Burro Creek Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 28 of the next 30 nights read 15:21 UTC
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Burro Creek Campground (1,960’ elevation) is situated along the 57 mile Burro Creek in a transition zone between the upper reaches of the scenic Sonoran Desert and lower reaches of the scenic Mojave Desert. The campground offers visitors a variety of scenery including saguaro-studded cliffs along steep canyon walls that contrast Burro Creek’s dense vegetation and flowing waters that form deep pools of water just adjacent to the campground. The campground accepts reservations for the group site, sites 7 & 9, and 10-17. Reservations must be made at least 7 days in advance of your arrival at the site. Sites 1-6, 8, and 18-23 are available on a first-come first-serve basis. Keep reading
Recreation
To enhance the visitor experience, the campground features a Watchable Wildlife Exhibit and an Interpretive Desert Garden as well as access to Burro Creek via hiking trails from the campground. The creek offers opportunities for rockhounding, wading, and wildlife viewing especially for birding with a wide-array of raptors and other species of birds. Sites 7, 8, and 9 are best for bird watching.
Facilities
Access to the Burro Creek Campground is provided via a 1.25 mile paved road from U.S. Highway 93 at mile post 140.2. The campground offers visitors 23 individual campsites, 1 group site, and 2 day-use sites featuring shaded picnic tables, fire rings with grates, and grills at the group site and day-use area. Flush toilet facilities are provided at 2 different locations in the campground as well as 1 dump station. Although water hookups are not available at campsites, drinking water is provided a various locations throughout the campground. In planning your trip, please note that sites 1, 2, and 10 through 17 are best for larger RVs (Class A) and trailers (fifth wheels) due to maneuverability throughout the site. Other sites can be utilized for larger RVs and trailers, but it is recommended for visitor convenience that the aforementioned sites are used first.
Natural Features
The campground scenery features an adjacent canyon carved by the flow of Burro Creek with other mountains and mesas visible in the background as well as a diverse Sonoran desert plant community including saguaros, a variety of cholla and barrel cacti, creosote bushes, Palo Verde trees, and catclaw. Nearby, on the banks of Burro Creek, visitors will also see willow and cottonwood trees as well as a wide-variety of riparian shrubs. Wildlife is frequent in the campground and include occasional sightings of desert bighorn sheep on the cliffs above Burro Creek and a variety of birds including cactus wren, Gambel’s quail, Gila woodpecker, great horned owl, great blue heron, Vermilion flycatcher, and cliff swallow to name a few. Javelina, raccoons, coyotes, and foxes have been known to use the area as the creek serves an important role in the harsh desert environment.
Nearby Attractions
The public lands surrounding the Burro Creek Campground are readily available for visitors interested in sightseeing via use of a four-wheel drive vehicle along county-maintained dirt roads. These roads wind through a variety of interesting geologic scenery combined with unique vegetative communities including Sonoran and Mojave deserts intermingled with areas of interior chaparral and pinyon-juniper woodlands. County roads are maintained regularly, but it is always a good idea to check with the local BLM office prior to planning your trip as well as exercising caution when travelling on any of these unimproved dirt roads as visitors travel at their own risk. The area, while desolate during the warm summer months, gives way to cooler temperatures from October through April annually and provides exceptional opportunities for hunting, off-highway vehicle use, wildlife watching, photography, sightseeing, and a variety of other dispersed recreational opportunities. Depending upon winter and spring precipitation, the area surrounding the Burro Creek Campground provides visitors with excellent spring wildflower displays March through May.
Charges & Cancellations
Recreation.gov Reservation Cancellations & Changes Cancelling a Reservation: Customers may cancel their reservation prior to arrival both on-line and through the call center. A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. Depending on when you cancel in relation to your arrival day, it may be considered a late cancellation (see below). Recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee. Recreation.gov No-Shows -Overnight and Day-Use Facilities: A no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date (or for day-use facilities, by check-in time the day of arrival). Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date and will hold group day-use facilities until check-in time on the arrival date. -No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night’s recreation fee.
What the agency tells you
In accordance with 43 Code of Federal Regulations (Part 8364, subpart 8364.1 and part 8365), a maximum camping stay of 14 Days in any 28 day period was established for all public lands administered by the BLM, Kingman Field Office of Arizona on October 30, 1998.
Please print and bring your recreation.gov confirmation letter with you or be able to show your confirmation email. (note: Only Sprint/T-Mobile customers have cell service at the site)
Electrical or water hook-ups are not available at this location.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Quiet hours are between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Pets are welcome provided they are on a 6 foot leash or in a kennel and never unattended.
One (1) designated accessible campsite is available at the campground (campsite 12).
The dump station may be used free of charge with any reservation. RV sewage and wastewater tanks must be emptied at the dump station.
If there is not an overnight camping reservation, then the dump station may be used by paying a $10.00 fee remitted to the on-site fee deposit box.
Please plan accordingly as reliable cell phone service isn’t available at the campground.
There are a number of unique animal/insect species native to this area, so, for your own safety, please do not approach or disturb wildlife.
Build fires only in fire rings or grills. Fire in other places are not allowed.
There is no fire wood available for sale at the campground, please plan accordingly if you intend to have camp fires.
Fire Restrictions may be imposed due to dry conditions, at which time smoking, wood and charcoal fires may be prohibited. Call the Kingman Field Office at (928)718-3700 to see if any restrictions are in effect.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 120 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 24
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 24 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Backpacking
- Birding
- Environmental Education
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 61st darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 15:21 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot reservable
Every one of the 3 sites on offer is taken this Saturday, and on three midweek nights after it as well. read 15:21 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 · 18
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $14 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.
“A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. Recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (n…” · this campground’s own no-show 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 15:21 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 25 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 25 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. 24 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.
| Lower Group Access Road | Group Site | group standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 388 ft | 3.1 mi | 370 ft | $50 | |
| Lower Inner Loop | 10 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 77 ft | 3.1 mi | 274 ft | $14 | |
| Lower Inner Loop | 11 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 95 ft | 3.1 mi | 260 ft | $14 | |
| Lower Inner Loop | 12 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 82 ft | 3.1 mi | 144 ft | $14 |
| Lower Inner Loop | 13 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 61 ft | 3.1 mi | 179 ft | $14 | |
| Lower Inner Loop | 14 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 61 ft | 3.1 mi | 240 ft | $14 | |
| Lower Inner Loop | 15 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 92 ft | 3.1 mi | 279 ft | $14 | |
| Lower Inner Loop | 16 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 56 ft | 3.1 mi | 206 ft | $14 | |
| Lower Inner Loop | 17 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 56 ft | 3.1 mi | 198 ft | $14 | |
| Main Access Road | Host Site | host pad | 3.1 mi | 277 ft | ||||
| Outer Loop | 1 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 121 ft | 3.1 mi | 229 ft | $14 | |
| Outer Loop | 2 | standard nonelectric | 120 ft | 100 ft | 3.1 mi | 280 ft | $14 | |
| Outer Loop | 3 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 154 ft | 3.1 mi | 259 ft | $14 | |
| Outer Loop | 4 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 88 ft | 3.2 mi | 209 ft | $14 | |
| Outer Loop | 5 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 92 ft | 3.2 mi | 257 ft | $14 | |
| Outer Loop | 6 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 124 ft | 3.2 mi | 366 ft | $14 | |
| Outer Loop | 7 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 145 ft | 3.1 mi | 117 ft | $14 | |
| Outer Loop | 8 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 75 ft | 3.1 mi | 161 ft | $14 | |
| Outer Loop | 9 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 75 ft | 3.1 mi | 220 ft | $14 | |
| Upper Inner Loop | 18 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 3.1 mi | 123 ft | $14 | |
| Upper Inner Loop | 19 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 131 ft | 3.2 mi | 180 ft | $14 | |
| Upper Inner Loop | 20 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 37 ft | 3.2 mi | 323 ft | $14 | |
| Upper Inner Loop | 21 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 37 ft | 3.2 mi | 305 ft | $14 | |
| Upper Inner Loop | 22 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 75 ft | 3.2 mi | 412 ft | $14 | |
| Upper Inner Loop | 23 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 75 ft | 3.2 mi | 387 ft | $14 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Burro Creek Recreation SiteKingman Field Office · 0.0 mi
Lake Havasu Shoreline Sites42 mi
Wild Cow Springs CampgroundKingman Field Office · 43 mi
Crossroads CampgroundLake Havasu Field Office · 49 miShea Road Spectator AreaLake Havasu Field Office · 49 mi
Alto Pit OHV CampgroundPrescott National Forest · 51 miThe Burro Creek Recreation Site is located 60 miles northwest of Wickenburg on Highway 93.
From Kingman, AZ: Travel east 17 miles on Interstate 40, then south 53 miles on Highway 93. The recreation site turnoff is one mile south of Burro Creek Bridge. From the signed turnoff, continue 1.5 miles to the recreation site via the paved access road.
From Phoenix, AZ: Travel north on the U.S. 60 towards Wickenburg. At the first roundabout in Wickenburg veer right onto Highway 93 and proceed north towards Kingman for 59 miles until reaching the signed turnoff for the Burro Creek Campground, continue 1.5 miles to the recreation site via the paved access road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wikieup, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 87°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Burro Creek Campground is in Arizona’s 9th congressional district. Its representative, Paul Gosar (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyPaul A. GosarU.S. Representative · Arizona’s 9th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMark KellyU.S. Senator · Arizona
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRuben GallegoU.S. Senator · Arizona
No contact form we could verify, so that link is their own site. Contact is inside it. Washington office: 202-224-4521.
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Burro Creek Campground, Kingman Field Office, Arizona
Dear Paul A. Gosar, I’m a constituent in Arizona’s 9th district. I tried to camp at Burro Creek Campground, Kingman Field Office, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 24 sites at Burro Creek Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 3 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Burro Creek Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Burro Creek Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Burro Creek Campground (Kingman Field Office, Arizona) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Burro Creek Campground, Kingman Field Office, Arizona
Dear Mark Kelly, I’m a constituent in Arizona. I tried to camp at Burro Creek Campground, Kingman Field Office, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 24 sites at Burro Creek Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 3 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Burro Creek Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Burro Creek Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Burro Creek Campground (Kingman Field Office, Arizona) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Burro Creek Campground, Kingman Field Office, Arizona
Dear Ruben Gallego, I’m a constituent in Arizona. I tried to camp at Burro Creek Campground, Kingman Field Office, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 24 sites at Burro Creek Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 3 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Burro Creek Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Burro Creek Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Burro Creek Campground (Kingman Field Office, Arizona) via campanac.com