Coeur D'Alene

Coeur d'Alene Campground is situated on Melvern Lake on the eastern edge of the Flint Hills of Kansas. Visitors come for the area's wide range of recreational activities, including boating, fishing, hiking and hunting. Melvern Lake impounds nearly 7,000 acres of water on the upper reaches of the Marais des Cygnes River Valley. Boating and swimming are popular activities on the lake, and anglers fish for walleye, crappie, channel and flathead catfish, black bass, white bass, striped and smallmouth bass. The 18,000 acres of land surrounding Melvern Lake provide plentiful hiking and hunting opportunities, and hunters may find deer, quail, turkeys, ducks, rabbits and squirrels throughout the area. Two trails join the campground: the Breakwater Trail and the 4-mile Tall Grass Heritage Trail, which connects Coeur d'Alene Campground to Arrow Rock Campground. The campground offers 47 campsites, 33 of which have electric hookups. Site 1 is an accessible site with 50-amp electric, water and sewer hookups. Sites 2–8, 34–43, 50 and 55 have 30-amp electric with water hookups, and sites 44–49, 51–54 and 56–60 are basic 30-amp electric. Two group day-use picnic shelters with electric hookups are available as well, and several family picnic sites can be used on a first come, first served basis. Amenities include flush and vault toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A boat ramp, dock, marina and fish cleaning station are located on site, as are an overlook, two nature trails, three playgrounds and a swim beach. The Flint Hills represent America's last expanse of intact tallgrass prairie, made up mainly of big bluestem, switchgrass and Indian grass. The rolling hills on the south side of the lake are somewhat wooded, but trees and shade are sparse within the campground.