Warning

General

Attention all campers, the laundry facilities are permanently closed to all park guests.

aerial view of Outlet Campground
Outlet Park swimming beach
Trail head playground in Outlet Campground
B-Loop shower house in Outlet campground
Entrance sign to Outlet Park

About Outlet(Melvern)

Outlet Campground is situated below the Melvern Lake Dam on the eastern edge of the Flint Hills of Kansas. Visitors enjoy the area's wide range of recreational activities, including boating, fishing, hiking and hunting. Find a virtual tour of Melvern Lake at http://www.photographyoptions.net/images/melvern/tour.html

Available sites

135 total sites

Seasonal information

2026 (Current year)

2026 Season availability

Current season
Upcoming seasons
Past seasons
Closed periods
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Currently open - Apr 1 to Oct 30

Campground Amenities

RV Utilities and Hookups

RV Utilities and Hookups

  • Dump station on site
Water Access

Water Access

  • Beach Access
Missing information?

Rates, Sites & Availability

Select check-in and check-out dates to see real-time availability for each site.

135 Sites Available

Site
Price
🚐 001, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 002, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 003, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 004, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 005, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 011GC, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 012GC, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 017, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 018, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 019, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 020, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 021, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 022, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 023, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 024, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 025, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 026, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 027, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 028GC, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 029GC, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 034, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 035, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 036, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 037, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 038, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 039, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 040GC, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 043, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 044, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 045, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 046, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 047, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 048, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 049, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 050, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 051, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 052, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 053, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 054, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 055, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 056, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 057, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 058, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 059, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 060, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 061, Loop: A-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 062, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 063, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 064, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 065, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 066, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 067, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 068, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 069, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 070, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 071, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 072, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 073, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 074, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 075, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 076, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 077, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 078, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 079, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 080, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 081, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 082, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 083, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 084, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 085, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 086, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 087, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 088, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 089, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 090, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 091, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 092, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 093, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 094, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 095, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 096, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 097, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 098, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 099, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 100, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 101, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 102, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 103, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 104, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 105, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 106, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 107, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 108, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 109, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 110, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 111, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 112, Loop: B-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 113, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 114, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 115, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 116, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 117, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 118, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 119, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 120, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 121, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 122, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 123, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 124, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 125, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 126, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 127, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 128, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 129, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 130, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 131, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 132, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 133, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 134, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 135, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 136, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 137, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 138, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 139, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 140, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 141, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 142, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 143, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 144, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 145, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 146, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 147, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 148, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 149, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved
🚐 150, Loop: C-LO RV
Pet Friendly · 50 amp · Paved

Reviews (1360)

What Guests Are Saying

Melvern Outlet is a beautifully maintained campground known for its clean facilities, friendly staff, and peaceful atmosphere. Visitors enjoy the spacious sites, walking trails, and various activities like fishing and hiking, making it a family-friendly destination. However, some campers expressed disappointment over the closure of laundry facilities and maintenance issues, yet many plan to return for future visits.

Review Summary

4.5
1360 reviews
5
64.9%
882
4
24.5%
333
3
7.6%
104
2
2.1%
29
1
0.9%
12

Jeffery B

Verified

June 10, 2025 • Stayed at: 080, Loop: B-LO

5

Excellent shaded sites. Clean bathrooms. A surprisingly nice park to camp at with hiking trails. We stayed at outlet park and great experience.

Rod T

Verified

June 12, 2025 • Stayed at: 144, Loop: C-LO

5

What a great park. Lots of trees, nice paths and the maintenance people Curtis and Brenda are the greatest care takers ever. They go out of their way to help people and are so very friendly My only complaint is that the lots are hard to get for more than three days because of people reserving 2 and 4 weeks at a time the later cancel all but the week ends. The 2 weeks a month are not enforced as some use two different emails to log almost full time occupancy. We love the place and want to go several time this summer but it is a challenge trying to get around these 2 unfair practices of others. I am referring to section C with these comments.

Quinn C

Verified

June 12, 2025 • Stayed at: 115, Loop: C-LO

5

Beautiful lake location. Caught several fish right by our trailer.

Rod T

Verified

June 12, 2025 • Stayed at: 144, Loop: C-LO

5

What a great park. Lots of trees, nice paths and the maintenance people Curtis and Brenda are the greatest care takers ever. They go out of their way to help people and are so very friendly My only complaint is that the lots are hard to get for more than three days because of people reserving 2 and 4 weeks at a time the later cancel all but the week ends. The 2 weeks a month are not enforced as some use two different emails to log almost full time occupancy. We love the place and want to go several time this summer but it is a challenge trying to get around these 2 unfair practices of others. I am referring to section C with these comments.

Quinn C

Verified

June 12, 2025 • Stayed at: 115, Loop: C-LO

5

Beautiful lake location. Caught several fish right by our trailer.

Mary S

Verified

June 13, 2025 • Stayed at: 124, Loop: C-LO

5

Love full hookup and maintenance of park

Mary S

Verified

June 13, 2025 • Stayed at: 124, Loop: C-LO

5

Love full hookup and maintenance of park

Teresa D

Verified

June 15, 2025 • Stayed at: 120, Loop: C-LO

5

Outlet Park at Melvern is our favorite local lake/campground. We took our grandkids for the second time. It's the perfect place for kids. Lots of close bike/walking trails that aren't miles long. Some wooded paths and some through open areas, some paved and some gravel. One beautiful trail runs along a little peaceful, small river which is fed by the outlet from the lake. Two playgrounds, a beach, and the lake marina where we rented a pontoon boat and a big float to pull behind.

We have stayed at the campground many times. It is beautiful and well maintained. One of the best I've seen. Staff are all friendly and frequently patrol. We've never had trouble with noise or partiers. People are polite and friendly.
Our favorite loop is C. Lots of shade, and nice shower house/bathroom. Close access to trails and there is a trail that runs all along the outlet lake easily accessible from any sight. I'd give Melvern 10 stars if I could!

John S

Verified

June 15, 2025 • Stayed at: 149, Loop: C-LO

1

We love camping at this campground and have camped here for years. However, on our last trip our neighbors kept their dog off leash most of the weekend. Although the dog stayed in their campsite most of the time, the last morning we were there we were outside cooking breakfast with our dog tethered in our campsite when their dog wandered into our campsite. Our dog who we always keep leashed became upset and started growling which prompted the neighbors’ dog to attack our dog. It was horrible! Luckily we were able to get the dogs apart, and our dog will be all right. We would like to recommend that some large signage be put up where all campers can see it about keeping dogs leashed or in campers at all times. Campers claim that they don’t always know this rule, and signage clearly posted would assure that everyone would know the rule and hopefully incidents like this wouldn’t happen again.

Teresa D

Verified

June 15, 2025 • Stayed at: 120, Loop: C-LO

5

Outlet Park at Melvern is our favorite local lake/campground. We took our grandkids for the second time. It's the perfect place for kids. Lots of close bike/walking trails that aren't miles long. Some wooded paths and some through open areas, some paved and some gravel. One beautiful trail runs along a little peaceful, small river which is fed by the outlet from the lake. Two playgrounds, a beach, and the lake marina where we rented a pontoon boat and a big float to pull behind.

We have stayed at the campground many times. It is beautiful and well maintained. One of the best I've seen. Staff are all friendly and frequently patrol. We've never had trouble with noise or partiers. People are polite and friendly.
Our favorite loop is C. Lots of shade, and nice shower house/bathroom. Close access to trails and there is a trail that runs all along the outlet lake easily accessible from any sight. I'd give Melvern 10 stars if I could!

Location & Directions for Outlet(Melvern)

30442 River Pond Parkway, Melvern, KS 66510 United States

Elevation: 299 ft

Getting There

From US-75, take the Melvern exit. Turn west onto Melvern Lake Parkway and continue 1/4 mi to the cut-off road, then another 1/4-mile west to River Pond Parkway and follow into the campground.

Nearest town

Melvern, KS - 4.2 mi

About 7 min to downtown

Highway access

The campground is accessible via US-75, with the Melvern exit providing direct access to Melvern Lake Parkway.

Policies & Rules

General

  • Attention all campers, the laundry facilities are permanently closed to all park guests.
  • Special creel and length limits are enforced on the park fishing pond
  • Failure to be on site within 24 hours of your reservation status.
  • A poilicy of the Corps of Engineers is to require all campers, including camping units, that camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive-day period is prohibited.
  • Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site within a fire ring. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
  • Call the Melvern Lake Project Office at 785-549-3318 with additional questions
  • Melvern Lake virtual tour available at: http://www.photographyoptions.net/images/melvern/tour.html
  • Reminder that campsites in B-loop do not have firerings, if you would like to bring your own make sure it is off the ground.

Warnings & Advisories

Warning

General

Attention all campers, the laundry facilities are permanently closed to all park guests.

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Last updated: October 21, 2026

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