Wolf Creek (KS)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14–$22Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 56All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wolf Creek Campground is located a few miles west of Pomona Dam Road on the north side of the Pomona Lake in eastern Kansas. The scenic park appeals to family campers, sportsmen and water sport enthusiasts. The reservoir covers 4,000 acres and offers excellent fishing and boating opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, boating, picnicking and hunting are favorite activities on and around Pomona Lake. The lake's fish and wildlife resources provide ample opportunities for sportsmen and women. Three nearby trails meander around Pomona Lake, providing visitors with hiking and nature study opportunities. Deer Creek Nature Trail and Witches' Broom Trail are short trails for hikers. The Black Hawk Trail offers a 33 mile loop with several trailheads and is a popular hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking path.
Facilities
Wolf Creek Campground offers 78 family campsites, 45 of which have hookups; one large group campsite also has hookups. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, ball field, and dump station. A boat ramp and marina are nearby, as are numerous bank-fishing areas. The local sheriff's department and Corps of Engineers rangers patrol the park during the recreation season. A visitor center is located a short distance from the park and provides educational displays about the lake and its environment.
Natural Features
Pomona Lake is situated among the rolling hills, mixed grasslands, croplands and forests of eastern Kansas. Wildlife and numerous species of birds can be observed at this secluded, heavily shaded campground. Bald eagles, white-tailed deer, Canada geese, wild turkey, crappie, walleye, channel catfish and other wildlife can be found here.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous parks lie on the banks of Pomona Lake, offering additional boating, fishing, swimming, hunting, and hiking opportunities. The town of Lyndon, Kansas is less than 10 miles away, with limited restaurants and shops. This small town is home to 22 historical sites and the smallest Carnegie library still in use.
What the agency tells you
Visitors are expected to be aware of park general rules
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
- 56 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 40 electric, 40 water
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, ball field, and…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, ball field, and dump station.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Disc Golf
- Night sky · 40th darkest of 57 in KS
- Bortle 4
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.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$22 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 Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
56 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 56 mapped sitesAll 56 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 56 of the 56 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. 55 of the 56 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | A01 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | yes | 51 ft | 390 ft | 352 ft | $22 |
| A | A02 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 51 ft | 430 ft | 340 ft | $22 | |
| A | A03 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 57 ft | 502 ft | 330 ft | $22 | |
| A | A04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 43 ft | 548 ft | 340 ft | $22 | |
| A | A05 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 35 ft | 584 ft | 351 ft | $22 | |
| A | A06 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 35 ft | 614 ft | 363 ft | $22 | |
| A | A07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 50 ft | 655 ft | 390 ft | $22 | |
| A | A08 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 64 ft | 787 ft | 370 ft | $22 | |
| A | A09 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 57 ft | 771 ft | 357 ft | $22 | |
| A | A10 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 48 ft | 747 ft | 341 ft | $22 | |
| A | A11 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 48 ft | 730 ft | 334 ft | $22 | |
| A | A12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 55 ft | 715 ft | 337 ft | $22 | |
| A | A13 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 70 ft | 713 ft | 362 ft | $22 | |
| A | A14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 76 ft | 708 ft | 393 ft | $22 | |
| A | A15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 739 ft | 482 ft | $22 | |
| A | A16 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 46 ft | 652 ft | 415 ft | $22 | |
| A | A17 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 46 ft | 658 ft | 390 ft | $22 | |
| A | A18 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 71 ft | 581 ft | 361 ft | $22 | |
| A | A19 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 76 ft | 506 ft | 326 ft | $22 | |
| A | A20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 72 ft | 428 ft | 291 ft | $22 | |
| A | A21 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30/50 amp | 72 ft | 468 ft | 249 ft | $22 | |
| A | A22 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30/50 amp | 69 ft | 359 ft | 245 ft | $22 | |
| A | A23 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 69 ft | 393 ft | 189 ft | $22 | |
| A | A24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 71 ft | 278 ft | 201 ft | $22 | |
| A | A25 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/50 amp | 71 ft | 261 ft | 166 ft | $22 | |
| A | A26 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 73 ft | 339 ft | 79 ft | $22 | |
| A | A27 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 60 ft | 363 ft | 101 ft | $22 | |
| A | A28 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30/50 amp | 46 ft | 414 ft | 126 ft | $22 | |
| A | A29 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 46 ft | 449 ft | 163 ft | $22 | |
| A | A30 | rv electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 58 ft | 554 ft | 240 ft | ||
| A | A31 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30/50 amp | 50 ft | 497 ft | 199 ft | $22 | |
| A | A32 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30/50 amp | 61 ft | 575 ft | 294 ft | $22 | |
| C | C01 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 85 ft | 379 ft | 464 ft | $14 | ||
| C | C02 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 346 ft | 543 ft | $14 | |||
| C | C03 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 57 ft | 304 ft | 585 ft | $14 | ||
| C | C04 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 57 ft | 271 ft | 623 ft | $14 | ||
| C | C05 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 47 ft | 239 ft | 657 ft | $14 | ||
| C | C06 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 47 ft | 208 ft | 681 ft | $14 | ||
| C | C07 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 62 ft | 180 ft | 701 ft | $14 | ||
| D | D01 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 136 ft | 301 ft | 418 ft | $22 | |
| D | D02 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 365 ft | 481 ft | $22 | |
| D | D03 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 298 ft | 549 ft | $22 | |
| D | D04 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 134 ft | 376 ft | 406 ft | $22 | |
| D | D05 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 117 ft | 287 ft | 441 ft | $22 | |
| D | D06 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 385 ft | 329 ft | $22 | |
| D | D07 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 303 ft | 404 ft | $22 | |
| E | E01 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 123 ft | 249 ft | 341 ft | $14 | ||
| E | E02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 293 ft | 353 ft | $14 | ||
| E | E03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 314 ft | 362 ft | $14 | ||
| E | E04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 42 ft | 343 ft | 400 ft | $14 | ||
| E | E05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 39 ft | 356 ft | 426 ft | $14 | ||
| E | E06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 39 ft | 359 ft | 452 ft | $14 | ||
| E | E07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 42 ft | 368 ft | 480 ft | $14 | ||
| E | E08 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 54 ft | 376 ft | 515 ft | $14 | ||
| E | E09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 54 ft | 335 ft | 546 ft | $14 | ||
| WCRE | WC-GRO | group standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 529 ft | 355 ft | 750 ft | $175 |
25 of 56 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Michigan Valley1.3 mi
Outlet (Pomona Lake)2.2 mi
Carbolyn Park6.0 mi
Outlet(Melvern)14 mi
Coeur D'alene15 mi
Arrow Rock17 miFrom US 75 and K-268 junction proceed east on K-268 for 7 miles to Pomona Dam Road; turn north and proceed 2.5 miles across the dam. After crossing the dam, turn west on Wolf Creek Pkwy and remain on this road for 1.2 miles to the park entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Vassar, KS
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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
Wolf Creek (KS) 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 →