East Rolling Hills Park (KS)
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
East Rolling Hills day use park is the largest day use park the Corps of Engineers offers at Milford Lake with six shelters available for reservations. Each shelter location is unique but all offer a beautiful view of Milford Lake. Inside the park a swim beach and free boat ramp are also offered to the public. Click here for the Milford Lake Virtual Tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Activities at Milford Lake include boating, swimming, fishing, hunting, hiking, wildlife viewing and biking. Milford Lake is known to have great sail boating opportunities as well.
Facilities
Each shelter has a vault toilet and grill available for use and several of the shelters have playgrounds, horseshoe pits and sand volleyball courts nearby. The park offers a full size basketball court as well.
Natural Features
Milford Lake is nestled on the edge of the Kansas Flint Hills and is fed by the Republican River. Milford Lake stands as the largest man-made lake in Kansas, with a surface area of 15,700 acres and 163 miles of shoreline. Milford Lake is also the home of the states third largest wetland and is known for a variety of wildlife.
Nearby Attractions
The Milford Nature Center and Fish Hatchery is nearby just below the dam. There you can find live animal exhibits as well as learn about the ecosystems of Kansas. A golf course is adjacent to the nature center on the north end of the Dam and the town of Junction City is approximately five miles from North Overlook Shelter.
What the agency tells you
No parking / driving on grass, including loading and unloading.
Temporary signage to direct visitors should not be attached to park facilities and must be removed the day of the event.
All pets must be contained or on a leash.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
The shelter and surrounding area are to be picked up prior to departing.
Barbecue pits may not be dug.
Please wear life jackets at all times while on or around the water.
To contact the Milford Lake Project Office, please call (785) 238-5714.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…as well. Facilities Each shelter has a vault toilet and grill available for use and several of the…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 6 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
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 · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
6 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 6 mapped sitesAll 6 records
| EAST ROLLING HILLS PARK (KS) | 1 | day use | 555 ft | 394 ft |
| EAST ROLLING HILLS PARK (KS) | 2 | day use | 368 ft | 279 ft |
| EAST ROLLING HILLS PARK (KS) | 3 | day use | 368 ft | 292 ft |
| EAST ROLLING HILLS PARK (KS) | 4 | day use | 935 ft | 452 ft |
| EAST ROLLING HILLS PARK (KS) | 5 | day use | 283 ft | 2,203 ft |
| EAST ROLLING HILLS PARK (KS) | 6 | day use | 283 ft | 2,470 ft |
The agency files 6 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Outlet Park (KS)0.2 mi
West Rolling Hills1.4 mi
Curtis Creek3.4 mi
School Creek Camground5.1 mi
Farnum Creek5.8 mi
Timber Creek Park11 miTake I-70 to exit 295, then 4.5 miles north to Hwy. 57, then east approximately 1.5 miles to 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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
East Rolling Hills Park (KS) 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyDerek SchmidtU.S. Representative · Kansas’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJerry MoranU.S. Senator · Kansas
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRoger MarshallU.S. Senator · Kansas
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject East Rolling Hills Park (KS) has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Derek Schmidt, I’m a constituent in Kansas’s 2nd district. East Rolling Hills Park (KS), Kansas carries 6 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about East Rolling Hills Park (KS) (Kansas) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject East Rolling Hills Park (KS) has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Jerry Moran, I’m a constituent in Kansas. East Rolling Hills Park (KS), Kansas carries 6 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about East Rolling Hills Park (KS) (Kansas) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject East Rolling Hills Park (KS) has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Roger Marshall, I’m a constituent in Kansas. East Rolling Hills Park (KS), Kansas carries 6 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about East Rolling Hills Park (KS) (Kansas) via campanac.com