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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · KS

Minooka Park

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:16 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:16 UTC
A night: $8–$20When it reopens, per site
Sites: 146In the agency’s record

Photos · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

107 ftLongest rig

1,560 ftElevation

1,797 ftWater · Wilson Lake

13.1 miNE of Russell, KS

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices

In the agency’s own words

Minooka Park Campground is located on the south side of Wilson Lake in the wide open spaces of central Kansas. Named for the Otoe Indian word meaning "Good Earth," this park offers many campsites with scenic lake views and excellent shoreline access. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating is the most popular pastime on the lake, with plenty of room for water skiing, wake boarding, jet skiing, sailing and more. The high salinity content of the Saline River makes drinking and irrigation difficult without special treatment, but it aids the stocking of ocean-native Striped Bass, which have been known to reach enormous sizes in Wilson Lake. This and many other game fish species have been enhanced by a stocking program conducted by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. Walleye, Large and Smallmouth bass can be found in abundance in the lake, as well as White bass, Striped bass, and channel and flathead catfish. Several trails are also available to visitors, including the Prairie Fire Trail, a self-guided interpretive trail. Wilson Lake also offers hunting opportunities for a variety of game animals, including pheasant, quail, prairie chicken, whitetail deer, turkey, waterfowl and rabbit.

Facilities

Minooka Park Campground offers 159 reservable modern campsites, along with 12-site group camp area and a large group picnic shelter that can accommodate up to 50 guests. Campsites offer sweeping views of the lake and access to hiking trails and a boat ramp. A sand volleyball court, playground and swimming beach make the area perfect for families.

Natural Features

Wilson lake, known as the "clearest lake in Kansas," is located in the Smoky Hills of North Central Kansas--a rolling landscape of hills, buttes and hazy valleys. Also known as Post Rock Country, the area contains thousands of miles of stone fenceposts and buildings that have been constructed out of the area's local limestone. This and other unique geologic formations and mixed grass prairie lands provide an excellent scenic backdrop for recreation around the lake.

Nearby Attractions

Visitors may want to explore other nearby recreation areas including Lucas and Sylvan Parks, as well as Wilson State Park, located on the south side of the lake. The nearby town of Lucas is known for its unique artistic spirit and attractions, while the town of Wilson and other nearby communities offer visitors a rich historical heritage to explore.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Off-road vehicles are not permitted

Rule

Sites may be available on a first come, first served basis outside of the reservation window

Rule

Limit of one RV and one tent or two tents per camp pad

Everything else this campground posts · 2

Rule

Day passes for the boat launch can be purchased at the self-pay station at the campground

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 146 · 1 group
Hookups: 118 electric, 57 water
Longest rig: 107 ft
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach, Coast; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Hunting; Swimming; Water sports; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 5th darkest of 57 in KS: Bortle 3

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:16 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$8–$20plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, when it reopens$8–$20

Standard Nonelectric$8

Standard Electric$20

Group areas, a night$20–$200

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Sep 16, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Minooka Park closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 17, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

recreation.gov availability, read 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

147 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 147 mapped sites

79 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

64%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomLoop MPAR 001-Day Use Shelter 1092 ftLoop MPAR 002 1092 ftLoop MPAR S09 201 ftLoop MPAR S06 191 ftLoop MPAR S07 191 ft

Least roomLoop ELOO E01 34 ftLoop ELOO E02 34 ftLoop ELOO E11 36 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 147 records

147 of 147 records located

Standard28RV / electric117Group1Day use1

A01 A02 A03 A04 A05 A06 A07 A08 A09 A10 A11 B01 B02 B03 B04 B05 B06 B07 B08 B09 B10 C01 C02 C03 C04 C05 C06 C07 C08 C09 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 D01 D02 D03 D04 D05 D06 D07 D08 D09 D10 D11 D12 D13 D14 D15 D16 D17 D18 D19 D21 D22 D24 D25 D26 D27 D29 D30 E01 E02 E03 E04 E05 E06 E07 E08 E09 E10 E11 E12 E13 E14 E15 E16 E17 E18 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 E24 E25 E26 E27 E28 E29 E30 E31 E32 E33 E34 E35 E36 F01 F03 F04 F05 F06 F08 F09 F10 F11 F12 F13 F14 F15 F16 F17 F18 F20 F23 F24 F25 F26 F28 F29 001-Day Use Shelter 002 S02 S03 S04 S05 S06 S07 S09 S12

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

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The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 146 of the 147 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


ARRO	A01	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	106 ft	512 ft	$20
ARRO	A02	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	106 ft	410 ft	$20
ARRO	A03	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	121 ft	518 ft	$20
ARRO	A04	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	121 ft	399 ft	$20
ARRO	A05	standard nonelectric	35 ft		138 ft	308 ft	$8
ARRO	A06	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	119 ft	257 ft	$20
ARRO	A07	standard nonelectric	35 ft		113 ft	174 ft	$8
ARRO	A08	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	113 ft	134 ft	$20
ARRO	A09	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	147 ft	234 ft	$20
ARRO	A10	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	94 ft	109 ft	$20
ARRO	A11	standard nonelectric	35 ft		94 ft	36 ft	$8
BLUE	B01	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	114 ft	253 ft	$20
BLUE	B02	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	78 ft	185 ft	$20
BLUE	B03	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	76 ft	140 ft	$20
BLUE	B04	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	76 ft	145 ft	$20
BLUE	B05	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	102 ft	142 ft	$20
BLUE	B06	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	108 ft	249 ft	$20
BLUE	B07	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	123 ft	177 ft	$20
BLUE	B08	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp	118 ft	293 ft	$20
BLUE	B09	standard nonelectric	35 ft		105 ft	212 ft	$8
BLUE	B10	standard nonelectric	35 ft		105 ft	299 ft	$8
COTT	C01	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp	67 ft	284 ft	$20
COTT	C02	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	86 ft	396 ft	$20
COTT	C03	standard electric	36 ft	30 amp	67 ft	280 ft	$20
COTT	C04	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp	46 ft	366 ft	$20
COTT	C05	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	46 ft	399 ft	$20
COTT	C06	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	79 ft	290 ft	$20
COTT	C07	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	100 ft	324 ft	$20
COTT	C08	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	75 ft	429 ft	$20
COTT	C09	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	80 ft	358 ft	$20
COTT	C10	standard electric	57 ft	30 amp	80 ft	339 ft	$20
COTT	C11	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	107 ft	441 ft	$20
COTT	C12	standard electric	62 ft	30 amp	50 ft	399 ft	$20
COTT	C13	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	83 ft	277 ft	$20
COTT	C14	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp	69 ft	128 ft	$20
COTT	C15	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	74 ft	107 ft	$20
COTT	C16	standard electric	57 ft	30 amp	67 ft	219 ft	$20
COTT	C17	standard electric	61 ft	30 amp	67 ft	208 ft	$20
COTT	C18	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	54 ft	89 ft	$20
COTT	C19	standard electric	64 ft	30 amp	54 ft	88 ft	$20
COTT	C20	standard electric	57 ft	30 amp	79 ft	200 ft	$20
COTT	C21	standard electric	38 ft	30 amp	67 ft	67 ft	$20
COTT	C22	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	79 ft	184 ft	$20
COTT	C23	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	67 ft	59 ft	$20
COTT	C24	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	90 ft	170 ft	$20
COTT	C26	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	90 ft	151 ft	$20
COTT	C27	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	77 ft	203 ft	$20
COTT	C28	standard electric	57 ft	30 amp	69 ft	151 ft	$20
COTT	C29	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	69 ft	214 ft	$20
COTT	C30	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	80 ft	313 ft	$20
COTT	C31	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	80 ft	384 ft	$20
DAKO	D01	standard nonelectric	50 ft		93 ft	502 ft	$8
DAKO	D02	standard nonelectric	51 ft		87 ft	408 ft	$8
DAKO	D03	standard electric	59 ft	30 amp	74 ft	409 ft	$20
DAKO	D04	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	79 ft	332 ft	$20
DAKO	D05	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	81 ft	303 ft	$20
DAKO	D06	standard electric	57 ft	30 amp	75 ft	389 ft	$20
DAKO	D07	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	72 ft	267 ft	$20
DAKO	D08	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	75 ft	364 ft	$20
DAKO	D09	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	72 ft	249 ft	$20
DAKO	D10	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	78 ft	343 ft	$20
DAKO	D11	standard nonelectric	59 ft		68 ft	234 ft	$8
DAKO	D12	standard nonelectric	47 ft		83 ft	323 ft	$8
DAKO	D13	standard nonelectric	52 ft		68 ft	221 ft	$8
DAKO	D14	standard nonelectric	51 ft		62 ft	197 ft	$8
DAKO	D15	standard nonelectric	51 ft		62 ft	178 ft	$8
DAKO	D16	standard nonelectric	50 ft		108 ft	293 ft	$8
DAKO	D17	standard nonelectric	54 ft		74 ft	172 ft	$8
DAKO	D18	standard nonelectric	52 ft		79 ft	228 ft	$8
DAKO	D19	standard nonelectric	59 ft		99 ft	324 ft	$8
DAKO	D21	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	106 ft	431 ft	$20
DAKO	D22	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	95 ft	470 ft	$20
DAKO	D24	standard electric	58 ft	30 amp	87 ft	496 ft	$20
DAKO	D25	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	87 ft	512 ft	$20
DAKO	D26	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	83 ft	405 ft	$20
DAKO	D27	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	86 ft	428 ft	$20
DAKO	D29	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	75 ft	443 ft	$20
DAKO	D30	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	74 ft	474 ft	$20
ELOO	E01	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	34 ft	493 ft	$20
ELOO	E02	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	34 ft	516 ft	$20
ELOO	E03	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	76 ft	431 ft	$20
ELOO	E04	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	38 ft	516 ft	$20
ELOO	E05	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	38 ft	535 ft	$20
ELOO	E06	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	76 ft	437 ft	$20
ELOO	E07	standard electric	58 ft	30 amp	77 ft	424 ft	$20
ELOO	E08	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	50 ft	503 ft	$20
ELOO	E09	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	50 ft	499 ft	$20
ELOO	E10	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	77 ft	399 ft	$20
ELOO	E11	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	36 ft	465 ft	$20
ELOO	E12	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	36 ft	467 ft	$20
ELOO	E13	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	80 ft	371 ft	$20
ELOO	E14	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	77 ft	342 ft	$20
ELOO	E15	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	77 ft	318 ft	$20
ELOO	E16	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	119 ft	165 ft	$20
ELOO	E17	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	84 ft	236 ft	$20
ELOO	E18	standard electric	62 ft	30 amp	61 ft	129 ft	$20
ELOO	E19	standard electric	56 ft	30 amp	61 ft	128 ft	$20
ELOO	E20	standard electric	32 ft	30 amp	84 ft	220 ft	$20
ELOO	E21	standard electric	61 ft	30 amp	83 ft	153 ft	$20
ELOO	E22	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	76 ft	268 ft	$20
ELOO	E23	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	76 ft	281 ft	$20
ELOO	E24	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	77 ft	296 ft	$20
ELOO	E25	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	54 ft	266 ft	$20
ELOO	E26	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	98 ft	166 ft	$20
ELOO	E27	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	54 ft	253 ft	$20
ELOO	E28	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp	38 ft	113 ft	$20
ELOO	E29	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	38 ft	81 ft	$20
ELOO	E30	standard electric	64 ft	30 amp	80 ft	59 ft	$20
ELOO	E31	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	37 ft	102 ft	$20
ELOO	E32	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	37 ft	136 ft	$20
ELOO	E33	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	96 ft	255 ft	$20
ELOO	E34	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	79 ft	349 ft	$20
ELOO	E35	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	48 ft	348 ft	$20
ELOO	E36	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	48 ft	392 ft	$20
FENC	F01	standard nonelectric	55 ft		78 ft	305 ft	$8
FENC	F03	standard nonelectric	52 ft		78 ft	229 ft	$8
FENC	F04	standard nonelectric	52 ft		86 ft	280 ft	$8
FENC	F05	standard nonelectric	35 ft		90 ft	126 ft	$8
FENC	F06	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	80 ft	221 ft	$20
FENC	F08	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	70 ft	221 ft	$20
FENC	F09	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	86 ft	123 ft	$20
FENC	F10	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	70 ft	231 ft	$20
FENC	F11	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp	86 ft	132 ft	$20
FENC	F12	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	98 ft	134 ft	$20
FENC	F13	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp	98 ft	230 ft	$20
FENC	F14	standard electric	58 ft	50 amp	72 ft	154 ft	$20
FENC	F15	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	72 ft	175 ft	$20
FENC	F16	standard nonelectric	57 ft		105 ft	248 ft	$8
FENC	F17	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	115 ft	147 ft	$20
FENC	F18	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	119 ft	213 ft	$20
FENC	F20	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	126 ft	365 ft	$20
FENC	F23	standard nonelectric	52 ft		56 ft	491 ft	$8
FENC	F24	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	95 ft	396 ft	$20
FENC	F25	standard nonelectric	54 ft		73 ft	470 ft	$8
FENC	F26	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	100 ft	363 ft	$20
FENC	F28	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	86 ft	345 ft	$20
FENC	F29	standard nonelectric	59 ft		97 ft	440 ft	$8
MPAR	001-Day Use Shelter	day use		15 amp	1092 ft	319 ft	$20
MPAR	002	group standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	1092 ft	446 ft	$200
MPAR	S02	standard electric	66 ft	50 amp	91 ft	938 ft	$20
MPAR	S03	standard electric	89 ft	50 amp	91 ft	925 ft	$20
MPAR	S04	standard electric	77 ft	50 amp	87 ft	817 ft	$20
MPAR	S05	standard electric	107 ft	50 amp	98 ft	839 ft	$20
MPAR	S06	standard nonelectric	68 ft		191 ft	1,332 ft	$8
MPAR	S07	standard nonelectric	63 ft		191 ft	1,218 ft	$8
MPAR	S09	standard nonelectric	59 ft		201 ft	1,033 ft	$8
MPAR	S12	standard nonelectric	69 ft		87 ft	768 ft	$8

The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

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 147 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions

Coordinate38.93278, -98.57500

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Lucas Park3.4 mi

Sylvan Park5.1 mi

Venango Park38 mi

Riverside (KS)40 mi

French Creek86 mi

Hunter Cove87 mi

Getting there

From Interstate 70, north of Wilson, Kansas, take exit 199 and turn north on Dorrance Road. Continue for 7 miles and follow signs to the campground.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight33°Widespread Frost

Saturday61°Widespread Frost then Sunny

Saturday Night41°Clear

Sunday65°Sunny

NWS forecast for Dorrance, KS

Source: National Weather Service, ICT forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 43°F, day 70°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.

100°32°10°

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.

Measured at: WILSON LAKE, KS (USC00148946), 5 miles away and 48 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Minooka Park is in Kansas’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Tracey Mann (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 16:16 UTC). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 147 of the 146 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 147 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.11 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 57 rated federal campgrounds in Kansas · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Dorrance, KS, 5.4 mi N. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026