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Venango Park

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 1 opens May 1.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $18–$36Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 126All of them booked ahead

Photos · Tony Mincu

65 ftLongest rig

1,500 ftElevation

546 ftWater · Kanopolis Lake

13.7 miSE of Ellsworth, KS

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices

In the agency’s own words

Venango Park Campground is located on the eastern shores of Kanopolis Lake in central Kansas, 30 miles southwest of Salina. Kanopolis Lake is on the Smoky Hill River, and is one of the state's oldest lakes. Many outdoor activities are available, including camping, boating, fishing, hunting and ATV riding. Keep reading

Recreation

Kanopolis Lake offers great boating and fishing opportunities with plenty of bluegill, Channel Catfish, White Crappie, Flathead Catfish, Largemouth Bass, Saugeye, Walleye, Wiper and KDWPT stocks Trout seasonally. The Venango Park ATV Trail crisscrosses roughly 5 acres of land within the park, making this a popular destination for ATV and motorcycle enthusiasts. Venango Park offers a 1.7 mile hiking only trail that meanders throughout the park. This trail covers different ecosystems that can be found in the area including forests, grasslands, and wetlands. Keep an eye out for the different flora and fauna that can be found in each. Kanopolis State Park also has trails available for hiking, bicycling, and equestrian riders.

Facilities

Venango Park offers a total of 132 faciltites. There are 126 campsites, 5 day use shelters, and 1 group camp. The 126 campsites are a mixture of electric with water, electric only, primitive, and double sites. Other amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station, boat ramp, beach, playground and nature trail.

Natural Features

The campground is situated on the shady tree-dotted shoreline. Sandstone bluffs, rolling hills, and vast, open prairie lands surround the lake. Wildlife is varied and abundant in the area: Whitetail deer, pheasants, quail, Texas horned lizards, beavers and even Bald eagles are commonly seen. Waterfowl extensively gather at Loder Point Marsh located within the campground. Wildflowers including purple poppy mallow, blue false indigo, yucca and prairie wild rose, put on a colorful display in prairies surrounding the lake.

Nearby Attractions

The Fort Harker Museum in Kanopolis and the Rogers Art Gallery and Museum in Ellsworth both portray the settlement of the American West. The Kanopolis Drive-In theater is just a short drive away, and is open most weekened evenings Charges & Cancellations Reservation cancellation fees and No-Show fees may apply.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Riverside Park is open for camping reservations April 1-30 and Oct 1-Nov 30, call the Kanopolis Project Office at (785) 546-2294 for more information or visit Riverside Park at Kanopolis Lake page to make a reservation.

Rule

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.

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 126 · 1 group
Hookups: 91 electric, 30 water
Longest rig: 65 ft
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets · Pit Toilets; FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 2 of 131 campsite records / PIT TOILETS on 3 of 131 campsite records
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Other amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, showers, a dump station, boat ramp, beach, playground and nature trail.”
Drinking water: Yes; WATER (SEASONAL) on 5 of 131 campsite records
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Camp host: On site; recreation.gov lists “Host”
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records and read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 17, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Fishing; Hiking; Off Road Vehicle Trails; Picnicking; Swimming; Water access
Night sky · 8th darkest of 57 in KS: Bortle 3

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 1, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 1, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nights2-night minimum on weekendsthe facility record

A night$18–$36plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$44–$80DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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Every line of the receipt · 21

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$18–$36

Primitive$18

30 Amp Electric$22

50 Amp Electric$22

30 Amp Electric & Water$24

50 Amp Electric & Water$24

Primitive Double$27

30 Amp Electric Double$33

50 Amp Electric & Water Double$36

Group areas, a night$20–$75

The agency has already scheduled a change from May 1, 2027: $24 to $40 a night.

These are next season’s rates, May 1, 2027 to Sep 30, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$26–$44

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$44–$80

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$36 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

“Reservation cancellation fees and No-Show fees may apply.” · this campground’s own no-show terms

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 · 6

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

131 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 123 mapped sites

73 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

72%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomLoop PAVI P03 615 ftLoop PAVI P04 461 ftRedwood Group Camp 461 ftLoop BLOO B20 225 ftLoop CLOO C41 222 ft

Least roomLoop CLOO C17 38 ftLoop CLOO C18 38 ftLoop KLOO K03 38 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 131 records

125 of 131 records located

Standard31RV / electric87Group1Type not stated2Day use4

A01 A02 A03 A04 A05 A06 A07 A08 A09 A10 A11D A13 A14 A15 A16 A17 A18 A19 A20 A23 A29 B01 B02 B03 B04 B05 B06 B07 B08D B09 B10 B12 B13 B14 B18 B20 C01 C02 C03 C04 C05 C06 C07 C08D C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15D C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C23 C30 C32 C33 C36 C37 C41 D02 D03 D04 D05 D06 D07 D08 D09 D10 D11 D12 D13 D14 D16 D18 D20 D21 D22 D23 D24 D25 D26 D27 D28 D29 D33 D35 D36 D37 D39 D43 D44 D45 D46 D47 D48 D49 D50 E01 E02 E03 E04 E05 E07 E08D E10 E11 E12 E14 E16 K01 K02 K03 K04 K05 K06 K07 P01 P02 P03 P04 Redwood Group Camp

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 34 of the 131 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. 124 of the 131 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


ADMIN	SP - 30 AMP Electric	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp				$22–$36
ADMIN	SP - 30 AMP Electric & Water	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp				$22–$36
ADMIN	SP - 50 AMP Electric	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp				$22–$36
ADMIN	SP - 50 AMP Electric and Water	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp				$22–$36
ADMIN	SP - Primitive	standard nonelectric	29 ft					$18–$27
ALOO	A01	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	92 ft	365 ft	2,309 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A02	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp	92 ft	404 ft	2,248 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A03	standard electric	43 ft	50 amp	93 ft	506 ft	2,291 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A04	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp	70 ft	466 ft	2,199 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A05	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	72 ft	582 ft	2,191 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A06	standard electric	38 ft	50 amp	70 ft	492 ft	2,140 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A07	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	72 ft	591 ft	2,122 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A08	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	86 ft	552 ft	1,999 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A09	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	85 ft	481 ft	1,943 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A10	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	82 ft	416 ft	1,890 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A11D	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp	82 ft	359 ft	1,837 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A13	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	71 ft	325 ft	1,766 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A14	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	60 ft	244 ft	1,803 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A15	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	71 ft	309 ft	1,698 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A16	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	75 ft	159 ft	1,539 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A17	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	75 ft	111 ft	1,604 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A18	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	106 ft	108 ft	1,746 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A19	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	60 ft	211 ft	1,759 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A20	standard electric	16 ft	30 amp	73 ft	192 ft	1,862 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A23	standard electric	20 ft		148 ft	302 ft	1,988 ft	$22–$36
ALOO	A29	standard nonelectric	57 ft		151 ft	172 ft	2,353 ft	$18–$27
BLOO	B01	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	91 ft	478 ft	3,270 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B02	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	86 ft	553 ft	3,212 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B03	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	87 ft	459 ft	3,177 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B04	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	86 ft	551 ft	3,127 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B05	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	68 ft	487 ft	3,055 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B06	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	68 ft	420 ft	3,020 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B07	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	78 ft	438 ft	3,097 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B08D	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	90 ft	273 ft	3,084 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B09	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	68 ft	360 ft	3,113 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B10	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	109 ft	217 ft	3,188 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B12	standard electric	62 ft	30 amp	68 ft	324 ft	3,178 ft	$22–$36
BLOO	B13	standard nonelectric	43 ft		77 ft	291 ft	3,252 ft	$18–$27
BLOO	B14	standard nonelectric	54 ft		119 ft	183 ft		$18–$27
BLOO	B18	standard nonelectric	29 ft		151 ft	481 ft		$18–$27
BLOO	B20	standard nonelectric	65 ft		226 ft	94 ft		$18–$27
CLOO	C01	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp	85 ft	1,240 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C02	standard electric	42 ft	30 amp	49 ft	1,313 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C03	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp	92 ft	1,435 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C04	standard electric	34 ft	30 amp	41 ft	1,369 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C05	standard electric	32 ft	30 amp	41 ft	1,355 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C06	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	53 ft	1,336 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C07	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	68 ft	1,330 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C08D	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	62 ft	1,353 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C10	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	62 ft	1,309 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C11	standard electric	31 ft	30 amp	55 ft	1,218 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C12	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	55 ft	1,196 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C13	standard electric	39 ft	30 amp	60 ft	1,191 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C14	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp	48 ft	1,176 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C15D	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	48 ft	1,170 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C16	standard electric	38 ft	30 amp	40 ft	1,162 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C17	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	38 ft	1,161 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C18	standard electric	41 ft	30 amp	38 ft	1,170 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C19	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp	49 ft	1,265 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C20	standard electric	39 ft	30 amp	60 ft	1,247 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C21	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp	78 ft	1,254 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C23	standard electric	57 ft	30 amp	68 ft	1,264 ft		$22–$36
CLOO	C30	standard nonelectric	52 ft		96 ft	898 ft		$18–$27
CLOO	C32	standard nonelectric	48 ft		96 ft	976 ft		$18–$27
CLOO	C33	standard nonelectric	50 ft		111 ft	1,049 ft		$18–$27
CLOO	C36	standard nonelectric	55 ft		115 ft	1,150 ft		$18–$27
CLOO	C37	standard nonelectric	45 ft		115 ft	1,095 ft		$18–$27
CLOO	C41	standard nonelectric	65 ft		222 ft	1,223 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D02	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	66 ft	935 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D03	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	58 ft	953 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D04	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	66 ft	881 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D05	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	58 ft	900 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D06	type not stated	48 ft	50 amp		840 ft
DLOO	D07	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	108 ft	792 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D08	type not stated	60 ft	50 amp		779 ft
DLOO	D09	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	106 ft	695 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D10	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	69 ft	690 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D11	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	88 ft	613 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D12	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	69 ft	655 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D13	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	76 ft	558 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D14	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	73 ft	606 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D16	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	94 ft	443 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D18	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	70 ft	399 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D20	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	70 ft	346 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D21	standard nonelectric	40 ft		64 ft	316 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D22	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	65 ft	285 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D23	standard nonelectric	40 ft		64 ft	257 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D24	standard nonelectric	40 ft		55 ft	127 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D25	standard nonelectric	40 ft		55 ft	103 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D26	standard nonelectric	40 ft		64 ft	108 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D27	standard nonelectric	52 ft		77 ft	187 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D28	standard nonelectric	52 ft		78 ft	144 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D29	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	73 ft	221 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D33	standard nonelectric	52 ft		107 ft	225 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D35	standard nonelectric	50 ft		55 ft	168 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D36	standard nonelectric	48 ft		81 ft	217 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D37	standard nonelectric	53 ft		55 ft	213 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D39	standard nonelectric	52 ft		63 ft	265 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D43	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	75 ft	362 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D44	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	54 ft	392 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D45	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	76 ft	525 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D46	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp	54 ft	425 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D47	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp	94 ft	544 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D48	standard electric	60 ft	Electricity Hookup	94 ft	601 ft		$22–$36
DLOO	D49	standard nonelectric	40 ft		94 ft	629 ft		$18–$27
DLOO	D50	standard nonelectric	40 ft		122 ft	719 ft		$18–$27
ELOO	E01	standard nonelectric	50 ft		116 ft	583 ft		$18–$27
ELOO	E02	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp	80 ft	481 ft		$22–$36
ELOO	E03	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	72 ft	404 ft		$22–$36
ELOO	E04	standard nonelectric	45 ft		81 ft	442 ft		$18–$27
ELOO	E05	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	72 ft	332 ft		$22–$36
ELOO	E07	standard nonelectric	50 ft		76 ft	256 ft		$18–$27
ELOO	E08D	standard nonelectric	50 ft		67 ft	168 ft		$18–$27
ELOO	E10	standard nonelectric	41 ft		67 ft	137 ft		$18–$27
ELOO	E11	standard nonelectric	36 ft		94 ft	214 ft		$18–$27
ELOO	E12	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	83 ft	303 ft		$22–$36
ELOO	E14	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	65 ft	385 ft		$22–$36
ELOO	E16	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	65 ft	449 ft		$22–$36
KLOO	K01	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	82 ft	324 ft		$22–$36
KLOO	K02	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp	76 ft	282 ft		$22–$36
KLOO	K03	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp	38 ft	258 ft		$22–$36
KLOO	K04	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	38 ft	237 ft		$22–$36
KLOO	K05	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	74 ft	123 ft		$22–$36
KLOO	K06	standard electric	38 ft	50 amp	55 ft	108 ft		$22–$36
KLOO	K07	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	55 ft	148 ft		$22–$36
PAVI	P01	day use			151 ft	262 ft	2,469 ft	$20
PAVI	P02	day use			74 ft	188 ft	Pit Toilets listed	$20
PAVI	P03	day use			615 ft	177 ft	Pit Toilets listed	$20
PAVI	P04	day use			461 ft	1,270 ft	Pit Toilets listed	$20
PAVI	P05	day use		15 amp			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed	$20
REDW	Redwood Group Camp	group standard nonelectric	50 ft		461 ft	1,071 ft		$75

The agency files 5 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.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 131 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate38.63306, -97.98750

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone785-546-2294

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Riverside (KS)2.3 mi

Sylvan Park36 mi

Lucas Park36 mi

Minooka Park38 mi

French Creek49 mi

Cottonwood Point52 mi

Getting there

From the North: Take HWY 140 to HWY 141. Travel south on HWY 141, then 1/2 mile west on Venango Road; look for signs to the park. From the South: Take HWY 4 to HWY 141. Travel north on HWY 141, then 1/2 mile west on Veanago Road; look for stigns to the park.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon54°Sunny

Tonight31°Clear then Widespread Frost

Saturday61°Widespread Frost then Sunny

Saturday Night39°Clear

NWS forecast for Marquette, KS

Source: National Weather Service, ICT forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 44°F, day 70°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.

100°32°10°

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.

Measured at: KANOPOLIS LAKE, KS (USC00144178), 2 miles away and at about the same elevation

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Venango 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 129 of the 126 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 125 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.21 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 57 rated federal campgrounds in Kansas · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Marquette, KS, 9 mi WNW. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026