U.S. Forest Service · Prescott National Forest · AZ
Lower Wolf Creek Campground
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Photos · U.S. Forest Service
6,000 ftElevation
1,931 ftWater · Wolf Creek
4 miS of Prescott, AZ
43%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 205th darkest of 262 in AZ
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located on the banks of Wolf Creek, Arizona walnut and live-oaks are interspersed among the ponderosa pines in this boulder-strewn campground that was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the late 1930s. Keep reading
Facilities
20 campsites with picnic tables, and fire rings with grills No drinking water Vault toilets Garbage service
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “No drinking water Vault toilets Garbage service”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…tables, and fire rings with grills No drinking water Vault toilets Garbage service”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 13 km away
- Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (13 km) · Oct 13, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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 · 3
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.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
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 · 4
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 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Coordinate34.45458, -112.45975
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
Upper Wolf Creek GroupPrescott National Forest · 0.4 mi
Groom Creek Horse CampPrescott National Forest · 1.3 mi
Groom Creek SchoolhousePrescott National Forest · 1.8 mi
White Spar CampgroundPrescott National Forest · 3.7 mi
Eagle Ridge Group CampgroundPrescott National Forest · 5.6 mi
Hilltop Campground (AZ)Prescott National Forest · 5.7 mi
Upper Wolf Creek GroupPrescott National Forest · 0.4 miGroom Creek Horse CampPrescott National Forest · 1.3 miGroom Creek SchoolhousePrescott National Forest · 1.8 miWhite Spar CampgroundPrescott National Forest · 3.7 miEagle Ridge Group CampgroundPrescott National Forest · 5.6 miHilltop Campground (AZ)Prescott National Forest · 5.7 miSource: 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
Today57°Mostly Cloudy then Chance Rain Showers44% rain
Tonight47°Rain Showers Likely58% rain
Sunday59°Chance Rain Showers43% rain
Sunday Night48°Slight Chance Rain Showers18% rain
NWS forecast for Prescott, AZ
Source: National Weather Service, FGZ forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
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.
100°32°10°
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: PRESCOTT, AZ (USC00026796), 8 miles away and 795 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Lower Wolf Creek 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: 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.
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
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (13 km) · Oct 13, 2026
Reported by: USA National Phenology Network (Nature's Notebook), reported patchy color · Oct 13, 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.