Rim Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $18From, per site
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
- Season
- April 29Opens April 29. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rim Campground is situated close to the edge of the Mogollon Rim. Spectacular 100-mile views are seen from many vantage points along the rim. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing and boating are available at Woods Canyon Lake which is approximately 3 miles from the campground.
Facilities
Rim Campground has 26 sites (of which sites 14 through 26 are available for advanced reservation). All sites have parallel parking in front of campsite and are approximately 40 feet. Sites can accommodate tents, pop-up campers, trailer and motorhomes. There are two loops which have 13 sites per loop. Each campsite offers a campfire ring with grill and picnic table. Additional amenities include accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash service. A camp host is available at the site.
Natural Features
Rim Campground is surrounded by ponderosa pines and located in an area that is relatively flat. Once in a while a few elk will walk through the campsites. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 535-0181.
Nearby Attractions
Some groceries are available at the Marina Store at Woods Canyon Lakes which is approximately three miles from the campground. The store also offers boat and kayak rentals. This lake is a great location for fishing.
What the agency tells you
Please note: There are no parking spurs at this campground. Cartop tents will have to park along the road next to the campsite, not in the campsite itself.
A fee for extra vehicles, $12.00 will be collected at the facility.
There is no electricity / water / sewer site hook-ups at this facility.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Well behaved dogs on leashes or leads are welcome. Dogs must be attended at all times - do not leave unattended dogs in campsites. Visitors who bring aggressive or nuisance dogs may be asked to leave - no refund will be given.
Only quiet generators are permitted in campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 32 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Additional amenities include accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash service. A camp host is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash service. A camp host is available at the…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Night sky · 69th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 2
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
“A fee for extra vehicles, $12.00 will be collected at the facility.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $18 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
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sitesAll 26 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. 26 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Rim Campground | 01 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 02 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 03 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 04 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 05 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 06 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 07 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 08 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 09 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 10 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 11 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 12 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 13 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $18 | ||
| Rim Campground | 14 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 94 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 15 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 62 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 16 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 62 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 17 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 88 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 18 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 85 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 19 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 85 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 20 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 73 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 21 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 73 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 22 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 107 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 23 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 79 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 24 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 79 ft | 1.4 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 25 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 77 ft | 1.3 mi | $18 |
| Rim Campground | 26 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 77 ft | 1.3 mi | $18 |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sinkhole CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 1.4 mi
Crook CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 2.0 mi
Woods Canyon Lake GroupSitgreaves National Forest · 2.3 mi
Spillway (AZ)Sitgreaves National Forest · 2.4 miFr 171 CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 2.5 miAspen CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 2.6 miLocated on Road 300 approximately 1 mile off of High 260.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Forest Lakes, AZ
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
Rim 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 →