Forest Road 687 Dispersed Camping

Like all the reviews have said the road in is a long 10 miles, but I’m a glass half full type person. Take your time and enjoy the beauty if you are coming from the East climbing the mountain. I would recommend coming in from the West off HWY 80 as you aren’t climbing a mountain and this road isn’t tight if you have a big rig. Our rig is 28 ft but can easily fit a toy hauler if you have one. While we were here there were at least 50 other campers, but this land is so big our closest neighbor was a quarter mile away. The views of the sunsets are to die for especially if you climb to the top of the rocks to watch it set. From this park you are roughly 25 miles to the classic town of Tombstone. I recommend a visit here and watch a gun fight show. Hands down one of my most favorite little towns I have visited.

We spent 5 nights here and really enjoyed walking through the fields and hiking among the interesting rock formations. We parked at the end of the road that forked to the right, and the area was very popular among rock climbers. There was some noise of course with folks coming and going, but nothing problematic. Our only qualm with this place is the road to get in. As everyone has mentioned, the ~9 mile washboard road is exhausting. We had packed our trailer as we normally do but ended up with a broken glass and a very messy pantry by the time we reached our site it was so bad. We had planned to make day excursions out to do sightseeing, but the road was so annoying that we just waited to all of our sightseeing on the day we left. We stayed here during the week, but it sounds like this place is popular on the weekend among ATV riders and climbers, so weekends may not be quite as peaceful.

As for internet, we drove around all of the sites when we first arrived trying to find the best signal for our AT&T hotspot. There were some areas where we had absolutely nothing, and some areas where it was fine. Depending on your provider and your internet needs, you may have to try out a few spots to get what you need.

We drove to this location from Kartchner Caverns where we were camped. We planned to disperse camp here after we explored. I must admit that nearly 10 miles of rough, bumpy, and washboard road caused us to pass. There were many others enjoying the area, and I really wanted to as well. New 5th, made me pass...

Oh and there was one apparently abandoned campsite with lots of motorcycle parts left covered by tarps.

No joke about the 10 miles of washboard road to get to 687. Couldn’t go more than 15mph. We are in 38ft class A with a small truck towed. No issues getting in or finding an ample site to fit us. I have AT&T and there is hardly any service. But it’s a short drive back into Tombstone. The views of the Dragoon MTNs are amazing!! The sites are spread apart and it was very peaceful to stay here. Nice hiking trails everywhere!! Just go slow on middlemarch road, it’s a rough one!!

With the high rating of this place I will say I was a little worried about finding a nice site as I’m enduring the 10 miles of dust and washboard road to get here, but to my surprise there’s all kind of nice sites here. The smaller the rig the more choices you have like any boondocking you do. I pull a 26’ TT and didn’t see any big class A’s but you would have plenty of room for them. More than half the site’s, your only view is the beautiful Dragoon mountains and not your neighbors. The locals love it up here as well, so their is some daytime traffic.
The real reason I wanted to add a review was nothing was mentioned on T-Mobile cell signal. Mine bounced around between 1 and 2 bars but like my Verizon which had 3 would totally loose downloads for no apparent reason. All I could think of it’s a busy tower.

A long rough dirt road, wide and hard but rough, take the left at the fork and just start looking for a spot. Do not follow google map coming in across mountain by ghost town in an rv or pulling a trailer, come in frome the tombstone side (see picture of map attached) great quite place tombstone was the best, also if you can run down to Lowell just south of Bisbee

Of our 5 different camping sites on our trip to southern AZ, this one was by far the best. A beautiful, whimsical playground of rock laden mountains, massive peanut shaped boulders, interesting deciduous trees, and sweeping grassland. Campsites were large, level, and full of fun attributes. Relatively easy 25 min drive from Tombstone and the first sites you come to are very easy to access off the main forest road, BUT to get to the best sites up against the rocks, you really want at least a high clearance vehicle if not a 4x4. We have neither and incurred a little bit of damage getting to our site. Good Verizon 4g coverage. Would love to have been able to spend a few more days here.

Arrived a Friday afternoon, really quite and most all sites occupied. Found a little spot on a spur for an access to another non used trail road. Pretty busy cars coming and going but all in all very quiet. In the evening all quiet and an awesome view of the Dragoon mountains. Definitely will return but need a toy to explore the mountains for old mining sites. Marshburn road very wide and accessible a little washboard went at around 20 mph. Cell coverage good enough to work with.