Cheney State Park, West Shore

Stayed for a week while visiting in Wichita area. 40 min drive but winter season COE closer are closed. Nice spot with free WiFi and plenty of space and trails for walking my three pups. It is gravel but very level. Rangers patrol. Limited spaces open this time of year so just call office and they’ll guide you to your options. 

Camp sites very tight. Main issue was several campers left RV gray tank valves open to ground. Water flowed wherever. Ask LE if it was legal. Told no but nothing changed. One group played baseball right behind RVs (within25-30ft). Camp host quickly drove by with no response.  May have just been this weekend but would have reservations about staying again. 

Great $23 plus reserve America fee of $2.75 water and electric. No daily park entrance fee.  Huge reservoir-boating, swimming, fishing, biking. Would stay again. Level gravel. Picnic table and fire ring. 

This park is huge. The one side is all tents and primitive RV spots. I don’t not suggest that side. The other side for RVs seems newer and more maintained. Also has more bathrooms and playground for kids. The lake is very big and a dark brown. The lake is also not that deep. They have about five swim beaches. The camping spots have power and water and are spacious. The main down side to this park is that it is very windy. It could have been the weekend that we were there, but I have the feeling it is always windy due to the size of the lake. This does need the bugs down. They have a few hiking trials that are a good length and a few bike trails.    

We stayed a weekend in our travel trailer on the West Shore park, north loop, site 078. Clean and mowed grass spots, plenty of space between rv's, hosts did a nice job keeping the place clean. Less than a mile away was a fairly new playground and the sailing club on north end of park is worh the walk to enjoy.

Lake view sites are very close together. Have to share a fire pit with your neighbor and picnic table. I was told Lake view is the worst rv sites on the lake. The site served it's purpose but we will not being going back. Kansas has many other parks in the state that are much nicer.

We stayed at the west campground. Clean site and friendly hosts. The RV sites are huge and most are all grass. We are used to dirt, gravel, or concrete pads so the all grass was nice to have.  Only stayed for one night so this review is just for the RV site. 

We had a blast spending the summers out at this lake for four seasons. My kids loved jet skiing in the lake and cooking out doors.