Moqui Group Campground
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Sites
- 3All of them booked ahead
- Season
- – September 22Closes September 22. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Moqui Group Campground sits in a beautiful setting surrounded by ponderosa, oak, and aspen at an elevation of 6,915'. The campground consists of 3 individual group sites: Simmons, Spooner, and Ernst. Each site can accomodate up to 50 people offering picnic tables, fire rings, grills, vault tolets, trash collections, and piped drinking water. For groups larger than 50 people, multiple sites can be reserved. The Simmons and Spooner Group sites can each accomodate a maximum of 3 trailers or RV's up to 22'. The Earnst Group site is best suited for tents and smaller equipment. Keep reading
Recreation
Many visitors spend time relaxing and exploring the area. The nearby C.C. Cragin Reservoir and Knoll Lake offer opportunities for water based recreation, while the Arizona National Scenic Trail, General Crook National Recreation Trail, and historic Cabin Loop Trail System offer opportunities for hikers, bicyclist, and equestrian users. There are also several Fire Lookout Towers in the area.
Facilities
The group sites include fire rings, grills, picnic tables, vault toilets, trash collection, and piped drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground is in a forested setting. The nearby Mogollon Rim is one of the most striking geologic features in the state. This steep escarpment, measured in thousands of feet, stretches from New Mexico diagonally accross two thirds of Arizona and offers sweeping views of the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
The community of Happy Jack, Arizona has a gas station, two convenience stores and two restaurants.
What the agency tells you
Check-in time is 2 p.m.; check-out time is 12 p.m.
No utility hookups or dump station
Trash service is provided
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Horses are not allowed in the campground
No amplified music or public address systems allowed
Off-road vehicles may only be driven to enter and leave the campground
Campground roads and parking spurs are gravel
Vehicles must remain on gravelled surfaces
RV's and Trailers up to 22' are allowed at Simmons and Spooner 3 maximun at each site
Ernst is limited to tents, pop-up campers, camper vans, and pickup campers
Pets must be on a leash or confined at all times and never left unattended
Host on-site
Coconino National Forest Click here for more information on Coconino National Forest
Don't Move Firewood Prevent the spread of tree killing pests-s bobtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 3 · 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 3 of 3 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 3 of 3 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Amphitheater
- Backpacking
- Birding
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Stargazing
- Wildlife viewing
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.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 3 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 3 of the 3 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| 1 | Moqui Group Campground Ernst | group standard nonelectric | yes | 284 ft | 2,890 ft | $85 |
| 1 | Moqui Group Campground Simmons | group standard nonelectric | yes | 284 ft | 3,164 ft | $85 |
| 1 | Moqui Group Campground Spooner | group standard nonelectric | yes | 392 ft | 3,093 ft | $85 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rock Crossing Campground (AZ)Coconino National Forest · 2.5 miClints Well CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 7.2 mi
Long Valley Group CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 9.1 mi
Elks Group CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 9.5 miKehl Springs CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 13 miFrom Flagstaff, Arizona, drive 55 miles south on FH 3 (Lake Mary Road) to AZ 87 at Clints Well. Turn left onto AZ 87 Drive approximately 9 miles to milepost 298.8. Turn right on FR 138 and drive about one mile to the campground.
From Payson, Arizona, drive 46 miles north on AZ 87 toward Winslow. Turn right onto FR 138 and drive about one mile to the campground.
GPS Coordinates 34°35'46.1"N 111°11'55.2"W
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Blue Ridge, AZ
Typical weather
Typical September night 41°F, day 76°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 41°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
Moqui Group 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 →