About this park
Tuttle Creek State Park sits along Kansas's second-largest reservoir near Manhattan, home to Kansas State University, giving the park a steady stream of student and community visitors alongside regional tourists. The 1,200-acre park is divided into four distinct units, each with its own character and facilities. A swimming beach serves the park's more casual day-use visitors, while eleven log cabins provide rustic overnight lodging along the shoreline. The Fancy Creek area is particularly notable among mountain bikers, offering some of the most technically challenging singletrack trail terrain found anywhere in the Kansas state park system. Given its location just north of Manhattan, Tuttle Creek functions as both a major recreational lake for the surrounding community and a specialized mountain-biking destination that draws riders from well beyond the immediate region, making it one of the more athletically oriented parks among Kansas's reservoir-based state parks.
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- Tuttle Creek Cove (2.5 mi, reservable)
- Stockdale (4.7 mi, reservable)
- Farnum Creek (17.8 mi, reservable)