Rock Crossing Campground (AZ)
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 35All of them booked ahead
- Season
- – September 23Closes September 23. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Rock Crossing Campground sits in a beautiful setting surrounded by ponderosa pine and oak at an elevation of 7,316'. The cool summer climate and countless recreational opportunities makes this a popular location. Wildlife is abundant in the area and includes elk, mule deer, black bear, bald eagles, and osprey. 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 the 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 campground is comprised of 31 individual family sites and two double sites. Each family site can accommodate up to eight people while double sites can accommodate up to 16 people. The facility provides picnic tables, campfire rings, cooking grills, tent pads, bear food storage lockers, drinking water, vault toilets, trash collection, and campground hosts. There are no utility hookups or showers. Campsites vary in size and can accommodate a wide range of equipment with a maximum RV or trailer length of 32'. For groups larger than 10 people and up to 50 people, the nearby Moqui Group Campground can be reserved.
Natural Features
Coconino National Forest offers 1.8 million acres of recreational opportunity from desert basins to mountain peaks. The campground sits 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 across two thirds of Arizona and offers sweeping views of the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
Tonto Natural Bridge State park is approximately 45 minutes away and offers what may be the world's largest travertine bridge. 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 hooksups or dump station.
Trash service is provided.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
Horses are not allowed in the campground.
Quiet hours are from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM. Running generators not permitted during quiet hours. 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 graveled surfaces.
Single sites accommodate up to 8 people and double sites up to 16 people. Two vehicles for single sites and four vehicles for double sites can be accomodated.
RV's and Trailers up to 35' are allowed at several sites.
Tents, pop-up campers, camper vans, and pickup campers are allowed at all sites.
Pets must be on a leash or confined at all times and never left unattended.
Fires allowed only in provided metal fire rings when our Forest is not under any restrictions. Know Before you go. Check our main Forest Page to see if we are in Restrictions before coming out. Violators will be Cited! Stage 1 Fire restrictions: Fires allowed in developed fire ring only Stage 2 Fire restrictions: NO fires allowed, No charcoal BBQs, Propane ONLY https://www.fs.usda.gov/r03/coconino/fire/prevention/restrictions Click here for more information on Coconino National Forest Fire Restrictions
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Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination. Don't Move Firewood!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 35
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 32 of 35 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…food storage lockers, drinking water, vault toilets, trash collection, and campground hosts. There are…”
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are no utility hookups or showers.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tent pads, bear food storage lockers, drinking water, vault toilets, trash collection, and campground…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Auto Touring
- Backpacking
- Birding
- Canoeing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Stargazing
- Night sky · 65th 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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
35 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 35 mapped sitesAll 35 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 35 of the 35 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. 35 of the 35 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 4,361 ft | 353 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 4,586 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 325 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 94 ft | 4,412 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 174 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 4,433 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 172 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 113 ft | 4,232 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 144 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 4,126 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 154 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 4,120 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 209 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 4,035 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 240 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 112 ft | 3,967 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 269 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 3,877 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 117 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 19 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 73 ft | 3,849 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 149 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 4,378 ft | 297 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 20 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 3,760 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 99 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 21 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 88 ft | 3,704 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 84 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 22 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 3,665 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 165 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 23 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 3,741 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 136 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 24 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 68 ft | 3,732 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 261 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 25 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 3,794 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 230 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 26 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 3,843 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 221 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 27 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 3,943 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 120 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 28 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 109 ft | 4,189 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 138 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 29 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 52 ft | 4,252 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 210 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 4,540 ft | 195 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 30 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 4,295 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 181 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 31 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 107 ft | 4,387 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 74 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 32 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 132 ft | 4,438 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 93 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 33 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 4,537 ft | 243 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 34 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 4,546 ft | 205 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 35 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 95 ft | 4,447 ft | 305 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 4 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 4,437 ft | 147 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 4,558 ft | 108 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 6 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 88 ft | 4,576 ft | 88 ft | $20–$40 |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 4,625 ft | 125 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 8 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 4,552 ftC.C. Cragin Reservoir | 278 ft | $20–$40 | |
| A | 9 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 4,664 ft | 195 ft | $20–$40 |
25 of 35 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Moqui Group CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 2.5 miClints Well CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 5.6 mi
Long Valley Group CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 7.0 miKehl Springs CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 11 mi
Knoll Lake CampgroundCoconino National Forest · 12 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 4.6 miles to FR 751 (turnoff for the Blue Ridge / C.C. Cragin Reservoir). Turn right on FR 751 and drive approximately 2.5 miles to the campground.
From Payson, Arizona, drive approximately 42.5 miles north on AZ 87 toward Winslow to FR 751(turnoff for the Blue Ridge / C.C. Cragin Reservoir). Turn right on FR 751 and drive approximately 2.5 miles to the campground.
GPS Coordinates 34°33'51.6"N 111°13'07.5"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
Rock Crossing 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 →