Burro Creek Campground | Arizona
Overview
The Burro Creek Campground (1,960’ elevation) is situated along the 57 mile Burro Creek in a transition zone between the upper reaches of the scenic Sonoran Desert and lower reaches of the scenic Mojave Desert. The campground offers visitors a variety of scenery including saguaro-studded cliffs along steep canyon walls that contrast Burro Creek’s dense vegetation and flowing waters that form deep pools of water just adjacent to the campground.
The campground accepts reservations for the group site, sites 7 & 9, and 10-17. Reservations must be made at least 7 days in advance of your arrival at the site. Sites 1-6, 8, and 18-23 are available on a first-come first-serve basis.
Recreation
To enhance the visitor experience, the campground features a Watchable Wildlife Exhibit and an Interpretive Desert Garden as well as access to Burro Creek via hiking trails from the campground. The creek offers opportunities for rockhounding, wading, and wildlife viewing especially for birding with a wide-array of raptors and other species of birds. Sites 7, 8, and 9 are best for bird watching.
Facilities
Access to the Burro Creek Campground is provided via a 1.25 mile paved road from U.S. Highway 93 at mile post 140.2. The campground offers visitors 23 individual campsites, 1 group site, and 2 day-use sites featuring shaded picnic tables, fire rings with grates, and grills at the group site and day-use area. Flush toilet facilities are provided at 2 different locations in the campground as well as 1 dump station. Although water hookups are not available at campsites, drinking water is provided a various locations throughout the campground.
In planning your trip, please note that sites 1, 2, and 10 through 17 are best for larger RVs (Class A) and trailers (fifth wheels) due to maneuverability throughout the site. Other sites can be utilized for larger RVs and trailers, but it is recommended for visitor convenience that the aforementioned sites are used first.
Natural Features
The campground scenery features an adjacent canyon carved by the flow of Burro Creek with other mountains and mesas visible in the background as well as a diverse Sonoran desert plant community including saguaros, a variety of cholla and barrel cacti, creosote bushes, Palo Verde trees, and catclaw. Nearby, on the banks of Burro Creek, visitors will also see willow and cottonwood trees as well as a wide-variety of riparian shrubs.
Wildlife is frequent in the campground and include occasional sightings of desert bighorn sheep on the cliffs above Burro Creek and a variety of birds including cactus wren, Gambel’s quail, Gila woodpecker, great horned owl, great blue heron, Vermilion flycatcher, and cliff swallow to name a few. Javelina, raccoons, coyotes, and foxes have been known to use the area as the creek serves an important role in the harsh desert environment.
Nearby Attractions
The public lands surrounding the Burro Creek Campground are readily available for visitors interested in sightseeing via use of a four-wheel drive vehicle along county-maintained dirt roads. These roads wind through a variety of interesting geologic scenery combined with unique vegetative communities including Sonoran and Mojave deserts intermingled with areas of interior chaparral and pinyon-juniper woodlands. County roads are maintained regularly, but it is always a good idea to check with the local BLM office prior to planning your trip as well as exercising caution when travelling on any of these unimproved dirt roads as visitors travel at their own risk.
The area, while desolate during the warm summer months, gives way to cooler temperatures from October through April annually and provides exceptional opportunities for hunting, off-highway vehicle use, wildlife watching, photography, sightseeing, and a variety of other dispersed recreational opportunities. Depending upon winter and spring precipitation, the area surrounding the Burro Creek Campground provides visitors with excellent spring wildflower displays March through May.
Charges & Cancellations
Recreation.gov Reservation Cancellations & Changes
Cancelling a Reservation: Customers may cancel their reservation prior to arrival both on-line and through the call center. A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. Depending on when you cancel in relation to your arrival day, it may be considered a late cancellation (see below).
Recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window
Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee.
Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee.
Recreation.gov No-Shows
-Overnight and Day-Use Facilities: A no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date (or for day-use facilities, by check-in time the day of arrival). Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date and will hold group day-use facilities until check-in time on the arrival date.
-No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night’s recreation fee.
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Accessibility Description (ABA/ADA)
Cell phone reception can be spotty throughout the site, but 5G coverage is available (depending on your carrier) in common-use areas.
The site has 2 accessible concrete parking spaces, one near the day-use area and the other next to the upper toilet. Both spaces have ample room for a side ramp. Bear-proof trash cans sit on concrete near both parking spots but may be difficult for visitors with limited dexterity to open.
The day-use site has 3 picnic shelters, one of which is wheelchair accessible. Follow the concrete pathway from the accessible parking spot to the accessible shelter. The picnic table has a generous bench cut-out on one side to accommodate wheelchair users. A standing grill sits nearby on the large concrete pad.
There are 2 restrooms with flush toilets; each restroom has 2 accessible stalls (male and female) and 2 accessible sinks. The lower restroom is in the day-use area, near the accessible parking space and accessible picnic shelter. The upper restroom is near the accessible campsite 12. An accessible water fountain is outside each restroom.
Burro Creek Campground has 23 individual campsites and 1 group site. Although campsite 12 is the only site designated as accessible, some of the other sites have accessible picnic tables and are on flat packed gravel, so they would be suitable for people with limited mobility.
Accessible campsite 12 has a large concrete parking pad, which extends to the picnic ramada and fire ring/grill. The covered picnic table has a large cutout on one bench to accommodate wheelchair users. A packed gravel tent pad is in the corner next to both the parking area and picnic ramada. On the other side of the table, a concrete path leads to the upper toilet.
Typical campsites 10 and 16 have a flat, compacted gravel surface, and the covered table has the same generous bench cutout as at campsite 12 and the accessible day-use ramada. Although they aren’t designated as accessible, they should be appropriate for wheelchair users. Campsites 10, 12, and 16 are all reservable through www.recreation.gov.
The group campsite is near the host site. A large ramada covers several picnic tables that sit on a large concrete pad. The lip from the natural ground to the pad varies from small to large, so use caution. A large standing grill and trash and recycling bins sit on the concrete just outside the shelter. A water spigot behind the recycling bins on a small concrete pad could be useable by some people with limited mobility. A low, metal fire ring is on the packed natural ground near the ramada.
The site has 2 interpretive areas: the Desert Garden path and a Watchable Wildlife path. Although both pathways could be used by most wheelchair users, the Desert Garden’s packed dirt path might be more navigable than the looser gravel along much of the Watchable Wildlife area. A wood bench with no arms is in the Desert Garden. Interpretive signs in both areas are angled and at a height that can be viewed from a sitting position, but some are missing or are too faded to be easily read.
A dump station with a water spigot is on-site but not easily accessible due to surrounding boulders and loose gravel.
Descriptions and photos uploaded June 2026. Please note that actual on-the-ground conditions may vary due to natural events (e.g., weather, wildfires, erosion), normal wear and tear, or site improvements.
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Directions
The Burro Creek Recreation Site is located 60 miles northwest of Wickenburg on Highway 93.
From Kingman, AZ: Travel east 17 miles on Interstate 40, then south 53 miles on Highway 93. The recreation site turnoff is one mile south of Burro Creek Bridge. From the signed turnoff, continue 1.5 miles to the recreation site via the paved access road.
From Phoenix, AZ: Travel north on the U.S. 60 towards Wickenburg. At the first roundabout in Wickenburg veer right onto Highway 93 and proceed north towards Kingman for 59 miles until reaching the signed turnoff for the Burro Creek Campground, continue 1.5 miles to the recreation site via the paved access road.
Fees
The Burro Creek Campground has started accepting reservations for the group site, sites 7 & 9, and 10-17. Please check recreation.gov through the link on this page prior to arriving at the campground to understand the reservation process. Reservations must be made at least 7 days in advance of your arrival at the site. Sites 1-6, 8, and 18-23 will not be impacted by this change and remain available on a first-come first-serve basis.
Please visit recreation.gov here to make a reservation or to check availability of sites that are reservable.