Hazlett Hollow Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This is a relatively small, semi-primitive campground in the southern end of the Bradshaw Mountains in the Horsethief Basin Area. Ponderosa pine is the dominant vegetation type in the area. One of the most attractive and well-developed campgrounds in the southern Bradshaws. Most of the walls and walks throughout the campground were built of stone during the 1930s by the Civil Conservation Corp (CCC). This site may close early or open late, depending on snowfall. History of Hazlett Hollow Campground , researched and compiled by AARCHER, Inc. Keep reading
(1,523 KB PDF) View photos on Flickr Facilities 15 campsites with picnic tables, and grills 3-sided wooden camping shelters with concrete floors at each site No services available 2 vault toilets (1 is accessible) Drinking water is available during the open season. Garbage service RVs: Maximum vehicle length varies by site from 22-40 feet No RV hook-ups Drinking water is available for use on site, but not for filling RV water tanks High-clearance vehicle is recommended for those who plan to visit recreation sites in Horsethief Basin. Horsethief Basin Brocure (12.8 MB PDF)
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…2 vault toilets (1 is accessible) Drinking water is available during the open season. Garbage…”
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Turney Gulch GroupPrescott National Forest · 0.3 mi
Horsethief CabinPrescott National Forest · 0.7 mi
Upper Wolf Creek GroupPrescott National Forest · 22 mi
Sycamore CabinPrescott National Forest · 22 mi
Lower Wolf Creek CampgroundPrescott National Forest · 22 mi
Groom Creek Horse CampPrescott National Forest · 22 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Black Canyon City, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Hazlett Hollow 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 →