U.S. Forest Service · Coronado National Forest · AZ
Rustler Park Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- April 1 – October 31Open April 1 through October 31
Photos · U.S. Forest Service
8,420 ftElevation
2,933 ftWater · East Turkey Creek
35.1 miNE of Douglas, AZ
45%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 33rd darkest of 262 in AZ
Open April 1 through October 31Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Rustler Park is a wildflower-carpeted meadow high in the Chiricahuas. Around the turn of the century, rustlers concealed stolen stock there while altered brands healed and pursuit cooled. Today, the meadow provides a cool mountain respite from the deserts below. Rimmed with Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine, the meadow is sprinkled with seasonal wildflowers. Campsites at Rustler Park are scattered along access roads that have been purposefully kept out of the meadow to avoid damaging fragile plants and soils. Keep reading
Since the Horseshoe II fire in 2011, the campground has been rebuilt and some campsites now have canopies to give visitors shade. Rustler Park is an excellent place to pursue birdwatching. Larger animals, including black bear, are frequently spotted here, too. Trails lead from the campground into the Chiricahua Wilderness and to other places of interest. Note: Black bears in area. Use Bear boxes provided.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description
Around the campground
- On the water
- Meadow
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6
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.
Trailhead Day-Use: $8 per vehicle per day or $10 per week Camping: $15 per night Buy a pass online , or purchase a pass on-site with cash or check.
Proof of payment, or a valid Coronado National Forest Annual Pass or Interagency (America the Beautiful) Pass, including the Annual, Senior, Access, or Military Pass, must be displayed on the driver's side of the vehicle dashboard.
Learn more about accepted passes.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
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: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
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Portal BunkhouseCoronado National Forest · 6.9 mi
Portal CCC HouseCoronado National Forest · 7.0 mi
Herb Martyr CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 3.4 miSycamore CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 4.5 miSunny Flat CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 6.2 miIdlewilde CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 6.7 miPortal BunkhouseCoronado National Forest · 6.9 miPortal CCC HouseCoronado National Forest · 7.0 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today46°Sunny5% rain
Tonight39°Slight Chance Rain Showers18% rain
Sunday54°Chance Rain Showers then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms29% rain
Sunday Night46°Chance Showers And Thunderstorms47% rain
NWS forecast for Rodeo, NM
Source: National Weather Service, TWC forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 16, 2026
Who answers for this land
Rustler Park Campground is in Arizona’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Juan Ciscomani (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: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 17, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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 · Sep 9, 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: Rodeo, NM, 13.7 mi WNW (a census designated place). Straight line.