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U.S. Forest Service · Tonto National Forest · AZ

Burnt Corral Campground

ReservableOut of season; bookable November 1 through March 15.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: OpenThe agency lists it open
A night: $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 79All of them booked ahead
Season: Year-roundOpen year-round

Photos · Tonto NF

32 ftLongest rig

1,980 ftElevation

795 ftWater · Burnt Corral Creek

11.1 miSE of Tonto Basin, AZ

0%Tree cover

Open year-roundToday

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices

In the agency’s own words

Burnt Corral Campground and Recreation Area (elevation 1914') is about 5.8 miles south of Roosevelt Dam along the Apache Trail (AZ Hwy 88) along the shoreline of Apache Lake. It is nestled amongst the saguaros, mesquites, and palo verdes, and offers opportunities to boat, swim, fish, relax, hike, and sightsee. Keep reading

Recreation

Motorboating, fishing, water-skiing, and paddlesports are very popular because of the developed and undeveloped lake access from within the campground. Others may enjoy hiking nearby trails, being challenged by local jeep trails, or practicing their landscape photography, or simply relaxing with a good book.

Facilities

Burnt Corral Campground includes 76 camp units, vault toilets, potable water hydrants, 6 day-use picnic units, paved boat launch, boat boarding dock; Each campsite includes a parking spur, fire ring with grill, a shade ramada, and a picnic table. This campground provides access to visitors who are mobility impaired.

Natural Features

Burnt Corral Campground is situated in what may be the most stunning Sonoran Desert landscape in Arizona. The contrast of sunshine, clear blue water, and saguaro's surrounded by the Four Peaks and Superstition Wilderness' is a magnificant sight to see. While shade is scarce in the desert, campsites are situated amongst mature mesquite and palo verde trees, and desert chaparral. Apache Lake is 17 miles long making it the longest in the chain of reservoirs on the lower Salt River below Roosevelt Dam.

Nearby Attractions

Roosevelt Dam, Apache Lake Marina, Tortilla Flats, Tonto National Monument (Cliff Dwellings), Roosevelt Lake, Apache Trail Scenic Byway (AZ Hwy 88), Spines to Pines Scenic Byway (AZ Hwy 288). The City of Globe and Town of Payson are only an hour away.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Access to Burnt Coral Campground is via the AZ Hwy 88 which is narrow, steep, and windy in spots. Max vehicle length is 40' and maximum trailer length is 22'. - Check in time is 2:00pm and check out time is 11:00am. Quiet hours are from 10:00pm to 6:00am. - During June, July, and August temperatures reach well over 100° and many RV air conditioners cannot keep up. - Gas is only located at both ends of the lake. - Extra (second) vehicle charge of $8 per night is required. An RV towing a car counts as one vehicle and a vehicle pulling a trailer counts as one vehicle. Fee can be bundled with online reservation or purchased on-site at fee machine. Maximum of 2 vehicles per campsite. - Boat ramps are usable when water elevations are higher then 2,110 feet. - Fireworks are always prohibited on National Forest Land. - Maximum stay limit is 14 days within 30 consecutive days on the Tonto National Forest including dispersed areas.

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 79
Hookups: None
Longest rig: 32 ft
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Vault Toilets; ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 79 of 79 campsite records
Drinking water: Yes; DRINKING WATER on 79 of 79 campsite records
Boat ramp: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Biking; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Paddling; Picnicking; Water access; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 219th darkest of 262 in AZ: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Something open on 15 of the next 15 bookable nightsread 16:43 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBookedNot reservable

Booking windowFrom November 1Out of season now. Bookable for November 1, 2026 through March 15, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$20–$40plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$48–$88DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night, per site$20–$40

Single Campsite$20

Double Campsite$40

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Mar 16, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$28–$48

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$48–$88

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 5

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:43 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

79 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 79 mapped sites

52 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomMain 69 98 ftMain 20 90 ftMain 25 90 ftMain 44 85 ftMain 51 80 ft

Least roomMain 41 19 ftMain 43 19 ftMain 42 22 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 79 sites

79 of 79 sites located

Standard79

1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3 30 31A 31B 31C 31D 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 4 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 5 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 6 60 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 7 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 8 9

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 79 of the 79 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


Main	1	standard nonelectric	32 ft	73 ft	434 ft	$20–$40
Main	10	standard nonelectric	32 ft	45 ft	507 ft	$20–$40
Main	11	standard nonelectric	32 ft	45 ft	498 ft	$20–$40
Main	12	standard nonelectric	32 ft	60 ft	436 ft	$20–$40
Main	13	standard nonelectric	32 ft	67 ft	430 ft	$20–$40
Main	14	standard nonelectric	32 ft	59 ft	377 ft	$20–$40
Main	15	standard nonelectric	32 ft	77 ft	332 ft	$20–$40
Main	16	standard nonelectric	32 ft	59 ft	328 ft	$20–$40
Main	17	standard nonelectric	32 ft	39 ft	343 ft	$20–$40
Main	18	standard nonelectric	32 ft	39 ft	378 ft	$20–$40
Main	19	standard nonelectric	32 ft	52 ft	350 ft	$20–$40
Main	2	standard nonelectric	32 ft	61 ft	404 ft	$20–$40
Main	20	standard nonelectric	32 ft	90 ft	342 ft	$20–$40
Main	21	standard nonelectric	32 ft	45 ft	299 ft	$20–$40
Main	22	standard nonelectric	32 ft	40 ft	277 ft	$20–$40
Main	23	standard nonelectric	32 ft	67 ft	378 ft	$20–$40
Main	24	standard nonelectric	32 ft	40 ft	301 ft	$20–$40
Main	25	standard nonelectric	32 ft	90 ft	271 ft	$20–$40
Main	26	standard nonelectric	32 ft	48 ft	270 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	27	standard nonelectric	32 ft	33 ft	318 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	28	standard nonelectric	32 ft	33 ft	307 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	29	standard nonelectric	32 ft	44 ft	296 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	3	standard nonelectric	32 ft	61 ft	366 ft	$20–$40
Main	30	standard nonelectric	32 ft	56 ft	268 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	31A	standard nonelectric	32 ft	49 ft	199 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	31B	standard nonelectric	32 ft	28 ft	194 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	31C	standard nonelectric	32 ft	28 ft	170 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	31D	standard nonelectric	32 ft	66 ft	107 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	32	standard nonelectric	32 ft	27 ft	198 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	33	standard nonelectric	32 ft	27 ft	187 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	34	standard nonelectric	32 ft	54 ft	177 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	35	standard nonelectric	32 ft	30 ft	77 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	36	standard nonelectric	32 ft	30 ft	94 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	37	standard nonelectric	32 ft	49 ft	61 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	38	standard nonelectric	32 ft	48 ft	85 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	39	standard nonelectric	32 ft	48 ft	121 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	4	standard nonelectric	32 ft	60 ft	504 ft	$20–$40
Main	40	standard nonelectric	32 ft	54 ft	70 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	41	standard nonelectric	32 ft	19 ft	85 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	42	standard nonelectric	32 ft	22 ft	71 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	43	standard nonelectric	32 ft	19 ft	101 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	44	standard nonelectric	32 ft	85 ft	48 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	45	standard nonelectric	32 ft	71 ft	141 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	46	standard nonelectric	32 ft	49 ft	136 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	47	standard nonelectric	32 ft	43 ft	184 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	48	standard nonelectric	32 ft	43 ft	161 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	49	standard nonelectric	32 ft	55 ft	201 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	5	standard nonelectric	32 ft	64 ft	438 ft	$20–$40
Main	50	standard nonelectric	32 ft	74 ft	225 ft	$20–$40
Main	51	standard nonelectric	32 ft	80 ft	112 ftSalt River	$20–$40
Main	52	standard nonelectric	32 ft	50 ft	126 ft	$20–$40
Main	53	standard nonelectric	32 ft	49 ft	129 ft	$20–$40
Main	54	standard nonelectric	32 ft	58 ft	101 ft	$20–$40
Main	55	standard nonelectric	32 ft	49 ft	154 ft	$20–$40
Main	56	standard nonelectric	32 ft	48 ft	130 ft	$20–$40
Main	57	standard nonelectric	32 ft	52 ft	195 ft	$20–$40
Main	58	standard nonelectric	32 ft	48 ft	155 ft	$20–$40
Main	59	standard nonelectric	32 ft	62 ft	217 ft	$20–$40
Main	6	standard nonelectric	32 ft	31 ft	546 ft	$20–$40
Main	60	standard nonelectric	32 ft	65 ft	200 ft	$20–$40
Main	62	standard nonelectric	32 ft	54 ft	175 ft	$20–$40
Main	63	standard nonelectric	32 ft	52 ft	177 ft	$20–$40
Main	64	standard nonelectric	32 ft	52 ft	220 ft	$20–$40
Main	65	standard nonelectric	32 ft	53 ft	203 ft	$20–$40
Main	66	standard nonelectric	32 ft	49 ft	152 ft	$20–$40
Main	67	standard nonelectric	32 ft	49 ft	140 ft	$20–$40
Main	68	standard nonelectric	32 ft	53 ft	109 ft	$20–$40
Main	69	standard nonelectric	32 ft	98 ft	99 ft	$20–$40
Main	7	standard nonelectric	32 ft	31 ft	574 ft	$20–$40
Main	70	standard nonelectric	32 ft	66 ft	154 ft	$20–$40
Main	71	standard nonelectric	32 ft	58 ft	219 ft	$20–$40
Main	72	standard nonelectric	32 ft	70 ft	198 ft	$20–$40
Main	73	standard nonelectric	32 ft	55 ft	156 ft	$20–$40
Main	74	standard nonelectric	32 ft	67 ft	223 ft	$20–$40
Main	75	standard nonelectric	32 ft	58 ft	258 ft	$20–$40
Main	76	standard nonelectric	32 ft	73 ft	307 ft	$20–$40
Main	77	standard nonelectric	32 ft	73 ft	353 ft	$20–$40
Main	8	standard nonelectric	32 ft	62 ft	555 ft	$20–$40
Main	9	standard nonelectric	32 ft	75 ft	491 ft	$20–$40

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 79 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate33.62738, -111.20333

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phoneTONTO BASIN RANGER DISTRICT (602) 225-5395

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Frazier Horse CampgroundTonto National Forest · 5.0 mi

Frazier Group CampgroundTonto National Forest · 5.1 mi

Cholla CampgroundTonto National Forest · 7.2 mi

Windy Hill CampgroundTonto National Forest · 7.2 mi

Grapevine Group CampgroundTonto National Forest · 9.1 mi Indian PointTonto National Forest · 9.7 mi

Getting there

Access to Burnt Corral from Tortilla Flat HWY88E/Apache Trail is currently closed, please use an alternative route.

From the Mesa area: Head to AZ-87N for approximately 59 miles. Turns right onto AZ-188S for 31.6 miles. Turn right onto AZ-88W for 6 miles and Burnt Corral Recreation Site will be on your right.

From the Globe area: Take AZ-188 west for 30 miles to its junction with AZ-88. Turn left onto AZ-88, and continue past historic Roosevelt Dam (unpaved) for 5 miles to Forest Road FR 183/ Burnt Corral Recreation Site. Turn right and continue to site.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight62°Partly Cloudy

Saturday74°Partly Sunny12% rain

Saturday Night62°Chance Rain Showers27% rain

Sunday75°Chance Rain Showers then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms27% rain

NWS forecast for Roosevelt, AZ

Source: National Weather Service, PSR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 59°F, day 85°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 40°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

110°30°

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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: ROOSEVELT 1 S, AZ (USC00027281), 6 miles away and 625 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

critical

Oak Flat / Chi'chil Bildagoteelmining · 23 mi

Roadless

Horse Mesa9,146 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 5, 2026

Who answers for this land

Burnt Corral Campground is in Arizona’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, David Schweikert (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: The agency lists it open right now.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 79 of the 79 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026

Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 79 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.58 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 262 rated federal campgrounds in Arizona · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Roosevelt, AZ, 4 mi WSW (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026