Bonita Canyon Campground
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- Bonita Canyon Scenic Drive Temporarily ClosedPark Closure naming this campground · open
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bonita Canyon Campground is located in Chiricahua National Monument, Willcox, AZ. Visitors love the historic, treed campsites, hiking the "Wonderland of Rocks" and bird watching opportunities. NOTE: While some vehicles up to 29 feet may fit in the campground, the scenic drive is restricted to 24 feet. Scenic drive may be hazardous to tall or wide vehicles . See campground details. Outside the park, Coronado National Forest provides additional camping and recreation opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Chiricahua National Monument offers beautiful views, wildlife watching, and miles of hiking trails.
Facilities
IMPORTANT: Maximum vehicle length is 29 ft (9 m) per piece including racks. Any trailer or vehicle over 29 feet OR with an overhang of more than 9 feet may "bottom out" on the road crossing the creek into the campground. Check the driveway length and notes to determine if a site is large enough for your tow vehicle and trailer. Be prepared to remove bike racks and hitches. Only a few sites will accommodate Trailers or RVs. Sites may be difficult to back into and may not be level. No Hook Ups. (No electric, sewer, or dump station). Full-service campgrounds are available in Willcox or Sunizona, AZ. An individual campsite will accommodate a maximum of 8 people, 2 vehicles, and 2 tents. A trailer counts as a vehicle. No parking outside of reserved campsites. Vehicles unable to fit inside the campsite must park outside the park. View the driveway length, notes, and allowable equipment to confirm whether the campsite is level and long enough for both your trailer and vehicle before booking. Reservations not claimed within 24 hours of check‑in (by noon the following day) will be cancelled . Site #8 is special needs accessible . Electric use is permitted for medical equipment only. No Showers. The restroom has flush toilets and sinks. Drinking water faucets are located throughout the campground. Hose connections/tank filling prohibited. All sites have a picnic table, raised grill, food storage box, and tent pad. No ground fires and no wood collection. Hanging of hammocks or any items from trees or other vegetation is prohibited. Quiet hours are from 8:00 pm to 8:00 am. Generators allowed: 8-10 am & 4-6 pm. No horse camping or horse trailers in the monument. Please check Coronado National Forest for options.
Natural Features
Set in a pine and oak forest, Bonita Canyon Campground provides an atmosphere of relaxation. Most campsites have shade. The Bonita Creek is dry most of the year but may run during summer monsoon or winter snows.
Nearby Attractions
Visit the Chiricahua National Monument website to learn about the Visitor Center Museum & Store, scenic drive, hiking and more. Nearby federal lands include: Fort Bowie National Historic Site , Coronado National Memorial , the Coronado National Forest (including Portal/Cave Creek ). Explore Cochise County provides information on nearby communities and activities. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (520) 824-3560 for general information.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservations not occupied within 24 hours of check‑in (by noon the following day) may be cancelled. Please modify your reservation on the app or website if you will not be using a reserved night. Updating your reservation: Ensures the rest of your stay is protected Opens the site for others May result in a refund The visitor center cannot hold reservations an extra day for late arrivals. If you arrive after the reservation has been cancelled, you will need to make a new reservation. If you experience technical issues, call the service center at 877‑444‑6777 to request a reservation modification.
What the agency tells you
This helpful handout includes a map with sites suitable for trailers and RVs, fire information, and key rules. Reservations not claimed within 24 hours of check‑in (by noon the following day) may be cancelled. The visitor center cannot make exceptions or hold reservations for late arrivals. Please, modify your reservation if you expect to arrive late.
Your truck and trailer together must fit within the length of the driveway. Vehicles may not fit side by side. Each vehicle or trailer cannot exceed 29 feet (8.8 m). Very tall or wide vehicles, or anything with more than 9.5 feet of overhang, may scrape the road or trees when entering or leaving the campground. Check the site notes to make sure the site is level and driveway is long enough for both vehicles.
Arrival time: noon or later. Check out by 11 am. Please note: reservations will be cancelled if site is not occupied within 24 hours.
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Quiet hours 8 pm to 8 am. Generators allowed 8-10 am and 4-6 pm.
Each campsite is allowed a maximum of 8 people, 2 vehicles, and 2 tents. You must be able to fit all of your things into your site. A trailer counts as a vehicle. Book additional sites if you have more than 2 tents or 2 vehicles.
The Group Site is for tent campers only: 9 to 24 people. No trailers or RVs. Max 5 small vehicles.
No overnight parking is allowed in the park. Excess vehicles, trailers, and anything unable to fit or not permitted in the site must be left outside the park.
Nothing can be tied to a tree. Hammocks, tarps, and showers tied to trees are prohibited. Please protect our trees from bark beetles.
Use metal food storage boxes provided to deter bears, skunks, mice, and other wildlife. Any food or coolers left out without campers present may be confiscated. Keep a clean campsite for your safety and the safety of other campers and wildlife. Please note: feeding wildlife and birds is prohibited.
Dogs or other pets must be leashed at all times and cannot be left unattended. Please note: dogs are prohibitied on many trails through the rocks. Hikers may want to leave dogs at home.
Restroom has flush toilets. No showers. Drinking water faucets are located throughout the campground. No bathing or dishwashing is allowed at spigots.
Soapy water should be disposed of in the 2 gray water disposals. No hose connections, hook ups or blackwater dump. Freshwater draining prohibited.
When allowed, campfires are permitted only in designated grills. Ground fires are never allowed. Wood and kindling gathering is prohibited in the park. Fires may be restricted at anytime, especially during dry periods April to July. New in 2025: Unsafe or hazardous materials in fires prohibited. Only safer, common fuels such as purchased firewood or charcoal are permitted. Lighting or maintaining a fire using flammable liquids, garbage, plastics, or other synthetic materials is strictly prohibited.
There is no food, ice, gas, or vehicle charging available in the park. Willcox, AZ, is the closest town and is 37 miles (59 km) from the park.
Visit the Chiricahua National Monument website for more information. Follow us on Facebook .
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 23 · 1 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 29 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “No Showers.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Birding
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Visitor center
- Wilderness access
- Night sky · 35th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 2
4 of 46 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:38 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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.
“Reservations not occupied within 24 hours of check‑in (by noon the following day) may be cancelled. Please modify your reservation on the app or website if you will not be using a reserved night. Updating your reservation: - Ensures the rest of your stay is protected - Opens the site for others - May result in a ref…” · this campground’s own terms
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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:38 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 26 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 23 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 01 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 39 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 02 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 39 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 03 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 37 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 04 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 37 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 05 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 33 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 06 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 33 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 07 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 33 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 08 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | yes | 37 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 09 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 37 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 10 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 37 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 11 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 21 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 12 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 21 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 13 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 31 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 14 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 31 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 15 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 100 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 16 - Host/Volunteer | host pad | 29 ft | 3.0 mi | |||
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 17 - Host/Volunteer | host pad | 29 ft | 3.0 mi | |||
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 18 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 95 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 19 - Host/Volunteer | host pad | 29 ft | 3.0 mi | |||
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 20 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 17 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 21 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 17 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 22 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 40 ft | 3.0 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 23 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 75 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 24 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 74 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 25 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 74 ft | 3.1 mi | $25 | |
| Bonita Canyon Campground | 26 | group tent only area nonelectric | 29 ft | 95 ft | 3.0 mi | $50 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rustler Park CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 8.6 mi
Sycamore CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 11 mi
Herb Martyr CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 12 mi
Sunny Flat CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 14 mi
Portal CCC HouseCoronado National Forest · 14 miIdlewilde CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 14 miChiricahua National Monument is 45 minutes south of Willcox, AZ. Visit our website for additional directions.
Remember to get gas, supplies, and vehicle charging in town!
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sunizona, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Junes are colder than the June line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Bonita Canyon Campground is in Arizona’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Juan Ciscomani (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →