Sollers Cabin (AZ)
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 26 of the next 26 nights read 15:36 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Sollers Cabin is a two-story, six-room cabin suitable for up to eight people. The cabin has 3 bedrooms, each with a queen-sized bed, a dining/living room, 1.5 bathrooms, and a fully equipped kitchen. The living room contains two queen-size futons. The dining room has a table which seats eight. The newly added sunroom is great for morning coffee or a good book. The kitchen is equipped with an electric stove and oven, microwave, refrigerator, pots, pans, utensils, dishes, a toaster, and a coffee pot. The house has electricity, electric heating (no A/C), and running water. Keep reading
While the cabin has amenities for comfortable lodging, guests do need to provide some of their own supplies, including food, sleeping bags, linens, pillows, towels, dish soap, matches, a first aid kit, toilet paper, and garbage bags. At this time, guests are not to use the fireplace in the cabin. Unless fire restrictions are in effect, guests can have a fire in the fire ring outside. Although electricity is available, it is recommended that guests bring an additional light source in case of emergencies.
Recreation
The Sollers Cabin is approximately one hour from Tucson, Arizona, and provides excellent access to a myriad of recreational opportunities, including hiking, camping, birding, horseback riding, picnicking, sightseeing, mountain biking, rock climbing, and visiting historic areas. Fishing is also available at nearby Rose Canyon Lake. Winter sports are available at higher elevations, depending on snowfall; Mt. Lemmon Ski Valley in the Santa Catalina Mountains is the southernmost ski area in the United States.
Natural Features
The Santa Catalina Mountains comprise one of the "sky islands" in the Coronado National Forest. From the desert floor to the upper slopes of Mt. Lemmon, biozones vary from Sonoran Desert to subalpine forest, with wildlife communities that are equally diverse. An extensive trail network offers opportunities for day and extended trips, with easy access to the nearby Pusch Ridge Wildernes Nearby Attractions Numerous attractions are also available nearby, including: the Sky Island Scenic Byway (General Hitchcock Highway), Rose Canyon Lake, Mt Lemmon Ski Valley, The University of Arizona Mt. Lemmon Sky Center, the hamlet of Summerhaven, Arizona, as well as numerous hiking trails, and opportunities for photography and picnicking. Attractions within one hour's drive include Sabino Canyon Recreation Area and Saguaro National Park East.
What the agency tells you
Reservation dates are subject to inclement weather. Please call (520) 351-3351 for the latest road conditions on Mt. Lemmon and the Catalina Highway, including vehicle restrictions. The road to the cabin is not plowed when there is snow, so if snowfall is heavy enough, the cabin may be closed.
Access to the cabin is through a locked gate; the gate has a combination lock, and the house key is located in a lock box on the back door. Upon reservation confirmation, the gate and lockbox combinations will be provided for cabin entry. The gate is heavy but needs to be closed and locked unless passing through it.
Maid service is NOT provided. Before leaving, renters are expected to clean the cabin; this includes washing dishes, sweeping and mopping floors, wiping down countertops, cleaning bathroom & shower, and removing ALL trash.
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Guests MUST provide some of their own supplies including: food, sleeping bags, linens, pillows, towels, dish soap, matches, a first aid kit, toilet paper and garbage bags.
Check-in time is 2 PM, and the check-out time is 11AM
Please do NOT flush anything but toilet paper to prevent clogs or damage to the septic system.
Before leaving, renters are expected to clean the cabin. This includes washing dishes, sweeping floors, wiping down countertops, cleaning the bathroom and shower, and packing out all trash.
Cell phone coverage is limited/spotty and is unreliable in the cabin.
Pets are permitted in the cabin, but owners MUST clean up all pet waste.
The cabin is located in a natural area. Please be aware that snakes, scorpions, and other venomous and non-venomous insects may be present at any time. Please keep the cabin and grounds clean and litter-free to deter squirrels, mice, rats, bears, and other wildlife.
The cabin is monitored by Pima County Sheriff and Forest Service Law Enforcement.
The cabin has a no-smoking policy.
There is an emergency helicopter landing pad (helispot) near the cabin to the south. Please be aware of it, and make sure that no cars are parked there during your stay.
This cabin does not honor Golden Age Passport Discounts
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- Shower/Bath Type states a shower on all 1 of this campground's campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Backpacking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Picnicking
- Climbing
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Wildlife viewing
Full this Saturdayread 15:36 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
3 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:26 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 1 is free on Thu, Oct 22. read 15:36 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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
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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 3
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:26 UTC
- Sabino Canyon Recreation Area Cactus Ramada 2Coronado National Forest · 8.9 mi · 2 of 2 site-nights open
- Sabino Canyon Recreation Area Cactus Ramada 1Coronado National Forest · 8.9 mi · 2 of 2 site-nights open
- Saguaro National Park Wilderness PermitsSaguaro National Park · 17 mi · 20 of 40 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 15:36 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Sollers Cabin | Sollers Cabin | cabin electric | 2,191 ft | 1,970 ft | $175 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Palisades Ranger Residence CabinCoronado National Forest · 0.5 mi
Showers Point Group SiteCoronado National Forest · 0.8 mi
Rose Canyon CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 1.1 mi
Rose CanyonCoronado National Forest · 1.3 mi
Whitetail CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 1.5 mi
Spencer Canyon CampgroundCoronado National Forest · 2.0 miFrom northeast Tucson, take East Tanque Verde Road to East Catalina Highway. Turn left (north) on East Catalina Highway, which becomes the General Hitchcock Highway, for approximately 18.5 miles, then turn left on Sollers Road. Continue on Sollers Road for approximately a mile.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Willow Canyon, AZ
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Sollers Cabin (AZ) 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyJuan CiscomaniU.S. Representative · Arizona’s 6th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMark KellyU.S. Senator · Arizona
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRuben GallegoU.S. Senator · Arizona
No contact form we could verify, so that link is their own site. Contact is inside it. Washington office: 202-224-4521.
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Sollers Cabin (AZ), Coronado National Forest, Arizona
Dear Juan Ciscomani, I’m a constituent in Arizona’s 6th district. I tried to camp at Sollers Cabin (AZ), Coronado National Forest, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Sollers Cabin (AZ) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Sollers Cabin (AZ) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Sollers Cabin (AZ). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Sollers Cabin (AZ) (Coronado National Forest, Arizona) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Sollers Cabin (AZ), Coronado National Forest, Arizona
Dear Mark Kelly, I’m a constituent in Arizona. I tried to camp at Sollers Cabin (AZ), Coronado National Forest, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Sollers Cabin (AZ) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Sollers Cabin (AZ) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Sollers Cabin (AZ). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Sollers Cabin (AZ) (Coronado National Forest, Arizona) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Sollers Cabin (AZ), Coronado National Forest, Arizona
Dear Ruben Gallego, I’m a constituent in Arizona. I tried to camp at Sollers Cabin (AZ), Coronado National Forest, Arizona, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Sollers Cabin (AZ) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Sollers Cabin (AZ) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Sollers Cabin (AZ). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Sollers Cabin (AZ) (Coronado National Forest, Arizona) via campanac.com