Camping Excitement in Kansas

We arrived in Junction City, Kansas, on June 11 planning to stay a week. On the way we arranged a tour of Peterson Industries in Smith Center, Kansas, for next week. Looking ahead, we reserved a campsite near Madison, Wisconsin, for 11 nights starting 7/11. We'll be there to visit relatives.

We're in Junction City to at the New Horizons factory to check out the factory that builds New Horizons fifth-wheel trailers. New Horizons gets the best ratings of all the fifth-wheel brands rated by the RV Consumer Group. If we ever buy another fifth-wheel, New Horizons is one of the brand we would consider. On our first stop at the factory, we took a look at some tables that come with certain New Horizons models. These are tables that look good to us in pictures we've seen. At the factory, though, it was clear that all the tables are too large and heavy for our trailer. So we won't be buying any tables here. We'll go back to the factory on Monday for a tour of the production facility.

We set up camp in West Rolling Hills campground, a Corps of Engineers campground on Lake Milford north of Junction City. When we arrived at the camp we found a sign at the office telling new arrivals to pick a campsite, settle in, and come back to the office after 5pm to register. We set up our trailer in site 36, on a point of land jutting out into the lake. When we went to the office at five o'clock, the manager would only rent a site to us for 1 night because of the possibility of flooding. Rising water could cover the road into the part of the campground we're in. He might have to move us to another site if there rain, and thundershowers were forecast for that night.













Our first campsite was right next to the lake.

Our first priority the next morning was check out other campsites. We found a nice spot on the other side of the campground and moved the trailer. Later in the day we found the road to our first campsite barricaded to keep everyone out. We got some pictures that explain why that was necessary.


































Our second campsite was high enough to stay dry. It gave us some great views of Kansas sunsets.