West Rolling Hills
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 2 of the next 15 nights read 15:12 UTC
- A night
- $14–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 65All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
West Rolling Hills is a comfortable campground with a site layout that maximizes views of the sparkling Milford Lake. 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 and driving off-road vehicles. 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.
Facilities
This class A campground has modern conveniences like showers and flush toilets. Most of these sites have electric and water hookups, as well. The Thunderbird Marina is an easy starting point for a day on the lake, while an on-site playground provides fun for families.
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 Milford Nature Center and Fish Hatchery is nearby, below the dam and a golf course is adjacent to the nature center.
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. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 65 · 6 tent-only
- Hookups
- 53 electric, 53 water
- Longest rig
- 165 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 65
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…has modern conveniences like showers and flush toilets. Most of these sites have electric and water…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Swimming
- Night sky · 43rd darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
33 of 38 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 15:12 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$24 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 15:12 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
65 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 65 mapped sitesAll 65 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. 65 of the 65 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A-001 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 195 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-002 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 176 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-003 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 170 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-004 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 155 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-005 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 166 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-006 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 190 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-007 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 211 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-008 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 247 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-009 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 305 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-010 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 53 ft | 311 ft | $24 |
| A | A-011 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 63 ft | 353 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-012 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 431 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-013 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 472 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-014 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 510 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-015 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 557 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-016 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 578 ft | $24 | |
| A | A-017 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 63 ft | 280 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A-018 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 59 ft | 225 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A-019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 59 ft | 182 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A-020 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 56 ft | 157 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A-021 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 56 ft | 152 ft | $14 | ||
| A | A-022 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 57 ft | 160 ft | $14 | ||
| B | B-001 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | yes | 77 ft | 445 ft | $24 |
| B | B-002 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 368 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-003 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 303 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-004 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 239 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-005 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 205 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-006 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 157 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-007 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 142 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-008 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 172 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-009 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 210 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-010 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 281 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-011 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 345 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-012 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 392 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-013 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 476 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-014 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 543 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-015 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 600 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-016 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 694 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-017 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 764 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-018 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 129 ft | 646 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-019 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 544 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-020 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 471 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-021 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 424 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-022 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 387 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-023 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 332 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-024 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 66 ft | 298 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-025 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 262 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-026 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 206 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-027 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 166 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-028 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 55 ft | 158 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-029 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 26 ft | 163 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-030 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 26 ft | 141 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-031 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 144 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-032 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 175 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-033 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 180 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-034 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 193 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-035 | standard electric | 115 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 231 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-036 | standard electric | 120 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 270 ft | $24 | |
| B | B-037 | standard electric | 165 ft | 50 amp | 51 ft | 286 ft | $24 | |
| WROH | T-001 | tent only nonelectric | 205 ft | 111 ft | $14 | |||
| WROH | T-002 | tent only nonelectric | 205 ft | 237 ft | $14 | |||
| WROH | T-003 | tent only nonelectric | 215 ft | 354 ft | $14 | |||
| WROH | T-004 | tent only nonelectric | 296 ft | 398 ft | $14 | |||
| WROH | T-005 | tent only nonelectric | 296 ft | 392 ft | $14 | |||
| WROH | T-006 | tent only nonelectric | 507 ft | 252 ft | $14 |
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 65 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Outlet Park (KS)1.4 mi
East Rolling Hills Park (KS)1.4 mi
Curtis Creek2.1 mi
School Creek Camground4.4 mi
Farnum Creek5.6 mi
Timber Creek Park10 miTake I-70 to exit 290, then 5 miles to 244, then east 1/2 mile to park entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Junction City, 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
West Rolling Hills 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 →