Cholla Campground in AZ -- Campground & RV Camping in Arizona
Cholla Campground in AZ
U.S. Forest Service allows overnight stays only at the designated sites here.
Cholla Campground is a large, solar-powered site set in the Sonoran Desert along the shores of Roosevelt Lake at an elevation of 2,168 feet. The campground has 206 sites equipped with shade ramadas, fire pits, grills, and picnic tables. Facilities include playgrounds, showers, flush toilets, and developed boat ramps with accessible boarding facilities. Visitors can launch motorized or non-motorized craft onto the water or hike nearby segments of the Arizona Trail. The surrounding landscape features views of the Sierra Ancha, Salome, and Superstition wilderness areas.
The road in has not been measured -- unknown, not bad. Sits on broad, near-level ground.
Crowded here -- the nearest through road is 0.4 miles off, a 167-site campground. The Theodore Roosevelt Lake shoreline is 0.2 mi off. Browns Peak stands 5,437 ft above the site, 7.7 miles southwest. 167 sit on the water -- most of them shaded. The nearest town, Tonto Basin, is 9.1 mi off.
September normals 70–98°F, 1.3″ rain. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.
Set by U.S. Forest Service. Stage 1 and 2 orders change within days -- check the current order before you build a fire.
fs.usda.gov