U.S. Forest Service · Coronado National Forest · AZ
Columbine Corrals Campground
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Season
- April 15 – November 14Open April 15 through November 14
Photos · U.S. Forest Service
9,480 ftElevation
1,014 ftWater · an unnamed stream
9.9 miSW of Thatcher, AZ
0%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 130th darkest of 262 in AZ
Open April 15 through November 14Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground, nestled in mixed-conifer forest at 9,440 feet, has six sites with picnic tables and fire pits. There are vault toilets, bear-proof trash cans, and public corrals. There is also drinking water at this site. Ash Creek Trail #307 and Web Peak Trail #345 start from the campground.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…picnic tables and fire pits. There are vault toilets, bear-proof trash cans, and public corrals. There…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…cans, and public corrals. There is also drinking water at this site. Ash Creek Trail #307 and Web Peak…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Single site: $15.
With Golden Age/Access or Interagency Senior/Access pass $7.50.
Payable with cash or check.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
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Riggs Flat CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 2.9 mi
Riggs LakeCoronado National Forest · 2.9 mi
Upper Hospital Flat Group SiteCoronado National Forest · 3.5 miTreasure Park - EastCoronado National Forest · 3.8 mi
Soldier Creek CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 0.6 miCunningham CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 2.3 miRiggs Flat CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 2.9 miRiggs LakeCoronado National Forest · 2.9 miUpper Hospital Flat Group SiteCoronado National Forest · 3.5 miTreasure Park - EastCoronado National Forest · 3.8 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today43°Sunny2% rain
Tonight31°Mostly Clear3% rain
Saturday39°Partly Sunny2% rain
Saturday Night30°Chance Rain Showers48% rain
NWS forecast for Thatcher, AZ
Source: National Weather Service, TWC forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 3, 2026
Who answers for this land
Columbine Corrals 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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 · Sep 9, 2026
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.