Wellington Lake & Dam

Contact information

452 West 50th Street South Mayfield, Ks 67103 620-434-5454

Doug Kinney- Lake Supervisor
lakeoffice@cityofwellington.net

Jeremy Jones – Director of Public Works                       jeremyjones@cityofwellington.net

                                                 

Wellington Lake has so much to offer!

• Beautiful campsites! Electric and water hook-ups available.
• Three (3) large boat ramps.
• 1-mile mowed nature trail provides excellent opportunities for hiking.
• Handicap-accessible fishing pier is well lit and safe.
• Well-maintained covered picnic areas with grills.
• Two shower/restroom facilities
• Swimming area away from boat and fishing activity.
• Duck blind rentals available in the fall.
  

The Best Fishing Lake Around

The Wellington Lake Dam Project in 1993 increased the Lake's surface area by 50%. This quickly maturing water, combined with low fishing pressure has made Wellington Lake the best kept fishing secret in South Central Kansas.

 

The Lake has 1100 acres of surface water and 5 miles of shoreline. There are quality populations of channel cat, crappie, walleye, largemouth, wiper, saugeye, and flathead.

 

The Wellington Lake Department staff numbers two full time employees and four part time employees, who are supervised by the Lake Supervisor under the general management of the Director of Public Works. Lake Department employees are responsible for the following functions and services:

 

• Maintenance of all roadways around the lake, which include 8 miles of rock and gravel and 2 miles of camping trails. The department also hauls the material needed for the roadways and trails.
• Patrol 675 acres of water surface to insure safe waters for fishermen and boaters, also provide two fish feeders to help ensure healthy fish, replace batteries and fill feeders once a week from May through September, create fish habitat by installing brush piles, line shores with concrete from city projects, assist the state when net testing and stocking fish for the lake, assist Wal-Mart for the Kids Fishing Tournament, put on a Wellington Lake Walleye Tournament.
• Provide for repair and maintenance of four boat ramps, four boat docks, and one handicap fishing pier, two restrooms with showers and one restroom without, which are washed down weekly through the camping season.
• Remove floating debris from lake waters, maintain twenty-five no wake and no boat buoys.                                  
• Maintain seven electrical camp areas with fifty-nine electric boxes that total one hundred seventy-seven hookups, with access to water hookups, maintain three dump stations for disposal of wastewater from campers, upkeep fifty-two picnic tables, seventeen shelterhouses, twenty five fire rings, and eight trash cans, that are dumped weekly.
• The mowing of eight miles of shorelines and roadsides and several acres of camp areas, three quarters of a mile of nature trail, planting of trees on nature trail and campgrounds, maintain three swing sets and two merry-go-rounds, and one slide.
• Maintain a storm shelter which can hold around one hundred people, with lights and seating and also battery backup lights.
• Storm spot when paged to do so and sound storm siren to warn lake patrons, when necessary.
• Provide thirty two duck blind spots for waterfowl hunting, patrol and check for hunting license, provide two rental blinds that are supplied with decoys that are put out and maintained by lake employees.
• Lake is patrolled various hours during the week and weekend by lake employees. Lake office is also provided to issue required permits and licenses and to assist people requiring information about the lake.
• Lake employees participate with other city departments in the removal of snow from city sidewalks and streets and provide other assistance when needed by other departments