School Creek Camground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 39All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
School creek is a primitive campground. No water or electric hook ups are available. Vault restrooms are located very close to each camping loop. A boat ramp is available for use within the park. School Creek Campground sits right next to our School Creek ORV area that is accessible for riders of all ages. All the campsites sit on the banks of Milford Lake, the largest man-made lake in Kansas. Click here for the Milford Lake virtual tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether it's boating, birding, fishing or ATV riding, School Creek provides opportunities for all types of visitors.
Facilities
School Creek is a primitive campground with no water or electric hookups. Vault restrooms are located in the campground and there is also a boat ramp with dock available for use.
Natural Features
Milford Lake is fed by the Republican River and stands as the largest man-made lake in Kansas, with a surface area of 15,700 acres and 163 miles of shoreline.
Nearby Attractions
The State Park offers Hiking trails which include the Waterfall Trail and the Crystal Trail. The wildlife Viewing Tower and Trail is a hot spot for excellent wildlife viewing. The Milford Education Center and Fish Hatchery are located below the dam.
What the agency tells you
Please wear life jackets at all times while on or around the water. Dont 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
- 39
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…or electric hook ups are available. Vault restrooms are located very close to each camping loop. A boat…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 36th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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
39 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 39 mapped sites2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 39 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. 39 of the 39 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | A-001 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 58 ft | 250 ft | $10 |
| A | A-002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 223 ft | $10 |
| A | A-003 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 71 ft | 186 ft | $10 |
| A | A-004 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 161 ft | $10 | |
| A | A-005 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 161 ft | $10 | |
| A | A-006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 54 ft | 162 ft | $10 |
| A | A-007 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 65 ft | 151 ft | $10 |
| A | A-008 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 67 ft | 139 ft | $10 |
| A | A-009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 104 ft | 52 ft | $10 |
| A | A-010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 158 ft | $10 |
| A | A-011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 56 ft | 167 ft | $10 |
| A | A-012 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 54 ft | 189 ft | $10 |
| A | A-013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 54 ft | 226 ft | $10 |
| A | A-014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 117 ft | 333 ft | $10 |
| B | B-001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 41 ft | 364 ft | $10 |
| B | B-002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 41 ft | 342 ft | $10 |
| B | B-003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 50 ft | 321 ft | $10 |
| B | B-004 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 54 ft | 293 ft | $10 |
| B | B-005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 41 ft | 294 ft | $10 |
| B | B-006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 41 ft | 300 ft | $10 |
| B | B-007 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 40 ft | 575 ft | $10 |
| B | B-008 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 40 ft | 539 ft | $10 |
| B | B-009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 42 ft | 508 ft | $10 |
| B | B-010 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 69 ft | 399 ft | $10 |
| B | B-011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 369 ft | $10 |
| B | B-012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 361 ft | $10 |
| B | B-013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 361 ft | $10 |
| B | B-014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 59 ft | 374 ft | $10 |
| B | B-015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 47 ft | 381 ft | $10 |
| B | B-016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 47 ft | 399 ft | $10 |
| B | B-017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 57 ft | 445 ft | $10 |
| B | B-018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 23 ft | 516 ft | $10 |
| B | B-019 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 23 ft | 537 ft | $10 |
| B | B-020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 471 ft | $10 |
| B | B-021 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 52 ft | 519 ft | $10 |
| B | B-022 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 62 ft | 473 ft | $10 |
| B | B-023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 62 ft | 456 ft | $10 |
| B | B-024 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 53 ft | 404 ft | $10 |
| B | B-025 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 53 ft | 411 ft | $10 |
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 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Farnum Creek2.2 mi
Curtis Creek3.4 mi
West Rolling Hills4.4 mi
Outlet Park (KS)4.9 mi
East Rolling Hills Park (KS)5.1 mi
Timber Creek Park5.7 miTake I-70 to the 290 exit and proceed north 5 miles to 837/244 Hwy. Turn left on 837/244 Hwy. for 10 miles to reach Luttman Rd and turn right. Continue on Luttman Rd. for 1 mile to reach the entrance of the ATV area or turn right after 1 mile to go to the campground.
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
School Creek Camground 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 →