Forked Pine Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Good fishing and excellent views of the San Francisco Peaks characterize this lakeside campground. Ashurst Lake is stocked with trout and boasts enough wind for windsurfing. Both Ashurst Lake and Forked Pine Campgrounds hug the lakeshore with campsites huddled in a picturesque stand of gnarly old juniper trees and pinyon pines. One of Ashurst Lake's most notable characteristics is it ability to hold a high water level in drought years. That can be very important here in northern Arizona where less resilient lakes sometimes dry up. Keep reading
In addition to fishing and board sailing, the lake offers excellent opportunities for birdwatching during the spring waterfowl migration. For a special treat look for white-faced ibises grazing in the shallows along with the cinnamon teal, pintails and other ducks. Bald eagles and osprey can also be seen in the area, along with a number of species of hawks and songbirds. A graveled road to the lake and graveled road that surrounds most of the lake provides convenient access for most passenger vehicles and bicycles. Rustic gravel and “two-track” roads in the area offer some great opportunities to mountain bike or walk out into the surrounding juniper/ponderosa mixed forest for some wildlife viewing and open spaces. The San Francisco Peaks stand majestically on the horizon providing a grand display of Arizona’s volcanic past.
Recreation
The lake is stocked with Trout making for good fishing. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 774-9671.
What the agency tells you
To access this campground you take a left at the end of Ashurst Road, which deadends into Forked Pine Campground. It is located on the other side of Lake Ashurst.
Forked Pine Campground has 24 sites, each with picnic table and campfire ring.
Check in - 2:00pm Check out - 11:00am
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Firewood is available for sale from Host site for $10.00/bundle.
The entrance to this campground is located up a 4-mile dirt road that is graded and maintained.
This campground sits on Ashurst Lake which is stocked with trout.
There is cell service at the campground.
Extra vehicle fee of $10.00 per night of stay on the second vehicle in each single family campsite provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 32 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Little
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 24 of 24 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER (SEASONAL) on 24 of 24 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Night sky · 86th 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
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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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee of $10.00 per night of stay on the second vehicle in each single family campsite provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site.” · 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 24 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 24 of the 24 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 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Forked Pine | 01 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 61 ft | 1.3 mi | 116 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 02 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 50 ft | 1.3 mi | 175 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 03 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 50 ft | 1.3 mi | 186 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 04 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 61 ft | 1.3 mi | 242 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 05 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 80 ft | 1.3 mi | 287 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 06 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 114 ft | 1.3 mi | 245 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 07 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 70 ft | 1.3 mi | 153 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 08 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 70 ft | 1.3 mi | 85 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 09 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 102 ft | 1.3 mi | 346 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 10 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 63 ft | 1.3 mi | 255 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 11 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 58 ft | 1.3 mi | 200 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 12 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 58 ft | 1.3 mi | 245 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 13 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 57 ft | 1.3 mi | 71 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 14 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 57 ft | 1.3 mi | 128 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 15 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 75 ft | 1.3 mi | 196 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 16 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 53 ft | 1.3 mi | 52 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 17 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 53 ft | 1.3 mi | 105 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 18 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 45 ft | 1.3 mi | 231 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 19 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 45 ft | 1.3 mi | 261 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 20 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 91 ft | 1.3 mi | 367 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 21 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 91 ft | 1.3 mi | 440 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 22 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 85 ft | 1.3 mi | 445 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 23 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 83 ft | 1.3 mi | 369 ft | $27 |
| Forked Pine | 24 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 83 ft | 1.3 mi | 370 ft | $27 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Ashurst LakeCoconino National Forest · 0.5 mi
Pine Grove CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 3.5 mi
PinegroveCoconino National Forest · 3.7 mi
Lakeview Campground (AZ)Coconino National Forest · 6.2 mi
Dairy SpringsCoconino National Forest · 6.6 mi
Double SpringsCoconino National Forest · 7.6 miThe 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 35°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Forked Pine Campground 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 →