Frazier Horse Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 15:46 UTC
- A night
- $16From, per site
- Sites
- 8All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Frazier Horse Campground is nestled into a Sonoran desert landscape at Roosevelt Lake, one of Arizona's most outstanding water-based recreation areas. The lake is the largest of four reservoirs within a 2-hour drive of Phoenix and Tucson. The facility has the first lakeside horse camp built in the Southwestern Region of the Forest Service. From the recreation site, trail users access the Arizona Trail, an 800-mile (1,287-kilometer), non-motorized trail. Keep reading
Recreation
Bring your horses and head out to the Arizona Trail right from camp via the Cottonwood trail. There are many other trails in the area but they require trailering your horses.
Facilities
Frazier Horse Campground is an equestrian campground and offers a vault toilet, horse drinker, potable water hydrant, and horse corrals.
Natural Features
Roosevelt Lake was dedicated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1911 and boasts 112 miles of shoreline and peaceful coves. When full, the lake provides 21,500 acres of surface water. Frazier Horse Campground is situated near the lake’s shoreline. Views of the blue water and sunsets against the Sierra Ancha, Salome, and Superstition Wilderness areas are a sight that keep many visitors coming back year after year. The area around Frazier Horse Campground is often alive with abundant wildlife such as mule deer, coyotes, geese, fox, javalina, and the occasional bald eagle.
Nearby Attractions
Discover two nearby National Scenic Byways (AZ Hwy 88 Apache Trail and AZ Hwy 288 Spines to Pines Highway). Local areas to consider around Frazier Horse Campground include Roosevelt Dam, Tonto National Monument, the Arizona Trail, endless miles of jeep trails, the Towns of Payson and Globe, and the Superstition, Sierra Ancha, and Four Peaks Wilderness areas. Don't forget to stop by the Tonto Basin Environmental Center to learn about the history of the area.
What the agency tells you
Frazier Horse Camp is for occupants with a horse(s) only.
Check in time is 2:00pm and check out time is 11:00am. Quiet hours are 10:00pm to 6:00am.
Maximum trailer length is 32'.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Gas is only located at both ends of the lake at the towns of Roosevelt and Tonto Basin, Arizona.
Any motorized watercraft or additional vehicles must purchase and display a separate watercraft sticker or Tonto Daily Pass. Additional vehicles are subject to overflow parking; space is not guaranteed. Additional vehicles include the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any double family campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. Motorcycles are considered vehicles. The Tonto Daily Pass or watercraft sticker are available for purchase at local participating businesses, the Tonto Basin Ranger District Office during business hours: Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., or purchase on-line
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 8 · 8 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…is an equestrian campground and offers a vault toilet, horse drinker, potable water hydrant, and horse…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…offers a vault toilet, horse drinker, potable water hydrant, and horse corrals. Natural Features…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Horse Camping
- Horseback riding
- Picnicking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 201st darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 4
12 of 16 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:46 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $16 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 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
8 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 8 mapped sitesAll 8 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 8 of the 8 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. 8 of the 8 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FRAIZER | 01 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 355 ft | 203 ft | $16 | |
| FRAIZER | 02 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 342 ft | 142 ft | $16 | |
| FRAIZER | 03 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 67 ft | 342 ft | 106 ft | $16 |
| FRAIZER | 04 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 354 ft | 105 ft | $16 | |
| FRAIZER | 05 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 378 ft | 145 ft | $16 | |
| FRAIZER | 06 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 399 ft | 200 ft | $16 | |
| FRAIZER | 07 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 408 ft | 265 ft | $16 | |
| FRAIZER | 08 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 159 ft | 268 ft | 337 ft | $16 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Frazier Group CampgroundTonto National Forest · 0.1 mi
Windy Hill CampgroundTonto National Forest · 2.4 mi
Burnt Corral CampgroundTonto National Forest · 5.0 mi
Grapevine Group CampgroundTonto National Forest · 5.1 mi
Cholla CampgroundTonto National Forest · 6.2 mi
Schoolhouse Campground (AZ)Tonto National Forest · 6.9 miThis site is 2 miles southeast of historic Roosevelt Dam.
From Mesa: Take State Route (SR) 87 (Beeline Highway) north for about 60 miles to its junction with SR 188. Turn right onto SR 188 for 35 miles to the site. The entire route is paved.
From the Globe area: Take SR 188 north for 28 miles to the site. The entire route is 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
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 Horse 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 →