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U.S. Forest Service · Apache National Forest · AZ

Hoyer

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 15 opens May 15.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $38From, per site
Sites: 90All of them booked ahead

Photos · Conservation Legacy

45 ftLongest rig

8,280 ftElevation

709 ftWater · Rosey Creek

6.5 miSW of Eagar, AZ

35%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Hoyer Campground is situated among the ponderosa pine forests of eastern Arizona, and is one of the most popular campgrounds in the area for families and seniors. Is is less than a mile from Greer Lakes in the middle of the Apache National Forest. Hiking and fishing are especially popular. Keep reading

Recreation

Greer Lakes and the Little Colorado River are within walking distance for avid anglers seeking out rainbow, cutthroat, brook and brown trout. Hikers can check out several trails within a short drive. Those wishing to relax on a scenic drive can explore the White Mountain and Coronado Trail Scenic Byways. Curious campers can take part in guided nature walks around the lake or attend educational programs at the facility's amphitheater on Saturday evenings during the summer.

Facilities

This large facility contains nearly 100 campsites. Sites are shaded and lie on a bed of pine needles or grass. Roads are gravel. The shower facilities and dump station are open. Campers can also purchase bundled firewood and ice from the on-site campground host.

Natural Features

The campground sits in a heavily forested pine and aspen forest at an elevation of 8,300 feet in the scenic and remote White Mountains. Chipmunks and Abert's squirrels are common campground residents, and mule deer and elk inhabit the area as well. The nearby reservoir is one of three area lakes on the Little Colorado River. Summer temperatures can be very pleasant because of the elevation. However, the rainy season often brings afternoon thunderstorms from late June through August. Visitors should come prepared for rain and cool nighttime temperatures. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.

Nearby Attractions

The closest towns are Greer and Springerville, Arizona. Campers can find gas, groceries, restaurants and equipment rentals in Greer. Visitors can explore endless vistas and take part in many outdoor activities in the surrounding Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, which encompasses 2 million acres of magnificent mountain country in east-central Arizona and New Mexico.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY.

Rule

Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.

Rule

Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.

Everything else this campground posts · 6

Rule

FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.

Rule

Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.

Rule

Bears frequent the area; please obey all food storage rules and regulations. Check with your host for details.

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.

Rule

Click here for more information on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest

Rule

This is a high elevation facility, use caution when traveling from lower elevations.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 90
Hookups: None
Longest rig: 45 ft
Paved pads: 80 of 90
Accessible sites: 1
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “The shower facilities and dump station are open.”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Firewood: Sold here

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, River; Picnicking
Night sky · 43rd darkest of 262 in AZ: Bortle 2
Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 23 km away: Peak color

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (23 km) · Oct 4, 2026

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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 15, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 15, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

A night$38plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$84DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

Watch for a cancellation

Full? Watch it.

One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night$38

Standard Nonelectric$38

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Sep 18, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$46

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$84

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $38 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

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

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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

91 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 90 mapped sites

63 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomBear Loop 075 157 ftGrouse Loop 036 113 ftBeaver Loop 039 108 ftGrouse Loop 035 104 ftWildcat Loop 071 103 ft

Least roomBear Loop 090 30 ftBear Loop 091 30 ftBeaver Loop 043 31 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 91 records

90 of 91 records located

Standard90

075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 087 088 089 090 091 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 90 of the 91 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


Bear Loop	075	standard nonelectric	40 ft		157 ft	1,529 ft	$38
Bear Loop	076	standard nonelectric	40 ft		72 ft	1,681 ft	$38
Bear Loop	077	standard nonelectric	40 ft		72 ft	1,703 ft	$38
Bear Loop	078	standard nonelectric	45 ft		46 ft	1,801 ft	$38
Bear Loop	079	standard nonelectric	40 ft		46 ft	1,782 ft	$38
Bear Loop	080	standard nonelectric	45 ft		43 ft	1,857 ft	$38
Bear Loop	081	standard nonelectric	40 ft		43 ft	1,828 ft	$38
Bear Loop	082	standard nonelectric	40 ft		97 ft	1,874 ft	$38
Bear Loop	083	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes	63 ft	1,768 ft	$38
Bear Loop	084	standard nonelectric	40 ft		60 ft	1,732 ft	$38
Bear Loop	085	standard nonelectric	40 ft		60 ft	1,674 ft	$38
Bear Loop	087	standard nonelectric	40 ft		62 ft	1,582 ft	$38
Bear Loop	088	standard nonelectric			40 ft	1,561 ft	$38
Bear Loop	089	standard nonelectric	40 ft		40 ft	1,530 ft	$38
Bear Loop	090	standard nonelectric	45 ft		29 ft	1,431 ft	$38
Bear Loop	091	standard nonelectric	40 ft		29 ft	1,438 ft	$38
Beaver Loop	039	standard nonelectric	45 ft		108 ft	701 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	040	standard nonelectric	45 ft		43 ft	602 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	041	standard nonelectric	40 ft		43 ft	577 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	042	standard nonelectric	45 ft		49 ft	535 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	043	standard nonelectric	40 ft		31 ft	425 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	044	standard nonelectric	45 ft		31 ft	416 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	045	standard nonelectric	35 ft		71 ft	326 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	046	standard nonelectric	35 ft		56 ft	265 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	047	standard nonelectric	40 ft		56 ft	232 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	048	standard nonelectric	45 ft		98 ft	185 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	049	standard nonelectric	45 ft		93 ft	223 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	050	standard nonelectric	45 ft		93 ft	304 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	051	standard nonelectric	45 ft		61 ft	387 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	052	standard nonelectric	45 ft		61 ft	449 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	053	standard nonelectric	45 ft		53 ft	513 ftBenny Creek	$38
Beaver Loop	054	standard nonelectric	45 ft		53 ft	510 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	011	standard nonelectric	40 ft		59 ft	1,034 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	012	standard nonelectric	40 ft		59 ft	1,023 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	013	standard nonelectric	40 ft		41 ft	946 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	014	standard nonelectric	45 ft		41 ft	937 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	015	standard nonelectric	45 ft		63 ft	890 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	016	standard nonelectric	35 ft		43 ft	922 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	017	standard nonelectric	45 ft		43 ft	914 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	018	standard nonelectric	45 ft		57 ft	961 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	019	standard nonelectric	45 ft		93 ft	983 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	020	standard nonelectric	40 ft		63 ft	1,032 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	021	standard nonelectric	45 ft		58 ft	979 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	022	standard nonelectric	35 ft		58 ft	926 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	023	standard nonelectric	40 ft		35 ft	869 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	024	standard nonelectric	40 ft		35 ft	848 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	025	standard nonelectric	40 ft		87 ft	777 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	026	standard nonelectric	40 ft		60 ft	729 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	027	standard nonelectric	40 ft		56 ft	726 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	028	standard nonelectric	40 ft		56 ft	678 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	029	standard nonelectric	45 ft		46 ft	810 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	030	standard nonelectric	35 ft		46 ft	833 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	031	standard nonelectric	45 ft		55 ft	966 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	032	standard nonelectric	35 ft		55 ft	993 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	033	standard nonelectric	45 ft		77 ft	1,049 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	034	standard nonelectric	40 ft		77 ft	1,102 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	035	standard nonelectric	40 ft		104 ft	1,150 ftBenny Creek	$38
Grouse Loop	036	standard nonelectric	45 ft		113 ft	1,153 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	037	standard nonelectric	45 ft		97 ft	1,210 ft	$38
Grouse Loop	038	standard nonelectric	45 ft		88 ft	1,113 ft	$38
HOYER	001	standard nonelectric			76 ft	953 ft	$38
HOYER	002	standard nonelectric			62 ft	871 ft	$38
HOYER	003	standard nonelectric			62 ft	815 ft	$38
HOYER	004	standard nonelectric			55 ft	777 ft	$38
HOYER	005	standard nonelectric			55 ft	799 ft	$38
HOYER	006	standard nonelectric			70 ft	858 ft	$38
HOYER	007	standard nonelectric			68 ft	928 ft	$38
HOYER	008	standard nonelectric			68 ft	985 ft	$38
HOYER	009	standard nonelectric			65 ft	1,021 ft	$38
HOYER	010	standard nonelectric			65 ft	1,005 ft	$38
HOYER	XXX	unnamed record		yes			$38
Wildcat Loop	055	standard nonelectric	45 ft		98 ft	1,418 ft	$38
Wildcat Loop	056	standard nonelectric	40 ft		91 ft	1,384 ft	$38
Wildcat Loop	057	standard nonelectric	35 ft		82 ft	1,458 ft	$38
Wildcat Loop	058	standard nonelectric	40 ft		76 ft	1,394 ft	$38
Wildcat Loop	059	standard nonelectric	40 ft		76 ft	1,467 ft	$38
Wildcat Loop	060	standard nonelectric	40 ft		103 ft	1,375 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	061	standard nonelectric	45 ft		84 ft	1,256 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	062	standard nonelectric	40 ft		84 ft	1,214 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	063	standard nonelectric	45 ft		87 ft	1,131 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	064	standard nonelectric	35 ft		83 ft	1,109 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	065	standard nonelectric	40 ft		83 ft	1,041 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	066	standard nonelectric	40 ft		74 ft	997 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	067	standard nonelectric	45 ft		74 ft	950 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	068	standard nonelectric	35 ft		93 ft	872 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	069	standard nonelectric	40 ft		78 ft	816 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	070	standard nonelectric	45 ft		78 ft	738 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	071	standard nonelectric	45 ft		103 ft	652 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	072	standard nonelectric	40 ft		82 ft	664 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	073	standard nonelectric	45 ft		82 ft	586 ftBenny Creek	$38
Wildcat Loop	074	standard nonelectric	45 ft		82 ft	664 ftBenny Creek	$38

The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.

The records with no site name: Derived by CAMPANAC from the agency’s own campsite records: recreation.gov files some overnight records with no site name, only a row of X characters. A block is read as the campground’s own sites, filed without names, only where the agency types those records as campsites rather than MANAGEMENT, gives each one a coordinate, and their numbering continues the campground’s own numbered sites with no gap. Everything else is left uncounted, and where the evidence doesn’t decide the record is counted as no kind of site rather than guessed at · Sep 12, 2026

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.

25 of 91 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate34.04333, -109.45861

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone928-735-7313

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Benny Creek Group AreaApache National Forest · 0.6 mi Rolfe C. Hoyer CampgroundApache National Forest · 0.7 mi

WinnApache National Forest · 5.6 mi

BrookcharApache National Forest · 12 mi

Rainbow (AZ)Apache National Forest · 12 mi

CutthroatApache National Forest · 12 mi

Getting there

From Show Low, Arizona, take Highway 260 southeast 42 miles to Highway 373. Take Highway 373 south 3 miles to the campground, which is on the right.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon56°Sunny

Tonight36°Mostly Clear1% rain

Saturday58°Partly Sunny9% rain

Saturday Night41°Chance Rain Showers33% rain

NWS forecast for Greer, AZ

Source: National Weather Service, FGZ forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 30°F, day 61°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

80°32°0°

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.

Measured at: GREER, AZ (USC00023683), 2 miles away and at about the same elevation

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Hoyer 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 90 of the 90 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 12, 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, taken as the median across the 90 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.046 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 262 rated federal campgrounds in Arizona · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (23 km) · Oct 4, 2026

Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported peak color · Oct 4, 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: Greer, AZ, 1.9 mi N (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026