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

Pinegrove

ReservableOut of season, no booking; October 30 opens April 30.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $34From, per site
Sites: 6846 on recreation.gov

Photos · RRM

42 ftLongest rig

6,940 ftElevation

1,827 ftWater · an unnamed pond

8.4 miSE of Mountainaire, AZ

39%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices

In the agency’s own words

Pinegrove Campground sits in the lush Coconino National Forest of northern Arizona, offering visitors countless recreation opportunities set in a stunning landscape. Keep reading

Recreation

Nearby Upper and Lower Lake Mary, Ashurst, Marshall and Kinnikinick Lakes serve as a recreational focus for this campground. All are stocked with fish including trout, bass and channel catfish. Upper Lake Mary is popular with power boaters, and Ashurst attracts a following of windsurfers along with anglers and boaters. Several excellent hiking and biking trails are located within a short drive. Visitors also enjoy wildlife viewing and picnicking.

Facilities

The campground is comprised of 46 spacious individual sites. The facility provides coin-operated showers, picnic tables, campfire rings, cooking grills, drinking water and accessible flush toilets. There are boat ramps at the lakes, as well as accessible fishing access at Lake Mary Narrows.

Natural Features

Coconino National Forest's 1.8 million acres offer clear lakes, red rock cliffs, desert basins and canopies of pine trees. The lakes around these forested campgrounds are used as a stopover for migrating waterfowl, a wintering site for rare bald eagles and a feeding ground for resident ospreys. The area is also home to a considerable number of elk and mule deer. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 774-9671.

Nearby Attractions

The nearest town is Flagstaff, Arizona, about 20 miles away. Camping supplies, groceries, gas, restaurants, shopping and more are available.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

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.

Rule

Dump station use is free for campers and $14 for day visitors. ALERT: Dump station is closed for the remainder of the 2026 season.

Rule

This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations

Everything else this campground posts · 9

Rule

Check-in time is 2:00 p.m.; check-out time is 11:00 a.m.

Rule

No hookups available

Rule

Horses are not permitted

Rule

Motorbikes may only be used for entering or leaving campsite

Rule

No amplified music or public address systems allowed

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

One RV or two tents permitted per site

Rule

Fee for shower usage is $7.00. ALERT: showers are closed for the remainder of the 2026 season.

Rule

Firewood for sale at $10.00 per bundle. Ice for sale at $5.00/bag.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 68
Hookups: None
Longest rig: 42 ft
Accessible sites: 12
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…grills, drinking water and accessible flush toilets. There are boat ramps at the lakes, as well as…”
Showers: Coin Showers; “The facility provides coin-operated showers, picnic tables, campfire rings, cooking grills, drinking water and accessible flush toilets.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…tables, campfire rings, cooking grills, drinking water and accessible flush toilets. There are boat ramps…”
Boat ramp: Yes

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: Lake; Biking; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 106th darkest of 262 in AZ: Bortle 3
Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 40 km away: Patchy 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 (40 km) · Oct 14, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 46 of the 68 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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On October 30, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 30, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

A night$34plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$76DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

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

Runs itVista RecreationA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Servicethe operator link

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 · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night$34

Standard Nonelectric$34

Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 1, 2026 to Oct 11, 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 this campground addsits own record

Extra vehicle$10

“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

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$42

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$76

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $34 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 · 6

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 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

What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

69 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 24 mapped sites

114 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop PINE 035 153 ftLoop PINE 037 132 ftLoop PINE 034 131 ftLoop PINE 021 126 ftLoop PINE 022 120 ft

Least roomLoop PINE 018 72 ftLoop PINE 020 72 ftLoop PINE 016 74 ft

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

All 69 records

46 of 69 records located

Standard24Type not stated22

001 0010 0011 0012 0013 0014 0015 002 003 004 0040 0041 0042 0043 0044 0045 0046 005 006 007 008 009 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

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

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 46 of the 69 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. 68 of the 69 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.


MANAGEMENT SITES	001	type not stated				1,571 ft	253 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0010	type not stated				1,687 ft	19 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0011	type not stated				1,800 ft	150 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0012	type not stated				1,721 ft	185 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0013	type not stated				1,786 ft	206 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0014	type not stated				1,748 ft	199 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0015	type not stated				1,834 ft	286 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	002	type not stated				1,635 ft	107 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	003	type not stated				1,694 ft	242 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	004	type not stated				1,730 ft	115 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0040	type not stated				1,508 ft	96 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0041	type not stated				1,412 ft	267 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0042	type not stated				1,490 ft	192 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0043	type not stated				1,388 ft	302 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0044	type not stated				1,481 ft	210 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0045	type not stated				1,415 ft	312 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	0046	type not stated				1,508 ft	234 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	005	type not stated				1,843 ft	233 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	006	type not stated				1,827 ft	164 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	007	type not stated				1,787 ft	110 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	008	type not stated				1,954 ft	296 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	009	type not stated				1,903 ft	224 ft	$34
MANAGEMENT SITES	XXX	unnamed record	42 ft	yes				$34
PINE	001	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	002	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	003	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	004	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	005	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	006	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	007	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	008	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	009	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes				$34
PINE	010	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	011	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes				$34
PINE	012	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	013	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes				$34
PINE	014	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	015	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes				$34
PINE	016	standard nonelectric	42 ft		74 ft	1,898 ft	347 ft	$34
PINE	017	standard nonelectric	32 ft		96 ft	1,789 ft	240 ft	$34
PINE	018	standard nonelectric	42 ft		72 ft	1,939 ft	395 ft	$34
PINE	019	standard nonelectric	42 ft		78 ft	1,991 ft	459 ft	$34
PINE	020	standard nonelectric	42 ft		72 ft	1,869 ft	330 ft	$34
PINE	021	standard nonelectric	42 ft		126 ft	1,891 ft	365 ft	$34
PINE	022	standard nonelectric	42 ft		121 ft	2,029 ft	410 ft	$34
PINE	023	standard nonelectric	42 ft		93 ft	2,041 ft	330 ft	$34
PINE	024	standard nonelectric	42 ft		114 ft	1,928 ft	264 ft	$34
PINE	025	standard nonelectric	42 ft		86 ft	2,079 ft	322 ft	$34
PINE	026	standard nonelectric	42 ft		96 ft	1,983 ft	233 ft	$34
PINE	027	standard nonelectric	42 ft		86 ft	2,102 ft	322 ft	$34
PINE	028	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes	115 ft	2,040 ft	261 ft	$34
PINE	029	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes	82 ft	1,944 ft	197 ft	$34
PINE	030	standard nonelectric	42 ft		82 ft	1,867 ft	161 ft	$34
PINE	031	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes	113 ft	1,760 ft	171 ft	$34
PINE	032	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes	119 ft	1,565 ft	220 ft	$34
PINE	033	standard nonelectric	42 ft		119 ft	1,681 ft	113 ft	$34
PINE	034	standard nonelectric	42 ft		130 ft	1,496 ft	321 ft	$34
PINE	035	standard nonelectric	42 ft		153 ft	1,642 ft	245 ft	$34
PINE	036	standard nonelectric	42 ft		116 ft	1,457 ft	266 ft	$34
PINE	037	standard nonelectric	42 ft		132 ft	1,563 ft	13 ft	$34
PINE	038	standard nonelectric	42 ft		116 ft	1,415 ft	195 ft	$34
PINE	039	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes	118 ft	1,432 ft	122 ft	$34
PINE	040	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes				$34
PINE	041	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes				$34
PINE	042	standard nonelectric	42 ft	yes				$34
PINE	043	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	044	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	045	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34
PINE	046	standard nonelectric	42 ft					$34

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 · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 69 listed

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

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions

Coordinate35.03000, -111.46333

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Pine Grove CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 0.1 mi

Lakeview Campground (AZ)Coconino National Forest · 3.1 mi

Ashurst LakeCoconino National Forest · 3.2 mi

Forked Pine CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 3.7 mi

Dairy SpringsCoconino National Forest · 5.2 mi

Double SpringsCoconino National Forest · 6.3 mi

Getting there

From Flagstaff, Arizona, go southeast on Lake Mary Road/Forest Highway 3. Travel on Lake Mary Road for 19 miles. Access to the campground is via a short spur off of Lake Mary Road.

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

Today58°Sunny1% rain

Tonight34°Mostly Clear2% rain

Saturday53°Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers19% rain

Saturday Night39°Chance Rain Showers46% rain

NWS forecast for Mormon Lake, AZ

Source: National Weather Service, FGZ forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 35°F, day 67°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°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: WALNUT CANYON NM, AZ (USC00029156), 10 miles away and 245 ft lower

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

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless

Padre Canyon9,431 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Pinegrove 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.

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 46 of the 68 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 11, 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 46 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: 0.11 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 (40 km) · Oct 14, 2026

Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 14, 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: Mormon Lake, AZ, 7.7 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