Crossroads Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Crossroads Campground is located on the riverfront of the beautiful Lower Colorado River. This campground is popular with winter visitors looking to enjoy the warm winter temperatures and relax on the riverfront. This campground has great access to fishing, boating and off-roading. Keep reading
Recreation
The Lower Colorado River offers excellent boating, fishing, canoeing and swimming opportunities. The campground provides river front views and a beach. Just follow the Parker Dam Road Scenic Backcountry Byway to various recreation sites along the river. The Rock House Visitor Center and Boat Launch are within a mile of the campground, and offers information and a free boat launch open year-round. Other popular activities in the Parker Strip Recreation Area include hiking, biking, rock hounding and off-road vehicle travel.
Facilities
This small campground contains individual campsites and one accessible campsite. All of the sites are dry camping (no water) and provide a picnic table and grill. One vault toilet is available. There is a Campground Host available to answer questions.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the shoreline of the Lower Colorado River. The river runs through a backdrop of steep rocky terrain, and wind shaped sand dunes. The area is teeming with wildlife, especially fish, migratory birds and small mammals.
Nearby Attractions
The Copper Basin Dunes and Crossroads Off- Highway Vehicle Open Areas offer miles of off-road adventures. Rock hounders enjoy hiking and driving through the area to search for unique rocks. Rock House Visitor Center has a free boat launch and a visitor center stocked with brochures and information about the area.
What the agency tells you
Attention! Due to COVID-19 the Camp Host Volunteers are on administrative leave and the restrooms will no longer be maintain or resupplied.
Sites #6, #24 & #25 are first-come, first-served sites.
Sites #3, #14, #15 & #16 are small sites unable to accommodate Motorhomes/RVs/Trailers/5th Wheels. Misrepresenting of rigs will result in cancellation of reservations. Check your receipts before you arrive.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Two (2) vehicle maximum includes living quarters: Motorhome/RV/Trailer/5th Wheel/Camper/Van and towing or towed transport vehicle: Truck/Jeep/Car. There are no group sites, sharing or sub leasing of camp sites will result in cancellation of reservations.
Off-Road Vehicles and Golf Carts must be trailered and not driven within the campground.
Reservations must be submitted through recreation.gov and will not be received over the phone.
For more information, call the Lake Havasu Field Office at (928) 505-1200.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Not allowed
- Shade
- 13 of 23 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…provide a picnic table and grill. One vault toilet is available. There is a Campground Host available…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…All of the sites are dry camping (no water) and provide a picnic table and grill. One vault…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Beach
- Night sky · 897th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
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.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 26 sites
| Main Loop | 01 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 35 ft | 127 ft |
| Main Loop | 02 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 32 ft | 128 ft | |
| Main Loop | 03 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 26 ft | 125 ft | |
| Main Loop | 04 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 26 ft | 124 ft | |
| Main Loop | 05 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 32 ft | 129 ft | |
| Main Loop | 06 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 32 ft | 136 ft | |
| Main Loop | 07 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 40 ft | 226 ft | |
| Main Loop | 08 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 40 ft | 232 ft | |
| Main Loop | 09 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 86 ft | 127 ft | |
| Main Loop | 10 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 46 ft | 57 ft | |
| Main Loop | 11 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 46 ft | 42 ft | |
| Main Loop | 12 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 38 ft | 55 ft | |
| Main Loop | 13 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 38 ft | 52 ft | |
| Main Loop | 14 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 58 ft | |
| Main Loop | 15 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 47 ft | 41 ftColorado River | |
| Main Loop | 16 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 47 ft | 41 ftColorado River | |
| Main Loop | 17 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 46 ft | 47 ftColorado River | |
| Main Loop | 18 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 46 ft | 57 ftColorado River | |
| Main Loop | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 51 ft | 64 ftColorado River | |
| Main Loop | 20 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 35 ft | 358 ft | |
| Main Loop | 21 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 35 ft | 393 ft | |
| Main Loop | 22 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 30 ft | 430 ft | |
| Main Loop | 23 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 30 ft | 460 ft | |
| Main Loop | 24 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 31 ft | 496 ft | |
| Main Loop | 25 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 31 ft | 526 ft | |
| Main Loop | 26 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 35 ft | 560 ft |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lake Havasu Shoreline Sites7.6 miCraggy Wash Dispersed Camping AreaLake Havasu Field Office · 28 miBrowns CampNeedles Field Office · 38 miLisa Dawn CampNeedles Field Office · 39 mi
Burro Creek CampgroundKingman Field Office · 49 miFrom Lake Havasu City, this campground is about 45 minutes south of town. Visitors will need to drive over the Parker Dam onto the California side of the Colorado River. (Note: Oversized vehicles and vehicles towing trailers are not permitted to cross the dam.) Located about 9 miles south of the Parker Dam on the California side of the Colorado River turn left at the BLM sign.
From Parker, drive north across the bridge over the Colorado River and turn right. Crossroads Campground will be 7 miles ahead on your right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cienega Springs, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 61°F, day 90°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 40°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
Who answers for this land
Crossroads Campground is in California’s 25th congressional district. Its representative, Raul Ruiz (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →