Whitehall Bay
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 14 of the next 14 nights read 16:24 UTC
- A night
- $13–$21Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Whitehall Bay Campground is located on the shores of Fall River Lake in Greenwood County, Kansas. Opportunities for outdoor family fun and recreation include swimming, boating, water skiing, camping, picnicking and sightseeing. Keep reading
Recreation
For birdwatchers and nature lovers, there is an 8,000 acre Fall River wildlife area, where prairie chickens, waterfowl, rabbits, wild turkeys, white tail deer, doves and quail are commonly seen. Over 400 species of birds are protected in this area. Hiking and biking opportunities near Fredonia Bay include the 1.5-mile Casner Creek Trail, which meanders through the forest, opening onto a breathtaking display of wildflowers during spring and summer months, or the 1-mile Turkey Run Trail, which leads visitors through a wooded ravine, over a stream and into a tall grass prairie with an impressive view of the lake.
Facilities
This campground contains four group sites with electric hookups, and 20 family sites with electric. Additional amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, showers, a playground, beach, boat ramp and a dump station.
Natural Features
Rolling prairies and tree-dotted valleys sheltered by limestone-capped ridges surround Fall Lake, which stretches up the picturesque Fall River for 15 miles. This scenic area has a wealth of native wildlife and vegetation.
Nearby Attractions
Fall River State Park is nearby, offering great hiking, fishing and birding along the river. Canoeing is also a popular activity in the park.
What the agency tells you
Please remember all ATVs and golf carts must be street legal with tags and lights; all motorized vehicles and drivers must be licensed
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
- 30 · 4 group
- Hookups
- 29 electric, 15 water, 11 sewer
- Longest rig
- 93 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…electric. Additional amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, showers, a playground, beach, boat…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Additional amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, showers, a playground, beach, boat ramp and a dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, showers, a playground, beach, boat ramp and a dump…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 6th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 3
43 of 54 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:24 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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.
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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 · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $13–$21 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 16:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 28 mapped sitesAll 30 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. 30 of the 30 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| WHITEHALL BAY | 001 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 205 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 002 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 260 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 003 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 165 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 004 | standard electric | 63 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 255 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 005 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 181 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 006 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 201 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 007 | standard electric | 77 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 271 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 008 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 70 ft | 202 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 009 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 204 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 010 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 131 ft | 335 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 011 | standard electric | 92 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 209 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 012 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 165 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 013 | standard electric | 68 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 137 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 014 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 117 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 015 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 102 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 016 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | $17–$21 | |||
| WHITEHALL BAY | 017 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 300 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 018 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 329 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 019 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 307 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 020 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 257 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 021 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | $13 | ||||
| WHITEHALL BAY | 022 | standard electric | 15/30/50 amp | yes | 168 ft | 278 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 023 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | 176 ft | 70 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 026 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 124 ft | 208 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 027 | standard electric | 93 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 90 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | 028 | standard electric | 70 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 88 ft | $17–$21 | |
| WHITEHALL BAY | GS1 | group standard electric | 30 amp | 168 ft | 64 ft | $50–$100 | ||
| WHITEHALL BAY | GS2 | group standard electric | 30 amp | 108 ft | 103 ft | $50–$100 | ||
| WHITEHALL BAY | GS3 | group standard electric | 30 amp | 208 ft | 144 ft | $50–$100 | ||
| WHITEHALL BAY | GS4 | group standard electric | 30 amp | 514 ft | 459 ft | $50–$100 |
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.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Damsite - Fall River Lake1.5 mi
Card Creek31 mi
Outlet Channel31 mi
Riverside West42 mi
Riverside East43 mi
Timber Hill Park43 miFrom US HWY 400, turn left (north) at mile marker 344 (Z 50 Rd.) 0.09, turn right (east) 2.8 miles across dam, turn left (north) 0.8 miles, turn left (west), 0.7 miles, turn right (north) 1.7 miles to low water crossing, straight (north) 0.1 miles, west 0.4 miles, turn left (south) 1.1 miles to entrance to park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fall River, KS
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 71°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
Whitehall Bay is in Kansas’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Ron Estes (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →