U.S. Forest Service · Sitgreaves National Forest · AZ
Gentry Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- Season
- April 29Opens April 29. No closing date published.
7,700 ftElevation
1.6 miWater · Wilson Tank, a pond
9.8 miSW of Heber-Overgaard, AZ
41%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 53rd darkest of 262 in AZ
Opens April 29. No closing date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
The campground is set among the ponderosa pines at the base of Gentry Fire Lookout. The campground consists of 5 individual family sites or can be reserved and rented in its entirety as a group site for up to 75 people. View a map of this campground.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itVista RecreationA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Servicethe operator link
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Single site non-electrical $18 (when not reserved), up to 8 people and 1 vehicle.
Group site non-electrical $90, up to 50 people and 6 vehicles.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$12
“$12 extra vehicle charge.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
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Black Canyon Rim Campground (Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, AZ)Sitgreaves National Forest · 1.9 miValentine Ridge Dispersed Camping AreaTonto National Forest · 6.3 miCanyon PointSitgreaves National Forest · 6.7 miCamp Shadow Pines Organization SiteSitgreaves National Forest · 8.7 miFr 171 CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 8.9 miSinkhole CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 9.9 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight36°Mostly Clear
Saturday54°Partly Sunny14% rain
Saturday Night41°Chance Rain Showers46% rain
Sunday54°Chance Rain Showers45% rain
NWS forecast for Forest Lakes, AZ
Source: National Weather Service, FGZ forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical April night 32°F, day 62°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°32°10°
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.
Measured at: PINETOP 2E, AZ (USC00026601), 47 miles away and 500 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Gentry 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Forest Lakes, AZ, 3.9 mi ESE (a census designated place). Straight line.