WHITE HORSE LAKE Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $30–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 88All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
White Horse Lake is an extremely popular fishing lake, 19 miles southeast of Williams, in northern Arizona. The lake's campground is conveniently located an hour from Grand Canyon National Park's south rim and surrounded by the exciting and diverse scenery of Kaibab National Forest. A number of forest attractions are nearby, including scenic overlooks, dams and hiking and mountain biking trails. Please be advised: cell phone service can be poor/unreliable at the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to fishing, the area offers excellent opportunities for hiking, mountain biking and wildlife watching. Anglers seek out Large Mouth Bass, Crappie and Bluegill.
Facilities
White Horse Lake boasts 77 single unit campsites with tables, campfire rings, grills and tent pads. There is also a large group site that can accommodate up to 60 visitors, 10 double sites, tent-only sites and accessible sites. Tents, trailers and motor homes up to 45 ft. long can be accommodated. There are many amenities offered to campers, including water faucets, a small boat ramp, restrooms, and trash bins.
Natural Features
Kaibab National Forest is nestled on the Colorado Plateau, an area of land that was uplifted by geologic processes. White Horse Lake sits at an elevation of 6,600 feet, and the campground is forested with plenty of open areas. Wildlife such as deer and elk frequent the shoreline. Summer temperatures range from 50 degrees at night to 80-90 degrees during the day. Summer thunderstorms, known as the monsoon, can build up quickly, especially during July and August. Snow is common from December through March. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.
Nearby Attractions
Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim is just over one hour north of the campground. The cities of Williams and Flagstaff have amenities such as shops, restaurants and cultural and historic sites. From canyons to prairies, peaks to plateaus, Kaibab National Forest offers layers of opportunity for peace, solitude and discovery. Over 300 miles of trails, some clinging to the rims of the Grand Canyon, allow visitors to step off the beaten path into uncrowded landscapes.
What the agency tells you
Potable water and hydrants are for drinking only; filling water tanks in motorhomes and RVs is not allowed due to limited supply
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY. Double & Group sites: Refer to Specific Site # for capacity limits.
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Only small electric boat motors allowed NO swimming allowed in the lake.
Click here for more about the Grand Canyon National Park
Click here for more about Kaibab National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
There isn't a dump station at the campground. Nearest dump station is in the town of Williams.
Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
This is a high elevation facility: use caution when traveling from lower elevations.
Bears frequent the area; please obey all food storage rules and regulations. Check with your host for details.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 88 · 8 tent-only, 10 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 77 of 88
- Accessible sites
- 88
- Pets
- Allowed at 24 of 88 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…amenities offered to campers, including water faucets, a small boat ramp, restrooms, and trash bins.…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Kayaking
- Other Recreation Concession Site
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 89th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 3
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Spotty
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 35 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:19 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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$50 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 15:19 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
88 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 69 mapped sitesAll 88 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 69 of the 88 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. 88 of the 88 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 62 ft | 682 ft | 358 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 67 ft | 625 ft | 317 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 62 ft | 679 ft | 362 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 67 ft | 678 ft | 379 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 005 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 79 ft | 636 ft | 288 ft | $198 |
| A | 006 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 79 ft | 658 ft | 213 ft | $198 |
| A | 007 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | $198 | |||
| A | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 132 ft | 612 ft | 81 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 133 ft | 569 ft | 68 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 011 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 131 ft | 528 ft | 200 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 47 ft | 418 ft | 319 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 47 ft | 404 ft | 284 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 68 ft | 362 ft | 377 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 108 ft | 270 ft | 385 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 162 ft | 300 ft | 312 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| A | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 83 ft | 379 ft | 326 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 64 ft | 346 ft | 263 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 64 ft | 395 ft | 239 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 021 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 100 ft | 370 ft | 141 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 022 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| A | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 68 ft | 491 ft | 173 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 68 ft | 512 ft | 185 ft | $30–$50 |
| A | 025 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 026 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 64 ft | 204 ft | 230 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 027 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 64 ft | 147 ft | 272 ft | $198 |
| B | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 92 ft | 203 ft | 206 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 92 ft | 128 ft | 284 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 030 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 031 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 66 ft | 216 ft | 265 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 032 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 66 ft | 201 ft | 256 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 034 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 83 ft | 182 ft | 204 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 66 ft | 99 ft | 286 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 66 ft | 102 ft | 296 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 57 ft | 74 ft | 302 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 038 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 039 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 57 ft | 90 ft | 273 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 040 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 041 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 042 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 91 ft | 255 ft | 113 ft | $198 |
| B | 043 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 91 ft | 265 ft | 98 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 044 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 123 ft | 357 ft | 157 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 045 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 046 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 047 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| B | 048 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 109 ft | 370 ft | 100 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 049 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 117 ft | 420 ft | 199 ft | $30–$50 |
| B | 050 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 100 ft | 302 ft | 109 ft | $30–$50 |
| C | 051 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 95 ft | 114 ft | 366 ft | $30 | |
| C | 052 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 92 ft | 145 ft | 342 ft | $30 | |
| C | 053 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 92 ft | 101 ft | 404 ft | $30 | |
| C | 054 | tent only nonelectric | yes | $30 | ||||
| C | 055 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 77 ft | 181 ft | 329 ft | $30 | |
| C | 056 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 49 ft | 219 ft | 214 ft | $30 | |
| C | 057 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 49 ft | 198 ft | 259 ft | $30 | |
| C | 058 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 72 ft | 158 ft | 187 ft | $30 | |
| D | 059 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 47 ft | 287 ft | 463 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 060 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | 80 ft | 302 ft | 542 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 061 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 47 ft | 240 ft | 452 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 062 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 68 ft | 228 ft | 557 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 063 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 69 ft | 160 ft | 466 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 064 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 69 ft | 92 ft | 466 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 065 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 77 ft | 135 ft | 654 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 066 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 68 ft | 177 ft | 591 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 067 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 77 ft | 202 ft | 710 ft | $30–$50 |
| D | 068 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 69 ft | 239 ft | 640 ft | $198 |
| D | 069 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 69 ft | 287 ft | 706 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 070 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 50 ft | 345 ft | 937 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 071 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 50 ft | 389 ft | 988 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 072 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 67 ft | 455 ft | 1,043 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 073 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 91 ft | 511 ft | 1,126 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 074 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| E | 075 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 48 ft | 662 ft | 1,261 ft | $198 |
| E | 076 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 48 ft | 661 ft | 1,241 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 077 | group standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | $198 | |||
| E | 078 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 37 ft | 705 ft | 1,242 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 079 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 37 ft | 737 ft | 1,280 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 080 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 76 ft | 755 ft | 1,184 ft | $198 |
| E | 081 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 76 ft | 740 ft | 1,131 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 082 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| E | 083 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 126 ft | 634 ft | 1,006 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 084 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| E | 085 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | $30–$50 | |||
| E | 086 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 111 ft | 491 ft | 901 ft | $30–$50 |
| E | 087 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 111 ft | 440 ft | 792 ft | $30–$50 |
| F | Wgroup | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 376 ft | 200 ft | 872 ft | $198 |
25 of 88 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dogtown Lake Campground and GroupKaibab National Forest · 9.0 mi
Fernow CabinCoconino National Forest · 12 mi
Kaibab Lake Sites and Group AreasKaibab National Forest · 14 mi
Spring Valley Cabin & BunkhouseKaibab National Forest · 17 mi
Pine Flat Campground WestCoconino National Forest · 17 mi
Cave SpringCoconino National Forest · 18 miIn Williams, Arizona, turn south onto 4th Street/County Road 73 and drive about 9 miles to Forest Road 110. Turn left and proceed for approximately 7 miles to FR 109. Turn left again and follow for about 3 miles to the campground.
Forest Roads 110 and 109 are high-use roads and can become rough during peak season. During the winter, roads may be closed due to snow cover.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Parks, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
WHITE HORSE LAKE 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
“…and mountain biking trails. Please be advised: cell phone service can be poor/unreliable at the campground. Recreation In addition to…”