Lakeview Campground (AZ)
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 3130 on recreation.gov
- Season
- – October 11Closes October 11. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lakeview Campground is a tent camper's paradise with its terraced hillside campsites tucked in amongst old ponderosa pines. With all the easy forest and lake access, this is also a great place for wildlife watchers. Many visitors report seeing bald eagle, osprey, migratory waterfowl, great blue heron, elk and mule deer. Keep reading
Recreation
Ideal for hiking, bird watching, fishing, wildlife watching.
Facilities
The campground has 30 campsites. 15 sites are reservable and 15 sites are dedicated as first-come-first-served sites. Each site has provided picnic tables, fire rings and cooking grills. The campground provides drinking water, has accessible vault type toilets and a boat ramp for universal access fishing at Lake Mary picnic area. Wood memorial trail links Lakeview campground with Lake Mary picnic area. Trash service is provided for campers only. Lakeview campground is pet friendly. Pets must always be restrained or on a leash. Camp host lives on site.
Natural Features
Woodland environment with gravel roads and gentle hillsides. Glimpses of beautiful Lake Mary can be enjoyed through the abundant pine. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 774-9671.
Nearby Attractions
Lake Mary provides many water activities for kayakers, boaters and is very popular for paddle boarding. The Lake Mary picnic area is a comfortable and beautiful spot to enjoy the lake.
What the agency tells you
No utility hookups. No horses allowed in the campground. Two vehicles per campsite. A fee of $10 per night will be collected at the campground for the second vehicle. Discount cards are not accepted for second vehicle fees. Tents and small motorhomes are permitted. 2 tents maximum per site Ice for sale Firewood $10.00 per bundle. Drinking water Vault toilets
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 31 · 21 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “The campground provides drinking water, has accessible vault type toilets and a boat ramp for universal access fishing at Lake Mary picnic area.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…cooking grills. The campground provides drinking water, has accessible vault type toilets and a boat ramp…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Night sky · 137th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 35 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 30 of the 31 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“A fee of $10 per night will be collected at the campground for the second vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 31 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 30 of the 31 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. 30 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Lakeview | 0 | type not stated | |||||
| Lakeview | 1 | tent only nonelectric | 73 ft | 820 ft | 129 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 69 ft | 913 ft | 64 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 11 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 991 ft | 100 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 66 ft | 1,008 ft | 195 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 13 | tent only nonelectric | 89 ft | 1,016 ft | 279 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 66 ft | 942 ft | 173 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 74 ft | 999 ft | 177 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 16 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 74 ft | 935 ft | 206 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 17 | tent only nonelectric | 38 ft | 90 ft | 908 ft | 56 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 18 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 28 ft | 896 ft | 98 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 19 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 28 ft | 884 ft | 125 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 2 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 767 ft | 84 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 20 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 966 ft | 161 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 21 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 53 ft | 928 ft | 198 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 22 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 69 ft | 861 ft | 229 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 23 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 25 ft | 831 ft | 174 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 24 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 809 ft | 197 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 25 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | 90 ft | 822 ft | 133 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 65 ft | 773 ft | 242 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 27 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 65 ft | 827 ft | 251 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 28 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 92 ft | 777 ft | 341 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 29 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 69 ft | 676 ft | 152 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 3 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 797 ft | 142 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 30 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 69 ft | 745 ft | 162 ft | $30 |
| Lakeview | 4 | tent only nonelectric | 109 ft | 964 ft | 335 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 5 | tent only nonelectric | 97 ft | 961 ft | 227 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 6 | tent only nonelectric | 53 ft | 974 ft | 141 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 7 | tent only nonelectric | 53 ft | 973 ft | 95 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 8 | tent only nonelectric | 74 ft | 974 ft | 58 ft | $30 | |
| Lakeview | 9 | tent only nonelectric | 69 ft | 896 ft | 20 ft | $30 |
25 of 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
PinegroveCoconino National Forest · 3.1 mi
Pine Grove CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 3.1 mi
Ashurst LakeCoconino National Forest · 5.9 mi
Forked Pine CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 6.2 mi
Canyon VistaCoconino National Forest · 7.1 mi
Dairy SpringsCoconino National Forest · 7.6 mi13 miles from I-17 south-east of Flagstaff on Forest Highway 3 (Lake Mary Road) on your left
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mountainaire, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
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
Lakeview Campground (AZ) 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 →