ft | 188 ft | $14 | |||
| D | D002 | tent only nonelectric | 343 ft | 168 ft | $14 | |||
| D | D003 | tent only nonelectric | 462 ft | 190 ft | $14 |
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.
25 of 71 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West Rolling Hills2.1 mi
Outlet Park (KS)3.4 mi
School Creek Camground3.4 mi
East Rolling Hills Park (KS)3.4 mi
Farnum Creek5.2 mi
Timber Creek Park8.5 miTake I-70 to the 290 exit and proceed north 5 miles to 837. Continue west on 837 for 6 miles to reach the park entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Junction City, KS
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
Curtis Creek 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 →