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Riverside Park


category : Recreation
Riverside Park Riverside Park is located at the east edge of Baxter Springs on Spring River on the south side of Highway 166. Facilities include fishing, boat ramp, camping electrical hook-ups, shelter houses, tables, grills, and rest rooms.


   

Facilities Species
KS Boat Ramps - KS Bluegill -
Boat Rental - Buffalo yes
Camping - Bullhead yes
Drinking Water - Channel Catfish yes
Dump Station - Crappie yes
Electric Hookups - Flathead Catfish yes
Marina - Green Sunfish -
Picnic Areas yes Largemouth Bass yes
Swimming - Redear Sunfish -
Trailer Pads - Sauger -
Saugeye -
Smallmouth Bass -
Spotted Bass yes
Striped Bass -
Trout -
Walleye yes
White Bass yes
Wiper -

Come visit us in Baxter Springs, Kansas

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Fort Blair Site

Baxter Springs was a stopping place on the old Military Road serving Army forts which protected the preCivil War West from "hostile" Indians. It wasn't until 1862

Baxter Springs, KS Forts


Log Cabin

The log cabin was built east of the Lowell Cemetery in the 1870s. R.A. Hibbard built it as a home for his brother-in-law's family. Kent Lynch purchased the property and donated the cabin to the Historical Society in memory of Marsah Moncrief Lynch. In 1987

Baxter Springs, KS Pioneer History

Murals

1. " The Baxter Springs Massacre" by Edmond V. Ness is displayed inside the museum. - Historical Museum, 8th and East Avenue 2. Painted on the exterior wall of Bilke's Western Museum of the longhorn cattle drive. Artist, John Gibbons, 1991. - 11th and Military 3

Baxter Springs, KS Arts

Tri-State Marker

See the Tri-State Marker and be in three states at once! The meeting point of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri is 6 miles east of Baxter Springs on Highway 166/400. Turn south on the small paved road just west of the state line, and continue to the dead end. Built in 1938

Baxter Springs, KS Geographical Markers

Things to do Recreation near Baxter Springs, KS

Walking Stations

Walking Stations: Fredonia Southeast City Park (2 blocks south of Washington on 15th St.) and Pryor Field (11th and Robinson)...

Basketball Court

Enjoy our newly resurfaced basketball court and new goals....