Double Springs
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
- Season
- – October 11Closes October 11. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Double Springs Campground is an “old fashion” campground, originally built in the 1930’s, and has sites nestled in a beautiful draw filled with cool grass, ponderosa pine and Gambel oak. Keep reading
Facilities
15 single-unit sites by reservations only.
Natural Features
Relax and take in the nostalgia of this historic campground or hike the Lake View Trail (2 miles one way), which originates at here. This trail leads to overlooks providing view of nearby Mormon Lake and the surrounding forests and volcanoes. Campground roads and parking spurs are gravel. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 774-9671.
What the agency tells you
Two vehicles per campsite. A fee of $10 per night will be collected at the campground for the second vehicle. Discount cards are not accepted for second vehicle fees.
Check-in time is 2 p.m.; check-out time is 11 a.m.
No hookups
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Camphost living on site
No horses allowed
Two tents allowed per site
Firewood ($10.00/bundle) and Ice ($5.00/bag) are available for sale at Dairy Springs Campground Camp Host site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- PIT TOILETS on 8 of 15 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 8 of 15 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Night sky · 99th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 3
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.
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
“A fee of $10 per night will be collected at the campground for the second vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $27 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites
All 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Double Springs | 01 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 03 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 04 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 05 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 07 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 08 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 09 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 10 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 11 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 12 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 13 | standard nonelectric | 14 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | $27 |
| Double Springs | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 22 ft | $27 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Dairy SpringsCoconino National Forest · 1.1 mi
PinegroveCoconino National Forest · 6.3 mi
Pine Grove CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 6.4 mi
Ashurst LakeCoconino National Forest · 7.2 mi
Forked Pine CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 7.6 mi
Lakeview Campground (AZ)Coconino National Forest · 8.6 miDrive south from Flagstaff 20 miles on Forest Highway 3 (Lake Mary Road) to the intersection of Forest Road 90. Turn west on FR 90 and drive 4.6 miles to Double Springs.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mormon Lake, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 66°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 31°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Double Springs 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 →