Farnum Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 51All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Farnum Creek is a quaint double-loop campground set on the lovely shores of Milford Lake. Click or tap here for an updated map of Farnum Creek Click here for the Milford Lake Virtual Tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, swimming, fishing, birding and biking are among the many things to do at Milford Lake. Nearly 70% of the land resources are available for public hunting and for fishermen returning from a successful trip, there is a fish cleaning station.
Facilities
The campground has five pull-through RV pads, one of which is an accessible site. Of the 59 cap sites, more than half have electric hookups. The park offers the comfort of hot showers, a playground and boat ramp.
Natural Features
Milford Lake, at 1,200 ft. elevation, extends from the Republican River. It's the largest man-made lake in Kansas, with a surface area of 15,700 acres and 163 miles of shoreline.
Nearby Attractions
The Milford Nature Center and Fish Hatchery is below the Milford Dam. Beside the nature center is a golf course.
What the agency tells you
Please wear life jackets at all times while on or around the water
Visitor hours end at 9 p.m.
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
- 51
- Hookups
- 46 electric, 46 water
- Paved pads
- 1 of 51
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The park offers the comfort of hot showers, a playground and boat ramp.”
- 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
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 15
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
51 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 51 mapped sitesAll 51 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. 51 of the 51 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A Loop | A001 | standard electric | 50 amp | 41 ft | 478 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A002 | standard electric | 50 amp | 41 ft | 448 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A003 | standard electric | 50 amp | 24 ft | 415 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A004 | standard electric | 50 amp | 24 ft | 405 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A005 | standard electric | 50 amp | yes | 53 ft | 377 ft | $22–$24 |
| A Loop | A006 | standard electric | 30 amp | 39 ft | 596 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A007 | standard electric | 30 amp | 36 ft | 571 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A008 | standard electric | 30 amp | 6 ft | 501 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A009 | standard electric | 30 amp | 36 ft | 539 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A010 | standard electric | 30 amp | 6 ft | 495 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A011 | standard electric | 30 amp | 45 ft | 454 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A012 | standard electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 415 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A013 | standard electric | 30 amp | 50 ft | 380 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A014 | standard electric | 30 amp | 50 ft | 340 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A015 | standard electric | 30 amp | 53 ft | 279 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A016 | standard electric | 30 amp | 53 ft | 225 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A017 | standard electric | 30 amp | 7 ft | 145 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A018 | standard electric | 30 amp | 7 ft | 137 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A019 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 110 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A020 | standard electric | 30 amp | 47 ft | 105 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A021 | standard electric | 30 amp | 51 ft | 100 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A022 | standard electric | 30 amp | 51 ft | 93 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A023 | standard electric | 30 amp | 6 ft | 90 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A024 | standard electric | 30 amp | 6 ft | 84 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A025 | standard electric | 30 amp | 60 ft | 104 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A026 | standard electric | 30 amp | 11 ft | 116 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A027 | standard electric | 30 amp | 32 ft | 118 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A028 | standard electric | 30 amp | 11 ft | 123 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A029 | standard electric | 30 amp | 42 ft | 94 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A030 | standard electric | 30 amp | 30 ft | 120 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A031 | standard electric | 30 amp | 30 ft | 138 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A032 | standard electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 199 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A033 | standard electric | 30 amp | 48 ft | 245 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A034 | standard electric | 30 amp | 81 ft | 326 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A035 | standard electric | 30 amp | 18 ft | 502 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A036 | standard electric | 30 amp | 24 ft | 516 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A037 | standard electric | 30 amp | 18 ft | 488 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A038 | standard electric | 30 amp | 74 ft | 577 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A039 | standard electric | 30 amp | 79 ft | 178 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A040 | standard electric | 30 amp | 57 ft | 149 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A041 | standard electric | 30 amp | 55 ft | 183 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A042 | standard electric | 30 amp | 55 ft | 186 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A043 | standard electric | 30 amp | 5 ft | 205 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A044 | standard electric | 30 amp | 5 ft | 210 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A045 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 290 ft | $22–$24 | |
| A Loop | A046 | standard electric | 30 amp | 88 ft | 388 ft | $22–$24 | |
| B Loop | B001 | standard nonelectric | 188 ft | 218 ft | $14 | ||
| B Loop | B002 | standard nonelectric | 149 ft | 119 ft | $14 | ||
| B Loop | B003 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 218 ft | $14 | ||
| B Loop | B004 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 307 ft | $14 | ||
| B Loop | B005 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 217 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 51 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
School Creek Camground2.2 mi
Curtis Creek5.2 mi
Outlet Park (KS)5.5 mi
West Rolling Hills5.6 mi
East Rolling Hills Park (KS)5.8 mi
Timber Creek Park6.0 miTake I-70 to exit 295 then north on Highway 77. Drive 11 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 Milford, 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
Farnum 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 →