Windy Hill Campground

We enjoy the view

Great place to stay beautiful views.

We really like the campground, and it's proximity to the lake and the Tonto Ruins. We aren't boaters and we don't fish, but we like the campgrounds in this area. This is out first time at Windy Hill, having stayed at Schoolhouse in the past. We camped during a slow time where the campground had only a handful of other campers. The facilities were neat and clean, and we liked the sites. We enjoyed our stay except one thing keeps me from giving it 5 stars. While very nice, friendly and helpful, the camps hosts each had bright flashing lights in their site that ran all night, every night. One was rope lights surrounding their rig, but the other had extremely bright flashing lights on the front of their rig and underneath as well as the entire outside of the rig brightly lit up. These light were bright enough to light up a whole section of the campground, including sites hundreds of feet away. The main offender was the large LED lights on the front of the rig. Amazingly, during a night visit to the lower Tonto Cliff dwellings, we could look back toward the campground nearly a mile and a half away, and these lights were clearly visible. I realize it's common for people to place lights under their rigs during extended stays to keep rodents away (a myth, but that's another story) but these lights were bright enough there shouldn't have been a rodent within a mile of the campground. Our site was in an area mostly shielded from the lights, but there were many others surrounding the sites, where the flashing lights would certainly be an issue for people trying to sleep, or even sit outside as bright lights strobed in their eyes. I couldn't imagine camping right across the road from these sites. Had they been regular, and less bright rope lights, it wouldn't have been so bad, but bright strobing lights, are altogether different.

Very nice, developed FS campground. Plentiful access to potable water, garbage service, and nearby on-site RV dump station. Free showers and flush toilets. Showers are heated by solar panels, and in winter, the water is lukewam, and runs out quickly. Very attentive hosts. Very underutilized, and not busy. Rec.gov needs to get the site map updated, or even an old one on their website. Difficult to select a site w/o a map.. Been missing a map for a long time, now. Maybe that’s why there’s so little use?

Water always seems to be an issue here. Other than water, nice place and the campground hosts are fantastic.

Facilities were clean and maintained. The women's shower light turns off mid shower so bring a light. The map on Recreation.gov is nonexistent so look it up on Google images. If you reserve a site online and you have a boat the campground host doesn't know about the boat pass they have had for the last 5 yard so I just put my printed out reservations on my dashboard at the boat ramp.

Very clean restrooms nice camping spots and close to the boat launch!
We will com back!

Beautiful views of Roosevelt Lake and the surrounding hills. Campground was well maintained, clean bathrooms, friendly camp hosts. Great weather in the winter months, can get very hot in the summer. Great for bass and croppie fishing when the water warms up.

Loved the campground. But the ground level plants with millions of stickers were sticking all over my dog. No way to get away from them. View was good. Neighbors were friendly.

We stayed at the Coyote loop for two nights. It is a very nice campground with great views of the Roosevelt lake during the day, and dark sky at night for watching the stars, close to Tonto national monument and the town of Globe. Restroom was very clean. But you better bring a flashlight with you since the light inside was controlled by motion sensor, and it turned off very quickly.