Kansas wildlife areas: every area with its own page

110 KDWP wildlife areas and state fishing lake areas open to hunting have a page here, 445,570 mapped acres in all. The largest are Cimarron National Grassland, Perry Wildlife Area, Milford Wildlife Area, Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area and Tuttle Creek Wildlife Area.

Data updated October 2026. Areas: KDWP GIS and the Fall 2026-Spring 2027 regulations summary.

Map of Kansas with the 110 wildlife areas that have a FilledTag page, sized by acres, over public land and deer unit lines — Each dot is an area with a page; bigger dots are bigger areas. Dashed lines are deer units.

Which wildlife areas are in Kansas?

Area	Mapped acres	County	Deer unit	Dove fields, 2026
Atchison State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	204	Atchison	Unit 10
Barber State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	186	Barber	Unit 16
Benedictine Bottoms Wildlife Area	2,012	Atchison	Unit 10	1
Big Hill Wildlife Area	1,311	Labette	Unit 11
Binger Wildlife Area	159	Rice	Unit 5
Blue Valley Wildlife Area	495	Pottawatomie	Unit 9
Bolton Wildlife Area	641	Wabaunsee	Unit 9	2
Bourbon State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	248	Bourbon	Unit 11
Brown State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	135	Brown	Unit 10
Brzon Wildlife Area	303	Republic	Unit 7
Buck Creek Wildlife Area	854	Jefferson	Unit 10
Buffalo Ranch Wildlife Area	1,088	Montgomery	Unit 12	1
Butler State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	350	Butler	Unit 14
Byron Walker Wildlife Area	5,158	Kingman	Unit 15
Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area	12,810	Trego	Unit 2 and Unit 4	6
Chase State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	386	Chase	Unit 14
Cheney Wildlife Area	5,463	Reno	Unit 15	1
Cherokee Lowlands Wildlife Area	2,549	Cherokee and Labette	Unit 11	1
Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area	18,948	Barton	Unit 5
Cimarron National Grassland	102,347	Morton	Unit 18
Clark State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	1,014	Clark	Unit 16
Clinton Wildlife Area	9,737	Douglas and Shawnee	Unit 10	7
Concannon State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	752	Finney	Unit 17
Copan Wildlife Area	2,182	Montgomery and Chautauqua	Unit 12
Cottonwood Flats Wildlife Area	95	Hamilton	Unit 17
Council Grove Wildlife Area	2,129	Morris	Unit 14	5
Cowley State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	136	Cowley	Unit 13
Dalbey Bottoms Wildlife Area	1,610	Atchison	Unit 10	1
Douglas State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	597	Douglas	Unit 10
Dove Flats Wildlife Area	203	Montgomery	Unit 12	1
Duck Creek Wildlife Area	251	Montgomery	Unit 12
El Dorado Wildlife Area	3,992	Butler	Unit 14	2
Elk City Wildlife Area	15,174	Montgomery	Unit 12	3
Elwood Wildlife Area	1,354	Doniphan	Unit 10	1
Fall River Wildlife Area	9,498	Greenwood	Unit 12	7
Ferris Wildlife Area	163	McPherson	Unit 6
Finney State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	831	Finney	Unit 17
Francis Wachs Wildlife Area	785	Phillips and Smith	Unit 3
Garton Wildlife Area	324	Lane	Unit 17
Geary State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	461	Geary	Unit 8
Glen Elder Wildlife Area	15,654	Mitchell and Osborne	Unit 7	8
Goodman State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	262	Ness	Unit 5
Grand Osage Wildlife Area	9,782	Labette	Unit 11	6
Greeley County Wildlife Area	896	Greeley	Unit 2
Griswold Wildlife Area	299	Republic and Washington	Unit 8
Gurley Salt Marsh Wildlife Area	167	Lincoln	Unit 7
Hain State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	78	Ford	Unit 17
Hamilton State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	573	Hamilton	Unit 17
Herron Playa Wildlife Area	687	Ford	Unit 17
Hillsdale Wildlife Area	6,016	Miami	Unit 11	4
Hodgeman State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	496	Hodgeman	Unit 17
Hollister Wildlife Area	2,408	Bourbon	Unit 11	1
Isabel Wildlife Area	442	Pratt	Unit 15
Jamestown Wildlife Area	5,024	Cloud, Republic and Jewell	Unit 7	2
Jeffrey Energy Center (Hanzlick) Wildlife Area	9,378	Pottawatomie	Unit 9	1
Jewell State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	155	Jewell	Unit 7
Kanopolis Wildlife Area	4,881	Ellsworth	Unit 4
Kansas River Wildlife Area (Topeka units)	389	Shawnee	Unit 9 and Unit 10	3
Kansas River Wildlife Area, K-18 (Ogden)	604	Geary and Riley	Unit 8
Kansas Veterans Wildlife Area	2,783	Sherman	Unit 2
Kaw Wildlife Area	4,309	Cowley	Unit 13
Kepley Wildlife Area	156	Grant	Unit 18
La Cygne Wildlife Area	1,962	Miami and Linn	Unit 11
Lane Wildlife Area	45	Lane	Unit 17
Leavenworth State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	288	Leavenworth	Unit 10
Logan Wildlife Area	535	Logan	Unit 2
Louisburg-Middle Creek State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	369	Miami	Unit 11
Lovewell Wildlife Area	4,529	Jewell	Unit 7
Lyon State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	452	Lyon	Unit 14
Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Area	8,223	Linn	Unit 11
Marion Wildlife Area	6,464	Marion	Unit 6	3
McPherson State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	123	McPherson	Unit 6
McPherson Valley Wetlands Wildlife Area	4,434	McPherson	Unit 6
Meade State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	503	Meade	Unit 18
Melvern Wildlife Area	14,450	Osage and Lyon	Unit 14	5
Miami State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	172	Miami	Unit 11
Milford Wildlife Area	22,763	Clay, Geary and Dickinson	Unit 8	7
Mined Land Wildlife Area	14,826	Cherokee and Crawford	Unit 11	6
Nebo State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	76	Jackson	Unit 10
Nemaha Wildlife Area	718	Nemaha	Unit 9
Neosho Wildlife Area	3,307	Neosho	Unit 11
Norton Wildlife Area	6,207	Norton	Unit 1
Oak Mills Wildlife Area	526	Leavenworth	Unit 10	1
Ottawa State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	662	Ottawa	Unit 8
Otter Creek Wildlife Area	1,883	Coffey	Unit 14
Perry Wildlife Area	26,765	Jefferson	Unit 10	7
Pottawatomie State Fishing Lake No. 1 and Wildlife Area	170	Pottawatomie	Unit 9
Pratt Sandhills Wildlife Area	5,677	Pratt	Unit 16
Rooks State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	308	Rooks	Unit 3
Scott State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	156	Scott	Unit 2
Shawnee State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	458	Shawnee	Unit 9
Sheridan State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	324	Sheridan	Unit 1
Sheridan Wildlife Area	437	Sheridan	Unit 1
Shoal Creek Wildlife Area	34	Cherokee	Unit 11
Slate Creek Wetlands Wildlife Area	928	Sumner	Unit 13
South Fork Wildlife Area	994	Cheyenne	Unit 1
Spring River Wildlife Area	400	Cherokee	Unit 11
St. Francis Wildlife Area	484	Cheyenne	Unit 1
Stein Playa Wildlife Area	119	Ford	Unit 17
Talmo Wildlife Area	948	Republic	Unit 8
Texas Lake Wildlife Area	1,252	Pratt	Unit 16
Toronto Wildlife Area	4,914	Greenwood and Woodson	Unit 12 and Unit 14
Tuttle Creek Wildlife Area	17,172	Marshall, Riley and Pottawatomie	Unit 9 and Unit 8	4
Vogel Wildlife Area	197	Phillips	Unit 3
Washington State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	417	Washington	Unit 8
Webster Wildlife Area	6,294	Rooks	Unit 3	4
Wild Turkey Playa Wildlife Area	153	Ford	Unit 17
Wilson State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	93	Wilson	Unit 11
Wilson Wildlife Area	8,182	Russell and Lincoln	Unit 7	3
Woodson State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area	2,803	Woodson	Unit 12	1

Acres measured by FilledTag from KDWP wildlife areas. 11 more areas on the agency's map have no page of their own: small ones next to a bigger area are named on its page, and the rest have too little published about them to fill one.

What rules apply on every KDWP wildlife area?

Commercial guiding of hunters is not allowed on public lands owned or managed by KDWP, including Walk-in Hunting Access (WIHA) and iWIHA areas.
Camping is allowed in designated areas only, for up to seven consecutive days; campers must then leave the property for at least five days.
Target shooting is allowed only at designated shooting ranges.
Baiting for any purpose, other than furharvesting, is prohibited on public lands and WIHA/iWIHA areas.
Only two portable blinds or stands are allowed per hunter. Portable blinds may not be left unattended overnight. Stands and portable blinds must be marked with the owner's name and address or KDWP number.
Decoys may not be left unattended overnight.
Use of trail cameras is prohibited on all public lands and WIHA/iWIHA areas.
On some wildlife areas, dove fields may be designated as non-toxic shot only by posted notice.
Vehicles must stay on state-maintained roadways. Off-road vehicle use on public land is allowed only by special permit.
Electronic daily check-in and check-out is required on Benedictine Bottoms, Berentz/Dick, Blue Valley, Bolton, Buck Creek, Cheyenne Bottoms, Clinton, Dalbey, Elwood, Glen Elder, Hillsdale, Isabel, Jamestown, Kansas River (Urish, MacVicar, K-18/Ogden, Fitzgerald), La Cygne, Lovewell, Lyon, Marais des Cygnes, Marion, McPherson Wetlands, Melvern, Milford, Neosho, Noe, Oak Mills, Perry, Slate Creek Wetlands, Talmo, Texas Lake, Tuttle Creek and iWIHA properties.

Source: KDWP's Fall 2026-Spring 2027 Hunting & Furharvesting Regulations Summary, page 7.

Questions hunters ask

What is the largest wildlife area in Kansas?

Cimarron National Grassland at 102,347 mapped acres, then Perry Wildlife Area (26,765), Milford Wildlife Area (22,763) and Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (18,948).

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Sources: KDWP's Fall 2026-Spring 2027 Hunting & Furharvesting Regulations Summary, page 7 to 16; KDWP wildlife areas. FilledTag is not part of Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.

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