Ashurst Lake
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 25All of them booked ahead
- Season
- – October 11Closes October 11. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
In addition to fishing and board sailing, the lake offers excellent opportunities for birdwatching during the spring waterfowl migration. For a special treat look for white-faced ibises grazing in the shallows along with the cinnamon teal, pintails and other ducks. Bald eagles and osprey can also be seen in the area, along with a number of species of hawks and songbirds. A graveled road to the lake and graveled road that surrounds most of the lake provides convenient access for most passenger vehicles and bicycles. Rustic gravel and “two-track” roads in the area offer some great opportunities to mountain bike or walk out into the surrounding juniper/ponderosa mixed forest for some wildlife viewing and open spaces. The San Francisco Peaks stand majestically on the horizon providing a grand display of Arizona’s volcanic past. Keep reading
Facilities
25 singles unit sites (Ashurst), tables, fire rings, and cooking grills, drinking water, toilets (vault and compost type). Boat ramp is located on the lake's west side. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 774-9671.
What the agency tells you
Tents and motor homes and trailers up to 35 feet are permitted at both campgrounds. No utility hookups. Pets must always be restrained or on a leash. No horses allowed in the campground. Motorbikes may only be used for entering or leaving campsite. 14 day stay limit.
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Extra vehicle fee of $10.00 per night of stay on the second vehicle in each single family campsite provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 25
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Little
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 25 of 25 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 2 of 25 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 25 of 25 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 1 of 25 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee of $10.00 per night of stay on the second vehicle in each single family campsite provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $27 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 22 mapped sitesAll 25 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 22 of the 25 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 25 of the 25 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Ashurst Lake | 01 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 1.7 miIndian Lake | 233 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 02 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 1.7 miIndian Lake | 300 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 03 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 1.7 mi | 293 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 04 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 1.7 mi | 246 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 05 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1.7 mi | 352 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 06 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1.7 mi | 396 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 07 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 1.7 mi | 452 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 08 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $27 | ||
| Ashurst Lake | 09 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 1.6 mi | 587 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 10 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 1.6 mi | 596 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 11 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 1.6 mi | 619 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 12 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1.6 mi | 662 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 13 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1.6 mi | 694 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 14 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 1.6 mi | 799 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 15 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 1.6 mi | 833 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 16 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 1.6 mi | 839 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 17 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 1.6 mi | 778 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 18 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 1.6 mi | 835 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 19 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 1.6 mi | 674 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 20 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 1.6 mi | 719 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 21 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 1.6 mi | 932 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 22 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 1.6 mi | 1,018 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 23 | standard nonelectric | 129 ft | 1.6 mi | 1,046 ft | $27 |
| Ashurst Lake | 24 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $27 | ||
| Ashurst Lake | 25 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $27 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Forked Pine CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 0.5 mi
Pine Grove CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 3.1 mi
PinegroveCoconino National Forest · 3.2 mi
Lakeview Campground (AZ)Coconino National Forest · 5.9 mi
Dairy SpringsCoconino National Forest · 6.2 mi
Double SpringsCoconino National Forest · 7.2 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mormon Lake, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Ashurst Lake is in Arizona’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Eli Crane (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →