About Houston Mesa
Number of accommodations: 60
Nearby Activities & Attractions
Hiking
Horseback Riding
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Open year round
This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
Rates, Sites & Availability
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Reviews (762)
What Guests Are Saying
Houston Mesa Campground is praised for its clean facilities, spacious sites, and friendly camp hosts, offering a peaceful camping experience with abundant vegetation for privacy. While the location is convenient with easy access to amenities, some guests noted significant road noise from the nearby highway and occasional maintenance issues like closed showers. Overall, many campers enjoyed their stay and appreciated the campground's natural beauty and cleanliness.
What Guests Are Saying
Houston Mesa Campground is praised for its clean facilities, spacious sites, and friendly camp hosts, offering a peaceful camping experience with abundant vegetation for privacy. While the location is convenient with easy access to amenities, some guests noted significant road noise from the nearby highway and occasional maintenance issues like closed showers. Overall, many campers enjoyed their stay and appreciated the campground's natural beauty and cleanliness.
Review Summary
Valerie B
VerifiedMarch 20, 2026 • Stayed at: 023, Loop: ELK
Houston Mesa is an OK campground. It does have potable water and flush toilets. These rest rooms however were not clean and sites not cleaned up. Some of the sites are nice and spacious, others not so much. It is a very busy campground. They have a confusing system of reservations and first come- first serve which limits availability for either one. The road noise is very loud and constant night and day. A very busy highway runs right by the campground. I would stay here again if there weren't other options and I was able to get one of the shadier and nicer sites.
Kirsten M
VerifiedMarch 20, 2026 • Stayed at: 006, Loop: ELK
Super easy to access our campsite. Nice educational nature trail with informative signs.
Amber V
VerifiedMarch 17, 2026 • Stayed at: 061, Loop: MOUN
Campground itself is beautiful. It’s right in town so you have access to everything you forgot.
Amber V
VerifiedMarch 17, 2026 • Stayed at: 061, Loop: MOUN
Campground itself is beautiful. It’s right in town so you have access to everything you forgot.
Warren K
VerifiedMarch 14, 2026 • Stayed at: 068, Loop: MOUN
Nice campground. Many sites are very private. Rest rooms clean with flushing toliets and sinks.
Road noise from busy adjacent highway was very annoying.
Warren K
VerifiedMarch 14, 2026 • Stayed at: 068, Loop: MOUN
Nice campground. Many sites are very private. Rest rooms clean with flushing toliets and sinks.
Road noise from busy adjacent highway was very annoying.
Richard H
VerifiedMarch 10, 2026 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: ELK
It was nice, traffic noise was pretty bad
Richard H
VerifiedMarch 10, 2026 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: ELK
It was nice, traffic noise was pretty bad
Thomas B
VerifiedMarch 9, 2026 • Stayed at: 064, Loop: MOUN
nice camp ground. easy to get to. clean site. Better than average restrooms.
site 64 is way too close to a public road, about 90'. road noise was less than enjoyable. like camping on the side of a busy road. would not suggest any of the sites on the "Moun loop"
Thomas B
VerifiedMarch 9, 2026 • Stayed at: 064, Loop: MOUN
nice camp ground. easy to get to. clean site. Better than average restrooms.
site 64 is way too close to a public road, about 90'. road noise was less than enjoyable. like camping on the side of a busy road. would not suggest any of the sites on the "Moun loop"
Location Houston Mesa
Address:
2100 Houston Mesa Rd
Payson, AZ, 85541
United States
From Payson, Arizona, go north for 1 mile to the junction of Highway 87 (Beeline Highway) and Forest Road 199 (Houston Mesa Road). Turn right (east) onto Forest Road 199 for .10 miles. The campground is on the north side of Houston Mesa Road.
The campground is accessible via Highway 87 (Beeline Highway), which is located approximately 1 mile south of the junction with Houston Mesa Road.
Latitude & Longitude: 34.27 / -111.314
Elevation: 1546 feet
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
2PM
Check out time
11AM
General
- Extra vehicle charge of $8 per night is required. Fee can be bundled with online reservation or purchased on-site at fee machine.
- No firewood sales available at campground. Plan to purchase ahead of time.
- Fireworks are always prohibited on National Forest Land.
- For first come first serve sites, you must physically arrive at the campground to see if the campsite is available. There is no guarantee this site will be available to purchase upon your arrival.
- Campers who reserve sites 7 - 18 in Horse Camp (Mule Loop) are required to have horses or mules present. You do not need to have any to use sites 2 - 6 and 19 - 30
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Last updated: June 4, 2026
