Sinkhole Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 13All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located in the ponderosa pine forest, this campground is within walking distance of Willow Springs Lake which provides boating and fishing opportunities. Hiking and mountain biking opportunities are nearby in the non-motorized Wildlife Area. The General Crook National Recreation Trail is also within a mile of the campground. Be prepared for rain, often heavy, through July and August. Expect cool to cold nighttime temperatures. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing and boating are available at nearby Willow Springs Lake which is approximately one mile from the campground.
Facilities
Sinkhole Campground has 26 sites (sites 14 through 26 are available for advanced reservation). Sites 1 through 13 are first-come, first served. There are two accessible sites, two double sites and the rest are single sites. All sites are back-in. Each site 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
Sinkhole Campground is surrounded by ponderosa pines. The entrance, roads and back-in section is asphalt. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 535-0181.
Nearby Attractions
Woods Canyon Lakes is located approximately 10 miles west off of Road 300 and Road 105. The store at the lake has boat and kayak rentals. Gas, phone and groceries are available approximately four miles east at Forest Lakes.
What the agency tells you
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
- 13
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- 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
- Night sky · 66th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 17:02 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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
recreation.gov availability, read 17:02 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
13 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sitesAll 13 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. 13 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 68 ft | 2,167 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 68 ft | 2,222 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 32 ft | 2,232 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 32 ft | 2,249 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 75 ft | 2,216 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 72 ft | 2,172 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 72 ft | 2,104 ft | $25 |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 1,984 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 34 ft | 1,953 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 34 ft | 1,941 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 81 ft | 1,959 ft | $25 |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 91 ft | 2,120 ft | $25 | |
| SINKHOLE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 91 ft | 2,066 ft | $25 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rim CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 1.4 mi
Crook CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 3.3 mi
Spillway (AZ)Sitgreaves National Forest · 3.5 mi
Woods Canyon Lake GroupSitgreaves National Forest · 3.5 mi
Canyon PointSitgreaves National Forest · 3.6 miLocated on Willow Springs Lake Road approximately 1/2 mile off of Highway 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
Sinkhole 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 →