Perry Lake · Kansas

Slough Creek — how to get a site when it's sold out

Overview Slough Creek Campground is situated on Perry Lake in the lush Kansas forest. As the largest and most popular recreation area at the lake, Slough Creek is an ideal destination for family camping trips. CAMPGROUND GATE POLICY--Park entrance gates will be closed from 10pm-6am on Friday and Saturday nights and the entirety of holiday weekends.

🏕️ 177 sites 🚐 Standard, Group
Yellowstone National Park (WY, USA), Grand Prismatic Spring -- 2022 -- 2514 — Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park — the park this campground calls home. Photo: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Booking Slough Creek

Sites at Slough Creek are reserved through Recreation.gov. Sites here can be reserved in advance through the official system, and they are claimed fast — cancellations then trickle back all season, unannounced, at any hour of the day or night.

Site facts

Total sites177
Site typesStandard, Group
HookupsElectric hookups at some sites
LocationPerry, KS
Book throughRecreation.gov
Official listingRecreation.gov

The cancellation play at Slough Creek

Because sites are booked months ahead, a steady share of reservations get cancelled as trips fall through. Each cancellation instantly returns that site and those nights to the official calendar — first-come, first-served, no waitlist, no announcement. Refreshing the booking page yourself, every few minutes for weeks, works in theory. In practice, the people who get these sites are the ones who hear about the opening first.

itOpened scans the Recreation.gov calendar for Slough Creek around the clock. When a site matching your dates and your vehicle opens, you get a text with a direct link to it. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell — your fee pays for monitoring, and openings are first-come, so speed is the whole game.

Other campgrounds in Perry Lake

Rock Creek (Ks)Cancellation alerts available
Old TownCancellation alerts available
LongviewCancellation alerts available
PerryCancellation alerts available

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Slough Creek; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.