The park is open for year-round recreation including camping, hunting, fishing, hiking, boating and picnicking.

[3] Lake Scott State Park is home to the only known Indian pueblo in Kansas, El Cuartelejo.

[4] The Taos Indians built the protective pueblos and an irrigation system from a nearby spring to water their crops.

A Spanish expedition used the pueblo in 1720 on a journey to the north and west to determine the strength of the French in the area.

The Spanish considered using the structure as a frontier station, but cancelled the undertaking due to its remote location from their supplies in New Mexico.

[4] The effects of weather and erosion caused the structure to disappear, leaving just a "slight mound" and some irrigation ditches.

[3][5] In 1970, the site has been excavated to reveal that the pueblo was a seven-room structure, enough to house a small band of Indians.

The original home is now a museum and displays furniture and tools used by the early settlers of Scott County.