White Spar Campground

This is a good campground if you enjoy mtbiking and plan to ride the bean peaks trails. It’s also close to the town of Prescott. We stayed at site 7. The trees provide good shade and good viewing at night to see the stars. The issues we had with the site were the noise pollution from the highway, the bathrooms were smelly and don’t have sinks, and there are no bear boxes at any sites to keep food safe. Black bears do exist in this area.

Sites were great, spread out, and lots of shade. Hosts were very nice. Vault toilets a little stinkier than most. Did have some javelinas rummage through our site and night so be aware to keep your stuff packed away.

The campground was fine. The campground host were nice. My problem is with the online reservation system. I travel between Alaska, Montana, and Arizona every year. I don't have a carved in stone itinerary. In the Prescott weekend, I needed three nights at the campground but, your website would only allow for two. I figured the campground hosts could straighten this out. No, no, no. It was out of their hands. So, no I do not like online only recreation.gov system.

The RV space was very adequate for our overnight stay although backing a trailer around boulders is never easy. Also, there were cigarette butts on the ground in our space so the space had not been cleaned before our arrival; never saw the camp host come around.

We had a wonderful stay! Our spot was perfect for our needs. The scenery at White Spar was beautiful! There were some trails we were able to walk and for the most part the camp spots were adequately spaced apart. We loved that it was close enough to town to pick up supplies that we may have forgotten or go out to have a nice meal. It was relatively close to Courthouse Square in Prescott which is a really beautiful area of town. The only con was that it was a little too close to a busy road and the time we were there there were a lot of motorcycles with loud mufflers running up and down that road, which is the only reason I rated this at four stars instead of five, but the nights were quiet. Other than that this was a terrific campground and we will definitely be going back for many years!

Awesome camping area. Wish it had a dump site though.

Great campground close to Prescott yet still provided the camping experience we all want. Great sites, very quiet, and the stars at night were just incredible. Great hiking/biking trails right from the campground as well. We would certainly come here again.

As someone who has stayed at this campground several times I am in full appreciation of the new host. Finally someone who pays attention to what is going on in the campground. He is friendly and helpful as well. Things seem to be taken care of there.
This is a beautiful treed area with old growth oaks and many tall pines. Lots of deer and birds. I even saw blue birds last time there.
The down side is the road noise. Every jerk on a motorbike goes screaming down that road like it is a necessity. How rude!
You still have to really choose your site carefully if you rely on solar. Most of the sites are far to shady. 6 is good. So is 3. The forest service should rethink where the tent spots are. Tents should have the shady areas - EG site 3.
And the forest service really needs to fix the bathrooms. Although they have obviously been cleaned, and deodorant stickups added, the pit toilets smell so bad! I can barely use the bathrooms at all. They should be more like the toilets at Yavapai campground - the recycling toilets - at least the smell in those is outside instead of inside.

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The only bad thing about this site is the location for the tent. It was on a slope. When we would get into our sleeping bags, we would slide down. Other than that it was the perfect size for a small group.