Hilltop Campground in AZ -- Campground & RV Camping

Hilltop Campground sits at 5,712 feet in the Prescott National Forest ponderosa pine forest. The site offers 34 single and three double campsites with asphalt driveways, picnic tables, steel fire rings, and tent pads, served by five vault toilets, trash dumpsters, and six water spigots. No RV hookups or dump stations are available. Interlocking trails connect to nearby Lynx Lake for boating and fishing, as well as the Granite Mountain Wilderness and Thumb Butte recreation areas.

Getting there: From Phoenix, Arizona: Traveling Northbound on I-17 take Exit 262 onto Hwy 69 North to Prescott and cointnue on Hwy 69 for 30 miles to S Walker Rd. Turn left and proceed South on S. Walker Rd. (by Costco, Petsmart, and AM/PM gas station). Drive about 3.8 miles and then turn East (left) into Hill Top Campground. Alternate route from Flagstaff, Arizona: Traveling Southbound on I-17 take Exit 278 onto Westbound Highway 169 and continue for 15 Miles until reaching the junction of Hwy 69, turn right onto Northbound Hwy 69 and continue for 12 miles to S. Walker Rd. Turn left and proceed South on S. Walker Road (by Costco, Petsmart, and AM/PM gas station). Drive about 3.8 miles and then turn East (left) into Hill Top Campground.

• Little separation from through roads or other sites here, a 37-site campground with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
• Flat ground is scarce: under a tenth of the terrain within a few hundred yards is level.
• Bigelow Peak stands 1,026 ft above the map pin, 1.4 miles southwest.
• Most of them shaded.
• The Lynx Lake shoreline is 0.4 mi off.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.

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