Outlet (Pomona Lake)
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 14 nights read 16:16 UTC
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 3430 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Outlet Campground is located along 110 Mile Creek in eastern Kansas at Pomona Lake. The scenic park appeals to family campers, sportsmen and water sport enthusiasts. The reservoir covers 4,000 acres and offers excellent fishing and boating opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, boating, picnicking, and hunting are favorite activities on and around Pomona Lake. The lake's fish and wildlife resources provide ample opportunities for sportsmen and women. Three nearby trails meander around Pomona Lake, providing visitors with hiking and nature study opportunities. Deer Creek Nature Trail and Witches' Broom Trail are short trails for hikers. The Black Hawk Trail offers a 33 mile loop with several trailheads and is a popular hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking path.
Facilities
Outlet Campground offers 34 campsites and two group day-use picnic shelters, all of which have electric and water hookups. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, nature trail, dump station, laundry facilities and a boat ramp. The local sheriff's department and Corps of Engineers rangers patrol the park during the recreation season. A visitor center is located a short distance from the park and provides educational displays about the lake and its environment.
Natural Features
Pomona Lake is situated among the rolling hills, mixed grasslands, croplands and forests of eastern Kansas. Wildlife and numerous species of birds can be observed at this secluded, heavily shaded campground. Bald eagles, white-tailed deer, Canada geese, wild turkey, crappie, walleye, channel catfish and other wildlife can be found here.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous parks lie on the banks of Pomona Lake, offering additional boating, fishing, swimming, hunting and hiking opportunities. The town of Lyndon, Kansas is less than 10 miles away, with limited restaurants and shops. This small town is home to 22 historical sites and the smallest Carnegie library still in use.
What the agency tells you
Visitors are expected to be aware of park general rules
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
- 34
- Hookups
- 28 electric, 34 water
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, nature trail, dump…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, nature trail, dump station, laundry facilities and a boat ramp.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Night sky · 38th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
3 of 60 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:16 UTC
recreation.gov lists 30 of the 34 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 36 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 36 of the 36 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 28 of the 36 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| OUTL | 01 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 122 ft | 171 ft | 874 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 02 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 114 ft | 938 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 03 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 154 ft | 990 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 04 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 46 ft | 172 ft | 1,035 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 05 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 50 ft | 180 ft | 1,085 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 06 | standard electric | 42 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 74 ft | 138 ft | 1,223 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 07 | standard electric | 42 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 69 ft | 83 ft | 1,270 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 08 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 69 ft | 78 ft | 1,339 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 09 | standard electric | 55 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 64 ft | 115 ft | 1,460 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 10 | standard electric | 45 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 163 ft | 1,525 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 11 | standard electric | 55 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 108 ft | 1,524 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 12 | standard electric | 42 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 56 ft | 156 ft | 1,585 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 13 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 56 ft | 101 ft | 1,596 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 14 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 152 ft | 1,630 ft | |||
| OUTL | 15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 95 ft | 1,669 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 147 ft | 1,687 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 17 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 61 ft | 157 ft | 1,764 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 61 ft | 199 ft | 1,809 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 19 | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | 194 ft | 1,694 ft | |||
| OUTL | 20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 83 ft | 234 ft | 1,618 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 21 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 317 ft | 1,645 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 22 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 351 ft | 1,606 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 23 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 424 ft | 1,564 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 470 ft | 1,530 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 25 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 490 ft | 1,490 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 26 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 465 ft | 1,446 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 27 | type not stated | 55 ft | 50 amp | 455 ft | 1,293 ft | |||
| OUTL | 28 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 448 ft | 1,267 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 29 | type not stated | 50 ft | 50 amp | 453 ft | 1,226 ft | |||
| OUTL | 30 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 437 ft | 1,223 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 31 | type not stated | 55 ft | 50 amp | 403 ft | 1,261 ft | |||
| OUTL | 32 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 379 ft | 1,291 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | 33 | type not stated | 55 ft | 50 amp | 341 ft | 1,323 ft | |||
| OUTL | 34 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 309 ft | 1,340 ft | $22 | |
| OUTL | MGT | day use | 15 amp | yes | 1541 ft | 302 ftPomona Lake | 1,286 ft | $30 | |
| OUTL | Shelte | day use | 15 amp | yes | 608 ft | 183 ft | 282 ft | $30 |
The agency files 2 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.
25 of 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Michigan Valley1.4 mi
Wolf Creek (KS)2.2 mi
Carbolyn Park6.8 mi
Outlet(Melvern)12 mi
Coeur D'alene13 mi
Arrow Rock15 miFrom US 75 and K-268 junction, proceed east on K-268 for 7 miles, turn north on Pomona Dam Road and proceed 1/2-mile to 229th Street (just before dam). Turn east and proceed 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 Vassar, 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
Outlet (Pomona Lake) 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 →