Cheney State Park — Attraction in Kansas

It is a large park with a lake and 681 campsites, many with electricity. It has flush toilets and free showers. Unfortunately, the showers offered little privacy and had few places to put your clothes so they would not get wet. The campsites were generally level and clean. We were there in mid-October 2024. To our surprise, there must have been over 10,000 seagulls filling the sky and lake. It was a sight to behold and totally unexpected in the middle of Kansas. We learned later that some types of seagulls migrate from the north and this accounted for the large flocks we witnessed.

Overall, the park signage was poor and we kept getting lost. The campgrounds were shaded and nicely spread out. The biggest issue we had was the location of the bathrooms, which were exceptionally far from most of the campsites for convenient use. We do not feel guests should have to walk many hundreds of yards to use the facilities. There did not appear to be drinking water access in the campground except at the restrooms. When we were there, there was no camp host and thus the restrooms were not very clean. My wife reported the women’s side of the restroom was filthy and had no toilet paper. Nevertheless, we found the campgrounds to be otherwise reasonable with the major problems being the poorly situated restrooms and overall cleanliness. We actually observed some of the campers were driving to the bathrooms, which is absurd. Generally, we would rate this park 3 stars until there are some infrastructure improvements made to better locate the restrooms to a more central location. Showers could be kept where they are but some flush toilets need to be placed in the middle of the campsites and not at the far end. Based on our experience, we do not plan to return to Cheney State...

I am elderly and disabled and my son just got in remission for cancer after fighting 3 years and almost dying several times. We like to go for drives. One of our favorite drives was driving to Cheney Lake just to look at the water. I loved to go to the pier and watch the boats. We'd stay for about an hour. Now we can no longer do this. They charge just to drive in and look at the lake. I think this is wrong. We don't use the facilities. We don't camp there. We just want to see the lake. We don't have a lot of money. He still can't work. We live on my social security. Cheney Lake has taken away one of the simple joys I had in my life. Thank you Cheney for being a horrible place where people cannot even just take a drive to add a tiny little bit of light into their life to enjoy a brief moment of enjoying God's green Earth. I am ashamed of Kansas and their lake of love and understanding. It's been replaced with greed and people with...

We rented 2 campsites together and they kept giving one of them away to other people. The camp cabin people that watch over us said it was a mistake and being a holiday trying to get anyone to answer the phone was impossible. When I finally did reach the office they said that it was ours and there was nothing they could do about them putting others on it because we should have called sooner. So we paid for July 2nd through the 8th and left on the night of the 6th and didn't get to use the campsite one time even though we paid the $10 a night for it. So beware because someone is double dipping on the payments. Better make sure you get to your site as soon as possible or you might pay for it and not get to use it. The lady on the phone for Cheney lake was kinda of rude and just put me off immediately. Nothing I can do. Yes there is. Refund my money for a site that kept getting rented to others when I already...