Sand Hills State Park — Attraction in Kansas

We stayed here a couple of nights in early June then stayed one night in mid June when we passed through again. If the hosts are off duty, self check-in is done. Because I had not been there before, self check-in was a little confusing the first time. Probably because we had no reservation and the self check-in form was only for one night. We used it and paid for two nights. There were no problems, but with the host not there to check us in we risked that someone could have reserved our site for the second night. That didn't happen. We stayed at one of the sites with a large concrete pad. Our concrete pad was level. All sites with a concrete pad also had a concrete patio area with a BBQ grill, table and fire ring. With our 28 foot trailer on the pad, there was plenty of room for our crew cab pickup truck to sit in front of the trailer. The concrete sites would get a 10 rating. The gravel sites probably a 9 rating only because the camp host has no help and is also doing maintenance the best he can. (It's a big place for one person) There were a few weeds. The ground is mostly sand (it is sand hills), so don’t expect to see a plush green grass lawn at this location. It probably cannot happen. There is a small lake. It is new and we did not fish in it. Oh, if you have horses there are special sites for you. Overall, we were very pleased. Setup can't get easier than it was on the concrete pad. We stopped here again on 6/17/2019 and the campground hosts were present. They were very pleasant. If you want to camp near Hutchinson, this is the...

The area was lovely, and my children and I had stopped on a 4 hour trip to get out and stretch our legs. I opened my car door and immediately this random woman (who did not identify herself as an employee until after I explicitly asked her if she was) began approaching me before I even had made it out of my car. She began asking "are you staying here" i was very caught off guard and had said "We're planning on just walking around for a bit" and she begins looking into my car windows and says "Who's we? Do you have a dog?" I'm very uncomfortable at this point as I'm travelling alone with my kids. And I got a little snippy and asked "Is that your business?" And she was clearly iritated that I was not answering her. I asked if she was an employee (She had no name tag, nothing about her marking her as a state park employee at all) and she was very rude with her yes and then saying that people frequently sit out there for her....but again the questions and looking into my car windows was very out of line. Beautiful area but made me extremely uncomfortable right...

We are trying to hit up all the KS state parks and so far this was the least enjoyable one. The campground area is just a circular parking lot which allows the never ending KS wind to be brutal. Some trees could really help this out. There is supposed to be a fishing lake in the middle of the camp area, but the lake was completely dry so there is no fishing available. Was very disappointed to learn that the restrooms were closed even though the website said they were available, so I would not recommend this to any tent campers. The trails are wide and easy to walk on. They intersect on each other and there are different vegetations from prairie to woodlands. Stay on the trails for pups safety as there are quite a few burrs and cacti along the edges...