Turkey Point
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $16–$46Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 49All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Turkey Point Campground is situated on Melvern Lake on the eastern edge of the Flint Hills of Kansas. Visitors enjoy the area's wide range of recreational activities, including boating, fishing, hiking and hunting. Find a virtual tour of Melvern Lake at http://www.photographyoptions.net/images/melvern/tour.html Recreation Melvern Lake impounds nearly 7,000 acres of water on the upper reaches of the Marais des Cygnes River Valley. Boating and swimming are popular activities on the lake. Anglers will find walleye, crappie, channel and flathead catfish, as well as black, striped, white and smallmouth bass. Keep reading
The 18,000 acres of land surrounding Melvern Lake provide plentiful hiking and hunting opportunities. Several trails wind around the lake, including a 1 mile trail located in the campground connecting to the day-use area. Hunters may find deer, quail, turkeys, ducks, rabbits and squirrels throughout the area.
Facilities
The campground offers two group camps. One offers a group campsite with basic amenities, a pit privy, and a shelter with a grill, water, and electricity. The second offers 12 camp pads with 50 amp electric and water utilities, a restroom, a shelter with grill, and a playground. There are 43 family campsites, many with water and electric hook-ups, throughout the park. Several family picnic sites are available on a first-come-first-served basis. Amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A boat ramp, dock, fish cleaning station and three playgrounds all provide additional recreation opportunities. Click Here for a Virtual Tour (http://www.photographyoptions.net/images/melvern/tour.html)
Natural Features
The Flint Hills represent America's last expanse of intact tallgrass prairie, made up of big bluestem, switchgrass and Indian grass. The rolling hills on the south side of the lake are wooded, and the campground has scattered trees and some shade. Contact Info For local information, please call (877) 444-6777 or call (785) 549-3318 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Failure to be on site within 24 hours of your reservation check-in time will result in a no show status.
For the safety of all visitors, please leave your golf carts at home; only licensed, street-legal vehicles are permitted on project roadways, and off-road driving is prohibited. Unless you get pre-approval from Lake Project Office.
A poilicy of the Corps of Engineers is to require all campers, including camping units, that camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive-day period is prohibited.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Under the new reservation system, the Lakeview Group Camp (LVGC) is listed in the TURKEY POINT loop. The Turkey Point Group Camp (TPGC) is listed under loop TPT4.
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.
Call the Melvern Lake Project Office at 785-549-3318 with additional questions.
Melvern Lake virtual tour available at: http://www.photographyoptions.net/images/melvern/tour.html
Generators are allowed on nonelectric sites until quiet hours begin at 10 PM.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 49 · 2 group
- Hookups
- 36 electric, 36 water
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- 17 of 49
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 49 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 49 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Night sky · 17th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Army Corps says
- Yes
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$46 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
49 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 49 mapped sitesAll 49 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 49 of the 49 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. 49 of the 49 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| TPOI | 01 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 329 ft | 1,052 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 02 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 274 ft | 976 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 03 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 240 ft | 905 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 04 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 216 ft | 835 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 05 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 209 ft | 753 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 06 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 200 ft | 673 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 07 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 227 ft | 604 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 08 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 67 ft | 239 ft | 538 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 09 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 203 ft | 346 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 10 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 194 ft | 297 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 12 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 61 ft | 170 ft | 240 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 13 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 61 ft | 158 ft | 233 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 14 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 155 ft | 237 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 15 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 107 ft | 232 ft | 247 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 16 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 100 ft | 207 ft | 233 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 17 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 81 ft | 174 ft | 226 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 18 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 81 ft | 192 ft | 216 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 20 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 48 ft | 199 ft | 264 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 21 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 48 ft | 210 ft | 292 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 22 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 100 ft | 224 ft | 379 ft | $16 | |
| TPOI | 23 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 114 ft | 169 ft | 684 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 24 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 283 ft | 669 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 25 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 330 ft | 598 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 26 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 347 ft | 525 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 27 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 343 ft | 407 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 28 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 344 ft | 338 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 29 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 242 ft | 450 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 30 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 129 ft | 117 ft | 508 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 31 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 606 ft | 355 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 32 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 587 ft | 369 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 33 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 578 ft | 397 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 34 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 586 ft | 441 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 35 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 545 ft | 432 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 36 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 484 ft | 357 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 37 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 550 ft | 314 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 38 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 460 ft | 279 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 39 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 535 ft | 254 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 40 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 514 ft | 195 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 41 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 438 ft | 154 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 43 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 329 ft | 93 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 44 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 363 ft | 165 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 45GC | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 423 ft | 267 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 45GC-A | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 459 ft | 316 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 46 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 472 ft | 239 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 47 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 501 ft | 283 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 49 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 523 ft | 333 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPOI | 50 | standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 543 ft | 388 ft | $22–$46 |
| TPT4 | TPGC | group standard nonelectric | 1306 ft | 99 ft | 151 ft | $50 | ||
| TURKEY POINT | LVGC | group standard electric | 65 ft | 50 amp | 1031 ft | 367 ft | 25 ft | $200 |
25 of 49 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Arrow Rock1.7 mi
Coeur D'alene3.9 mi
Outlet(Melvern)4.6 mi
Carbolyn Park14 mi
Outlet (Pomona Lake)16 mi
Wolf Creek (KS)17 miFrom Osage City, Kansas, take K-170 south. Turn east onto 301st Street and continue 2 miles. Turn south onto Indian Hills Road and proceed about a mile to Turkey Point Parkway. Follow into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Olivet, KS
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°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
Turkey Point 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 1 of 49 campsites here”