Timber Hill Park
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:23 UTC
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Timber Hill is a 20 site non electric campground located on the East side of Big Hill Lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Adjacent to the boat ramp and horse trails.
Facilities
20 non electric campsites. Boat ramp, horse trails. Vault toilets.
Natural Features
Located on top of the hill amongst oak trees with lots of shade.
What the agency tells you
Check in and out is 3pm. Campsites are reservable online or by phone at recreation.gov or 877-444-6777. No pay station at park.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 20 of 20 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 20 of 20 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Night sky · 28th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
40 of 40 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:23 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
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, $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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 20 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. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Main | 1 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 428 ft | $10 |
| Main | 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 217 ft | $10 |
| Main | 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 248 ft | $10 |
| Main | 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 204 ft | $10 |
| Main | 13 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 211 ft | $10 |
| Main | 14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 255 ft | $10 |
| Main | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 407 ft | $10 |
| Main | 16 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 399 ft | $10 |
| Main | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 419 ft | $10 |
| Main | 18 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 439 ft | $10 |
| Main | 19 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 517 ft | $10 |
| Main | 2 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 43 ft | 386 ft | $10 |
| Main | 20 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 488 ft | $10 |
| Main | 3 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 43 ft | 379 ft | $10 |
| Main | 4 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 31 ft | 312 ft | $10 |
| Main | 5 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 31 ft | 282 ft | $10 |
| Main | 6 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 38 ft | 247 ft | $10 |
| Main | 7 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 229 ft | $10 |
| Main | 8 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 31 ft | 224 ft | $10 |
| Main | 9 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 31 ft | 247 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
Cherryvale Park1.9 mi
Downstream Point1.9 mi
Mound Valley1.9 mi
Outlet Channel19 mi
Card Creek22 mi
Washington Cove38 miFrom Dennis, KS go south on Gray Rd to 21000 Rd and turn right. Follow signs to park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dennis, KS
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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 Hill Park 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 →