The canoe rental shop opens up on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend and closes the last weekend in September. The canoe rental shop is CLOSED Monday and Tuesday during the week due cleaning purposes of kayaks and giving staff time off. The canoe rental shop is OPEN Wednesday thru Sunday at 10am and everyone has to be off the water by 6pm. It is $10 an hour to rent one of the kayaks, canoes, or paddleboards from the park and they CANNOT leave the River Pond Area. Everyone who uses one of these floatation devices must be wearing their PFDs, and the canoe rental shed does have a limited stock of PFDs that can be borrowed. Children under the age of 12 must ride in a tandem kayak accompanied with another adult. The kayaks, canoes, and paddleboards are all first come first service bases, we do not reserve any beforehand. If you have questions, please call the park office at: 785-539-7941, office hours are: M-F 8am-4:30pm.