Frazier Group Campground
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
The campground overlooks Roosevelt Lake and is nestled in the saguaro cactus-studded Sonoran Desert. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to camping, horseback riders, hikers, and mountain bikers can access the Arizona National Scenic Trail from the campground via the Frazier Trail. There are many other trails in the area.
Facilities
Frazier's large open parking area accommodates trailers and pull vehicles arranged in a variety of parking configurations. Facilities include vault toilets, a shelter with group-sized picnic tables, grills, and fire rings, a watering trough, and water hydrants.
Natural Features
At an elevation of 2,200 feet, the group site has stunning views of the blue water and sunsets against three mountainous wilderness areas.
Nearby Attractions
Multiple opportunities for enjoying spectacular scenery and learning about the area's pre-history, history, flora, fauna, or geology include visiting Tonto National Monument cliff dwellings (National Park Service), driving portions of the Apache Trail Historic Road (State Hwy 88) and Desert to Tall Pines Scenic Road (State Hwy 288) or visiting the Tonto Basin Visitors Center.
What the agency tells you
No directional signs, ribbon flagging or other various methods will be approved for use on State Highway 188 or Forest Service roads accessing Frazier Group Site. No signs or advertising devices shall be erected on the area covered by this use agreement, without prior approval by the Forest Service as to location, design, size, color, and message.
Check in time is 2:00pm and check out time is 11:00am. Quiet Hours are from 10:00pm to 6:00am.
The representative will take reasonable measures to prevent and discourage vandalism or disorderly conduct, and when necessary, will call the appropriate law enforcement agency for assistance. For emergencies, call 911, or call the Gila County Sheriff's Office at 800-635-8017. For non-emergencies, call the Tonto Basin Ranger District at 602-225-5395.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Discharging firearms or any other implement capable of causing injury or damaging property is prohibited in or within 150 yards of this group site.
The assigned loops will be maintained to present a clean, neat, and orderly appearance. Trash will be disposed of in the provided trash receptacles, or as agreed to by representative and the Forest Service. If your group includes cigarette smokers, all cigarette butts will be properly disposed of in trash receptacles.
All campfires will be built in established fire rings or grills. If fire restrictions are in effect, these restrictions will be reserved by all members of the group.
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) prohibits connecting trailers and RVs to the Tonto Basin Ranger District campground water hydrants. This regulation is in place to protect the public water system and to prevent any potential for cross contamination
Fireworks are always prohibited on National Forest Land.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…configurations. Facilities include vault toilets, a shelter with group-sized picnic tables, grills,…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and fire rings, a watering trough, and water hydrants. Natural Features At an elevation of 2,200 feet,…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 200th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 4
Full this Saturdayread 16:43 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:43 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:43 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FRAIZER GROUP | GROUP | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 412 ft | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Frazier Horse CampgroundTonto National Forest · 0.1 mi
Windy Hill CampgroundTonto National Forest · 2.3 mi
Grapevine Group CampgroundTonto National Forest · 5.0 mi
Burnt Corral CampgroundTonto National Forest · 5.1 mi
Cholla CampgroundTonto National Forest · 6.2 mi
Schoolhouse Campground (AZ)Tonto National Forest · 6.8 miFrom Phoenix: Take State Hwy 87 / Beeline Highway north for about 75 miles to its junction with State Hwy 188. Turn right and follow State Hwy 188 for 33.5 miles to the site (just after the visitor center on the left, watch for campground sign).
From Mesa: Take State Hwy 87 / Beeline Highway north for about 61 miles to its junction with State Hwy 188. Turn right and follow State Hwy 188 for 33.5 miles to the site (just after the visitor center on the left, watch for campground sign).
From Globe area: Take State Hwy 188 north for about 30 miles to the site (just past the Roosevelt Work Center on the right, watch for campground sign). All routes are paved.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Roosevelt, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 59°F, day 85°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January 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
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
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
Frazier Group 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyElijah CraneU.S. Representative · Arizona’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMark KellyU.S. Senator · Arizona
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRuben GallegoU.S. Senator · Arizona
No contact form we could verify, so that link is their own site. Contact is inside it. Washington office: 202-224-4521.
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Frazier Group Campground, Tonto National Forest, Arizona
Dear Elijah Crane, I’m a constituent in Arizona’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Frazier Group Campground, Tonto National Forest, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Frazier Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Frazier Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Frazier Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Frazier Group Campground (Tonto National Forest, Arizona) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Frazier Group Campground, Tonto National Forest, Arizona
Dear Mark Kelly, I’m a constituent in Arizona. I tried to camp at Frazier Group Campground, Tonto National Forest, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Frazier Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Frazier Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Frazier Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Frazier Group Campground (Tonto National Forest, Arizona) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Frazier Group Campground, Tonto National Forest, Arizona
Dear Ruben Gallego, I’m a constituent in Arizona. I tried to camp at Frazier Group Campground, Tonto National Forest, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Frazier Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Frazier Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Frazier Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Frazier Group Campground (Tonto National Forest, Arizona) via campanac.com