Dogtown Lake Campground and Group
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $30–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 55All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dogtown Lake offers a scenic setting convenient to Grand Canyon National Park and the cities of Williams and Flagstaff, Arizona. The campground is situated in a pine forest along the shore of a small and scenic lake. Visitors come here to hike, fish, mountain bike and explore the area's cultural and natural history. It's also a great place to relax and enjoy the sound of the wind in the pines and the spectacular view of nearby Bill Williams Mountain. Keep reading
Recreation
Campers are drawn to the area's hiking and fishing opportunities. The lake is stocked with trout, crappie and channel catfish. Visitors can enjoy a guided nature trail near the lake and a hiking trail that leads to a scenic overlook of the area from the top of nearby Davenport Hill. The calm waters are inviting for canoes, kayaks and electric motorboats. Single motors of one horsepower or less are permitted.
Facilities
The campground offers 50 individual campsites, four double sites and one group site that can host up to 80 people overnight. All sites are accessible. The sites are level with pull-through and back-in options for RVs. Restrooms, garbage bins and water faucets are available, however, there is no dump station at the facility.
Natural Features
Kaibab National Forest is nestled on the Colorado Plateau, an area of land that was uplifted by geologic processes. Dogtown Lake sits at an elevation of 7,050 feet. The lake got its name from the extensive prairie dog "towns" that once covered open areas near the lake. In spite of the name, this medium-sized body of water is surrounded by trees. Summer temperatures range from 50 degrees at night to 80-90 degrees during the day. Summer thunderstorms, known as the monsoon, can build up quickly, especially during July and August. Snow is common from December through March.
Nearby Attractions
Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim is just over one hour north of the campground. The cities of Williams and Flagstaff have amenities such as shops, restaurants and cultural and historic sites. From canyons to prairies, peaks to plateaus, Kaibab National Forest offers layers of opportunity for peace, solitude and discovery. Over 300 miles of trails, some clinging to the rims of the Grand Canyon, allow visitors to step off the beaten path into uncrowded landscapes. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.
What the agency tells you
This is a high elevation facility; use caution when traveling from lower elevations
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY. Double & Group sites: refer to Specific Site # for capacity limits.
Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.
No utility hookups.
Click here for more about Grand Canyon National Park
Click here for more about Kaibab National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Bears frequent the area; please obey all food storage rules and regulations. Check with your host for details.
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 55 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- 54
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…for RVs. Restrooms, garbage bins and water faucets are available, however, there is no dump station at…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Amphitheater
- Biking
- Boating
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 124th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 39 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:28 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$50 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.
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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:28 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
55 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 55 mapped sitesAll 55 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 55 of the 55 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DOGTOWN | 1 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 410 ft | 1.3 mi | $300 | |
| LOOP A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 141 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 141 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 66 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 66 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 118 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 78 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 78 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 56 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 56 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 74 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 105 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 60 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 013 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 60 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 132 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 142 ft | 1.0 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 91 ft | 1.0 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 81 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 65 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 65 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 49 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 021 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 61 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 022 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 49 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 023 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 76 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 51 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 025 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 51 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 68 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 027 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 68 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 028 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 73 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP A | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 73 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 135 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 031 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 135 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 173 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 96 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 034 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 96 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 109 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 036 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 109 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 037 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 148 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 038 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 173 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 039 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 77 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 040 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 77 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 83 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 042 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 82 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 043 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 178 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 044 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 94 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 109 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 046 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 94 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 047 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 86 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 048 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 86 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 049 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 137 ft | 1.1 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 050 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 73 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 051 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 73 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 052 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 92 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 053 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 85 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
| LOOP B | 054 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 143 ft | 1.2 mi | $30–$50 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 55 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Kaibab Lake Sites and Group AreasKaibab National Forest · 5.2 mi
WHITE HORSE LAKE CampgroundKaibab National Forest · 9.0 mi
Spring Valley Cabin & BunkhouseKaibab National Forest · 14 mi
Fernow CabinCoconino National Forest · 21 mi
Pine Flat Campground WestCoconino National Forest · 26 mi
Kendrick CabinCoconino National Forest · 26 miIn Williams, Arizona, turn south onto 4th Street (County Road 73) and drive about 5 miles to Forest Road 140. Turn left and proceed about 4 miles to Forest Road 132. Turn left and proceed 1 mile to Dogtown Campground. Forest Roads 140 and 132 are gravel roads.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Williams, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°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 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
Dogtown Lake Campground and Group is in Arizona’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Eli Crane (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →