Carbolyn Park

We always enjoy camping at Carbonlyn. Lots of shade. It’s always well keep. Quiet! One of our favorite places to go.

This is a smaller but absolutely beautiful park. There are tons of trees and the grounds are extremely well maintained. There’s really not a bad spot in the place. The camp hosts are meticulous and friendly. Probably the best kept camping secret in Kansas.

This park is lovely! Very quiet and peaceful. The camp hosts were very friendly and welcoming.
The only issues are:
1. The dump is set up backwards which is great if you dump on your way in, but who does that? So if you dump on your way out you have to drive back through the park when you are done (unless you have a smaller rig and can do a U-turn).
2. The bathroom/shower is open air. Sooo...if it's raining, dark, or windy, you can't shower. And bugs- spiders, bees, ants, grasshoppers- in the essentially outdoor shower. Kind of creepy!
3. The 6pm check in and out time is the strangest thing ever! Only experienced this in Kansas but it makes absolutely no sense. The check in/out time needs to be changed to something more camper friendly. Waiting for someone to clear out by 6PM so you can occupy your reserved site is unacceptable. RV'ers typically like to get situated before dinner time. Not to mention while the sun is still up.

What a great place! We loved staying here, camp host were wonderful!

Mostly wonderful. Park is kept clean and good working order. The hosts are pleasant and very helpful. I really liked the shower house. I haven't ever seen one quite like it. The wall and roof are not connected and I was told that this style is typical of Kansas state parks. Maybe I wouldn't like it in cold weather, but it was August and the breeze blowing through was very pleasant.

Overall, I would have given the park 5 stars except for these two problems... -1 star for the sewer dump. There is no way to connect the water to your flush to clean out the black tank. The water tower has some weird mini bent angle piece to flush out your tank but no hose connection. Impossible. So I saw people hooking up their hoses to the potable drinking water faucet to flush their tanks. Not knowing how careful and clean everyone is, I wouldn't trust the drinking water faucet there for drinking water.

Then -1 star for this... checkout time is 6 pm. Check in time is 6 pm. People push that check out time to the limit. We had a site reserved and when we arrived the previous occupants were still there. The camp hosts were very nice and helped us find another site that worked well for us. We were set up and enjoying the park by one pm. The people in our reserved site pulled out at 5:45 pm. If not for the camp hosts helping us switch to another site, we would have been waiting six hours for our site. Check out times should be no later than two pm anywhere, in my opinion. This extremely late check out time seems to be taken advantage of by locals that don't have far to go to get home. Eleven a.m. or noon are reasonable check out times but you won't find that here.

Lovely campground and would like to go back but be aware that your site my not be available when you get there and you won't be able to flush your tank when you go dump.

A true hidden gem and a birder's paradise. Quiet and peaceful. A tiny bit of road noise, but the birds are louder. Shell and Addie are the best camp hosts ever!! So friendly and helpful. We stayed here a few times this year before we knew how nice it was. Carbolyn has become our favorite of all the COE parks around Topeka. We will plan to spend more time here next year.
Terry and Bea

great as always

A best kept secret ever! Quiet, shady and restful. Shaded sites, Very nice stay for overnight or several days. 30 mins from Topeka's shopping centers. Only 2 pull throughs, but the back-ins are adequate for big rigs!

Great stay!

I would gave 5 stars except for the restroom. Hosts were friendly as could be. Something has to be done about the potty. And why do you close it so early? I’m coming again,thank you!