Schoolhouse Campground (AZ)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:45 UTC
- A night
- $20–$40When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 40In the agency’s record
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Schoolhouse Campground is located in close proximity to the eastern shores of Roosevelt Lake with an elevation of 2,100 feet. Roosevelt is Arizona's largest lake offering a number of great water based recreation opportunites such as fishing, motorized and non-motorized boating, and lakeside hiking. Keep reading
Recreation
Schoolhouse Campground offers easy access to Roosevelt Lake with a paved boat ramp. This provides excellent opportunities for boating, kayaking, canoeing, and other water-based recreation activites. Fishing is another popular activity where anglers fish for Largemouth and Small mouth Bass; Crappie; Sunfish; Channel and Flathead Catfish. Other activities in this area include, hiking, biking, wildlife viewing, and photography.
Facilities
This campground offers 40 campsites within Mesquite Loop, which can accomidate RVs, trailers, and multi-vehicle parking. Each individual campsite has the capacity to hold 10 individuals and 3 vehicles, while the double campsites can hold up to 20 individuals with 6 vehicles. Most sites offer pull through parking, a shade ramada, picnic tables, and campfire rings with grills. This site also offers fully accessible campsites with paved parking and stand-up grills. Other amentities include a paved boat launch area for motorized and non-motorized boating, and vault toilets. Water is not available at this recreational area.
Natural Features
The campground loop provides spacious sites perfect for RVs and trailers with mesquite trees throughout, and views of the mountains and native Sonoran Desert plants and wildlife. This is a small campground ideal for individuals or families looking for a quiet area to get away.
Nearby Attractions
Two National Scenic Byways (AZ Hwy 88 Apache Trail and AZ Hwy 288 Spines to Pines Highway). Roosevelt Dam, Tonto National Monument, the Arizona Trail, endless miles of jeep trails, Towns of Payson and Globe, Superstition, Sierra Ancha, and Four Peaks Wilderness'. Don't forget to stop by the Tonto Basin Environmental Center learn about the history of the area.
What the agency tells you
During June, July, and August temperatures reach well over 100° and many RV air conditioners cannot keep up. - Check in time is 2:00pm and check out time is 11:00am. Quiet hours are 10:00pm to 6:00am. - Maximum trailer length is 32'. - Fees will be collected for extra vehicles. - Stay limit 14 days. - Pack it in pack it out. - Rules and regulations are posted on bulletin board. - Please use trash receptacles, when available. - The adjacent boating site has a paved boat launch ramp with courtesy dock -- useable when water elevations are higher than 2,110 feet.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 40
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 4 of 40
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 40 of 40 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…boating, and vault toilets. Water is not available at this recreational area. Natural Features The…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Amphitheater
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 172nd darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:45 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Schoolhouse Campground (AZ) closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Windy Hill CampgroundTonto National Forest · 4.5 mi · 137 sites
- Frazier Group CampgroundTonto National Forest · 6.8 mi · 1 site
- Burnt Corral CampgroundTonto National Forest · 11 mi · 79 sites
- Cholla CampgroundTonto National Forest · 12 mi · 167 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 16:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
40 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 40 mapped sitesAll 40 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. 40 of the 40 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Mesquite | 166 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 52 ft | 782 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 167 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 52 ft | 746 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 168 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 44 ft | 710 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 169 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 44 ft | 679 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 170 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 54 ft | 647 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 171 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 53 ft | 617 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 172 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 60 ft | 602 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 173 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 53 ft | 600 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 174 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 57 ft | 732 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 175 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 40 ft | 699 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 176 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 42 ft | 668 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 177 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 42 ft | 633 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 178 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 53 ft | 596 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 179 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 53 ft | 570 ft | $20–$40 |
| Mesquite | 180 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 59 ft | 543 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 181 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 53 ft | 549 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 182 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 54 ft | 557 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 183 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 64 ft | 703 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 184 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 40 ft | 674 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 185 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 42 ft | 637 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 186 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 55 ft | 595 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 187 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 43 ft | 465 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 188 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 43 ft | 462 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 189 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 56 ft | 466 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 190 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 46 ft | 366 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 191 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 13 ft | 353 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 192 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 45 ft | 384 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 193 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 13 ft | 341 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 194 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 36 ft | 345 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 195 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 45 ft | 358 ft | $20–$40 |
| Mesquite | 196 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 56 ft | 582 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 197 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 45 ft | 597 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 198 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 45 ft | 590 ft | $20–$40 |
| Mesquite | 199 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 46 ft | 544 ft | $20–$40 |
| Mesquite | 200 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 44 ft | 486 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 201 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 44 ft | 442 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 202 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 50 ft | 380 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 203 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 19 ft | 330 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 204 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 19 ft | 328 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Mesquite | 205 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 47 ft | 282 ft | $20–$40 |
25 of 40 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Grapevine Group CampgroundTonto National Forest · 2.0 mi
Windy Hill CampgroundTonto National Forest · 4.5 mi
Frazier Group CampgroundTonto National Forest · 6.8 mi
Frazier Horse CampgroundTonto National Forest · 6.9 mi
Burnt Corral CampgroundTonto National Forest · 11 mi
Cholla CampgroundTonto National Forest · 12 miThis site is located 11 miles south of the historic Roosevelt Dam. From Mesa: Take the State Hwy. 87/Beeline Highway north for about 60 miles to the junction with State Hwy. 88. Continue on State Hwy. 88 south for 8 miles to Forest Road (FR) 447/Schoolhouse Recreation Site. Turn left and continue for 4 miles to the site.
From Globe: area: Take State Hwy. 188 north for 20 miles to its junction with Forest Road (FR) 447/Schoolhouse Recreation Site, turn right and continue for 4 miles to the site.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Roosevelt Estates, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 59°F, day 85°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 40°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Schoolhouse 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 →