Damsite - Fall River Lake
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 14 nights read 15:17 UTC
- A night
- $6–$21Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 33All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fall River Dam is located on Fall River, a tributary of the Verdigris River, in Greenwood County, Kansas. Opportunities for outdoor family fun and recreation include swimming, boating, water skiing, camping, picnicking and sightseeing. Keep reading
Recreation
Fall River and Lake provide visitors with endless boating, water skiing, jet skiing and swimming opportunities. Anglers will find white bass, bluegill, crappie, green sunfish and channel catfish, to be plentiful. For birdwatchers and nature lovers, there is an 8,000 acre public wildlife area, where prairie chickens, waterfowl of all kinds, rabbits, wild turkeys, white tail deer, doves and quail are commonly seen.
Facilities
This campground straddles Fall River below the spillway. There are 13 rentable sites. 2 sites with 50 amp and water and 6 sites with 30 amp and water. There are 5 sites with water only. Additional amenities include vault toilets, drinking water, and a playground.
Natural Features
Rolling prairies and tree-dotted valleys sheltered by limestone-capped ridges surround Fall Lake. The lake is about a mile wide at the damsite and stretches up the picturesque Fall River for 15 miles. This scenic area has a wealth of native wildlife and vegetation.
Nearby Attractions
Fall River State Park is nearby, offering great fishing and birding along the river. Canoeing is also a popular activity in the park.
What the agency tells you
Damsite West and Damsite East are separated by a river bridge with limited clearance and weight limits; larger vehicles and trailers may need to use either the west or east entrance to the park to avoid this bridge
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
- 33 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 28 electric, 31 water, 18 sewer
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…water only. Additional amenities include vault toilets, drinking water, and a playground. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…amenities include vault toilets, drinking water, and a playground. Natural Features Rolling…”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 7th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 3
16 of 30 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 15:17 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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 · 19
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $6–$21 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 15:17 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
33 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 32 mapped sitesAll 33 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. 33 of the 33 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 001 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 298 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 002 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 53 ft | 326 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 003 | standard electric | 62 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 366 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 004 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 402 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 005 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 419 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 52 ft | 594 ft | $6–$12 | ||
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 546 ft | $6–$12 | ||
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 503 ft | $6–$12 | ||
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 55 ft | 470 ft | $6–$12 | ||
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 010 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 317 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 011 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 256 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 87 ft | 195 ft | $6–$12 | ||
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 013 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | $12–$21 | |||
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 014 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 177 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 016 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 134 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 017 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 139 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 018 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 128 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 019 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 132 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 020 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 161 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 021 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 299 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 022 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 297 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 023 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 260 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 024 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 232 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 025 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 88 ft | 189 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 026 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 228 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 027 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 296 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 028 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 320 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 029 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 66 ft | 367 ft | $12–$21 |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 030 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 386 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 031 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | yes | 77 ft | 398 ft | $12–$21 |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 032 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 383 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | 033 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 369 ft | $12–$21 | |
| DAMSITE FALL RIVER LAKE | GS | group standard electric | 30 amp | 152 ft | 251 ft | $100 |
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 33 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Whitehall Bay1.5 mi
Card Creek29 mi
Outlet Channel30 mi
Timber Hill Park42 mi
Cherryvale Park42 mi
Downstream Point42 miFrom US HWY 400, turn left (north) at mile marker 344 (Z 50 Rd) 0.09 miles, turn right (east) 2.4 miles, turn right (south) at entrance to park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fall River, 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
Damsite - Fall River Lake is in Kansas’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Ron Estes (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →