Outlet (pomona Lake)

Outlet Campground is located along 110 Mile Creek in eastern Kansas at Pomona Lake. The scenic park appeals to family campers, sportsmen and water sport enthusiasts, and the 4,000-acre reservoir offers excellent fishing and boating. Picnicking and hunting are favorite activities here as well. Three nearby trails meander around Pomona Lake. Deer Creek Nature Trail and Witches' Broom Trail are short trails for hikers, while the Black Hawk Trail offers a 33 mile loop with several trailheads and is a popular hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking path. Outlet Campground offers 34 campsites and two group day-use picnic shelters, all of which have electric and water hookups. Other amenities include flush and vault toilets, a shower building, playground, nature trail, dump station, laundry facilities and a boat ramp. A visitor center a short distance away provides educational displays about the lake and its environment, and the local sheriff's department and Corps of Engineers rangers patrol the park during the recreation season. Pomona Lake sits among the rolling hills, mixed grasslands, croplands and forests of eastern Kansas. Wildlife and numerous species of birds can be observed at this secluded, heavily shaded campground: bald eagles, white-tailed deer, Canada geese, wild turkey, crappie, walleye and channel catfish. Numerous parks lie on the lake's banks with more boating, fishing, swimming, hunting and hiking, and the town of Lyndon is less than 10 miles away with limited restaurants and shops, 22 historical sites and the smallest Carnegie library still in use.