Lake Scott State Park
Kansas State Park
Write a Review 101 West Scott Lake Drive Scott City, KS 67871 620-872-2061 Official WebsiteGPS: 38.6652, -100.9186
Overview of Lake Scott State Park
Last Price Paid: $31
Reported by TXtraveler on 10/3/2023
Longest RV Reported: 38 feet (Class A)
Reported by JenaNative on 5/6/2022
Number of Sites 150
Pad Type gravel
Reservations yes
Elevation 2,821 ft / 859 m
Tent Camping Yes
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Reviews of Lake Scott State Park 26 people have reviewed this location.
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“Peaceful”
Reviewed 10/6/2020
| Nightly rate: | $13 |
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| Days stayed: | 1 |
| Site Number: | 433 |
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Pretty much picked your spot as long as red “R” wasn’t present. 1 night stay $13.
Quiet
Bugs weren’t to bad and I was near the water.
Defiantly a place I would have liked a full day to enjoy to surroundings.
Jody would stay here again
This review is the opinion of a Campendium member and not of Campendium.com
“Decent camping by a small lake”
Reviewed 8/18/2019
| Nightly rate: | $23 |
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| Days stayed: | 1 |
| Site Number: | 002 Circle Drive |
| RV Length: | 20' (Travel Trailer) |
Overall Rating
Not too bad of a campground. You're pretty close to your neighbors which we didn't like. The lake is in walking distance, which is very small compared other state park reservoirs. There is a small swim beach and a place to rent kayaks and boats. There are hiking trails around the area. One really neat thing was that you're pretty ... more
Not too bad of a campground. You're pretty close to your neighbors which we didn't like. The lake is in walking distance, which is very small compared other state park reservoirs. There is a small swim beach and a place to rent kayaks and boats. There are hiking trails around the area. One really neat thing was that you're pretty close to "Monument Rocks" (aka. Chalk Pyramids). We highly recommend visiting that place. It is free and a really neat area. A bit odd that this place exists amongst the flat plains of Kansas.
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@letsgogeopro would stay here again
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“We Enjoyed Our Visit”
Reviewed 4/19/2019
| Nightly rate: | $25 |
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| Days stayed: | 1 |
| Site Number: | 42 |
| RV Length: | 25' (Class C) |
Overall Rating
Stayed here for just one night in early April 2019 on our way through Kansas to get back to Colorado. Lake Scott State Park is approximately 35 miles from the I-70 Oakley, KS exit. The park could use some additional signage to help you locate the campground and then your campsite. We did not see any signage in the campground to ... more
Stayed here for just one night in early April 2019 on our way through Kansas to get back to Colorado.
Lake Scott State Park is approximately 35 miles from the I-70 Oakley, KS exit.
The park could use some additional signage to help you locate the campground and then your campsite. We did not see any signage in the campground to help campers get to their reserved campsites. Murphy's Law kicked in for us and we started looking in the wrong loop of the two loops we had to choose from and therefore provided unwanted noise and dust to our fellow campers in the loop we didn't need to drive through.
From what we could gather, the campground had basic no hookup sites, water & electric sites as well as full hookup sites. We opted for a full hookup site as we wanted to dump and flush the black tank before heading back to Colorado to end our trip the next day.
Site 42 is at the end of the campground closest to the boat ramp and marina store and offered a gravel pad that was mostly level and required us to use one layer of LEGO block levelers to true up the rig.
In general, the sites appeared to be fairly close together and there was little vegetation between sites to produce any privacy.
Since we were here early in the season, there was still snow on the ground from a late season snow storm the previous day, the restrooms and marina store had not yet opened for the 2019 season. The early season stay also provided us the benefit of a mostly empty campground as there were only about 5 other campsites occupied.
The hookups worked fine. We did not experience the low voltage issue reported by another reviewer.
Verizon Wireless service was phenomenal at this location. I achieved 57 Mbps download and 16 Mbps upload using a plain old unboosted iPhone 6s.
We found the park to be very picturesque, quiet and relaxing. We would definitely stay here again, but only in the off, or shoulder, season when we would expect there to be very few other campers.
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ColoradoNittany would stay here again
This review is the opinion of a Campendium member and not of Campendium.com
“Nice park, too bad about the toxic algae!”
Reviewed 11/6/2018
| Nightly rate: | $26 |
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| Days stayed: | 5 |
| Site Number: | 4 |
| RV Length: | 38' (Class A) |
Overall Rating
We wanted to like this park more than we did, but a toxic algae bloom in the lake prevented all water activities. Even with that and it being off-season, the main campground with hookups was completely full (and noisy), so we spent our first night dry-camping in the Flatlander area (for $16/night + $3 fee) then moved up to the Lakeview... more
We wanted to like this park more than we did, but a toxic algae bloom in the lake prevented all water activities. Even with that and it being off-season, the main campground with hookups was completely full (and noisy), so we spent our first night dry-camping in the Flatlander area (for $16/night + $3 fee) then moved up to the Lakeview CG with W/E for $26/night (plus $3 fee, which was unclear if it needed to be paid for each night or once per stay) By the end of the weekend, the main CG was mostly empty again.
Other than water activities, there is a hiking trail that circles the park. It was grown up in some places and hard to find where it all connected, but most of it was navigable and was a good trek. It is also open to mountain biking and horses. There is an unadvertised 9-hole disc golf course that is playable but still being worked on (we didn't play; high grasses and fear of losing discs and encountering snakes kept us away.) There are some historical sites within the park to see, a short, steep climb up to an overlook shelter, and plenty of biking around the park's roads.
The park is close to Scott City where all the amenities are available, and a nice brand new disc golf course at the community park which we did play. It is also not far to Monument Rocks, well worth a visit. On the way to/from there is Battle Canyon, where there is a memorial and historical markers describing the battle of Punished Woman's Fork. It is possible to walk down into the small canyon around a short trail.
We saw lots of wildlife in and around the park including a young bobcat that walked into our site one morning, sandhill cranes migrating, ornate box turtle, whipsnake, turkeys, deer, and one tarantula (yes, there are tarantulas in Kansas!)
dates of stay: 9/29 - 10/3 2018
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This review is the opinion of a Campendium member and not of Campendium.com
Reviewed 7/7/2018
| Nightly rate: | $28 |
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| Days stayed: | 6 |
| Site Number: | LV 6 |
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Nasty restrooms. Very low voltage, unuseable.
Nice lake, large grass sites.
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This review is the opinion of a Campendium member and not of Campendium.com
“Would go back in a hearbeat.”
Reviewed 4/27/2018
| Nightly rate: | $21 |
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| Days stayed: | 5 |
| Site Number: | LV2 |
| RV Length: | 21' |
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Our first venture out in our new camper, our Micro Minnie Winnebago. The weather was cold and rainy the 1st two days but got better as the week went on and the day we left it was sunny and 70. The lake is not real big but it's beautiful. We stayed at LakeView 2 site and had water and 30 amp electric. There is a dump station near fr... more
Our first venture out in our new camper, our Micro Minnie Winnebago. The weather was cold and rainy the 1st two days but got better as the week went on and the day we left it was sunny and 70. The lake is not real big but it's beautiful. We stayed at LakeView 2 site and had water and 30 amp electric. There is a dump station near front of park. There are kayaks for rent at the boathouse.
When you think of western Kansas you think of flat for as long as the eye can see. That's what it's like driving there but then you turn off and there are cliffs and canyons. We went to see the Chalk Pyramids which were interesting. Very old structures, a geologists dream. We also went to Battle Canyon, where the interesting story of the last Indian stand happened, The Battle at Punished Woman's Fork. There is a walking (bicycles and horses, too) trail around the lake. Very nice, scenery is awesome.
We went into Scott City a couple of times. It's only 8 miles away so if you don't want to cook or need some supplies, you can find them there.
We have T Mobile and didn't have a signal nor a TV signal, could get a couple of radio stations. We took some movies and watched those.
Camptown Races would stay here again
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Lake Scott State Park - Let’s Go Geo Pro
Lake Scott State Park This park has a pretty small lake compared to other state parks we have visited, but regardless it’s still pretty. Our campsite is close to lake, about 30 yards away....
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Amenities
Hookups
- 50 Amp
- 30 Amp
- 20 Amp
- water
- dry camping
- sewer
- Full Hookups
Recreation
- fishing
- picnic area
- playground
- recreation trail
- swimming beach
- water access
Site Amenities
- big rig
- fire ring
- picnic table
- pull thru
Facilities
- cabins
- restrooms: flush
- showers
- trash
Pets
- pets
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