U.S. Forest Service · Sitgreaves National Forest · AZ
Spillway Group 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
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- Season
- April 29Opens April 29. No closing date published.
7,570 ftElevation
263 ftWater · Woods Canyon Lake
13.1 miNE of Star Valley, AZ
37%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 73rd darkest of 262 in AZ
Opens April 29. No closing date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Spillway Group Campground is set among tall ponderosa pine, oak and Douglas fir overlooking scenic Woods Canyon Lake. Woods Canyon Lake offers boating (electric trolling motors only) and fishing opportunities. A scenic loop trail circles the lake. Tents, trailers and small motorhomes up to 16 foot are allowed. Woods Canyon Lake Store and Marina is within walking distance and offers groceries as well as camping and fishing equipment and watercraft rentals. Map of Spillway Group Campground .
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
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 15, 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 · 4
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.
Group site non-electric $185 per night, includes 25 people and six vehicles.
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
Spillway (AZ)Sitgreaves National Forest · 0.2 mi
Woods Canyon Lake GroupSitgreaves National Forest · 0.3 mi
Aspen (AZ)Sitgreaves National Forest · 0.5 miAspen CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 0.5 mi
Crook CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 1.1 mi
Mogollon CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 1.2 mi
Spillway (AZ)Sitgreaves National Forest · 0.2 miWoods Canyon Lake GroupSitgreaves National Forest · 0.3 miAspen (AZ)Sitgreaves National Forest · 0.5 miAspen CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 0.5 miCrook CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 1.1 miMogollon CampgroundSitgreaves National Forest · 1.2 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight41°Clear
Friday57°Sunny
Friday Night38°Mostly Clear1% rain
Saturday52°Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers22% rain
NWS forecast for Christopher Creek, AZ
Source: National Weather Service, FGZ forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Spillway Group 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours.
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: Christopher Creek, AZ, 2.8 mi ENE (a census designated place). Straight line.