Timber Creek Park
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 21All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Click or tap here to quickly download a new and up to date digital map of the campground that shows tree cover, site length, and site locations. Timber Creek provides visitors with primitive camping opportunities with beautiful sunsets and the comforts of a nearby small town. An expanse of 33,000 acres surrounding the lake is public, protected land that's home to an array of wildlife. It's also an ideal setting for outdoor recreation like hiking, swimming, hunting, fishing and driving off-road vehicles at the ORV area. Click here for the Milford Lake virtual tour. Keep reading
Recreation
Activities include boating, swimming, fishing, hunting, hiking, wildlife viewing and biking. Nearly 70% of the land resources are available for public hunting and the park is a great place to catch blue cats from the shoreline.
Facilities
Timber Creek is a primitive campground. The campsites are all within walking and viewing distance of the lake. Water is available for public use. Vault restrooms are located within the campground.
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.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site.
Check Out time is 5PM - Check In time is 6pm.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 21
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 48 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…lake. Water is available for public use. Vault restrooms are located within the campground. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and viewing distance of the lake. Water is available for public use. Vault restrooms are located within…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 22nd 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
21 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 21 mapped sitesAll 21 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. 21 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 49 ft | 517 ft | $10 |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 388 ft | $10 |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 42 ft | 403 ft | $10 |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 30 ft | 444 ft | $10 |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 44 ft | 579 ft | $10 |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 32 ft | 662 ft | $10 |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 37 ft | 697 ft | $10 |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 38 ft | 591 ft | $10 |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 31 ft | 518 ft | $10 |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | 426 ft | $10 |
| A | 19 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 52 ft | 341 ft | $10 |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 44 ft | 536 ft | $10 |
| A | 20 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 42 ft | 369 ft | $10 |
| A | 21 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 30 ft | 416 ft | $10 |
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 44 ft | 572 ft | $10 |
| A | 4 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 44 ft | 593 ft | $10 |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 32 ft | 642 ft | $10 |
| A | 6 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 37 ft | 660 ft | $10 |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 45 ft | 613 ft | $10 |
| A | 8 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 38 ft | 578 ft | $10 |
| A | 9 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 31 ft | 519 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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
School Creek Camground5.7 mi
Farnum Creek6.0 mi
Curtis Creek8.5 mi
West Rolling Hills10 mi
Outlet Park (KS)11 mi
East Rolling Hills Park (KS)11 miTake I-70 to exit 295 then north on Highway 77. Drive 18 miles to highway 82. Take 82 West for 2 miles and Timber Creek park entrance will be located on the south side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wakefield, 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
Timber Creek 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 →