White Spar Campground

Dates of stay: Oct. 27 - Nov. 6, 2019 Price reflects 50% Access Pass discount, regular price $10

Campground/Campsite: No hookups, water in park, pit toilets, dumpsters. This campground is not entirely big-rig friendly. We used satellite computer mapping when reserving our space, and we were very happy in full sun for our solar. It appeared that our site #6 was the only one with full sun as well as being the only pull-thru. On Nov. 1, all but the area we were in closed for the year. All campsites were reserved during our stay, but a big cold snap kept everyone from showing up, so be advised that late October appears to be an otherwise busy time. Camp hosts are onsite. There are several trails with easy access from the park offering a wide variety of distances.

Location: This campground is mere minutes -- and a straight shot -- from charming downtown Prescott, where you can find all the amenities you need as well as miles of lovely walking and biking trails. It is close to the main road, so there will be some road noise, mostly during the day.

Other: OATV, Verizon cell service was often 4G/LTE 2 bars, but would sometimes drop to 3G service

Critters spotted: tarantulas, Juncos, Acorn Woodpeckers (everywhere! trees riddled with their stored food!)

We would have given this place 5 stars but the bathrooms were horrible. We found out that they only pump the toilets once a season and it's close to impossible for the camp host to keep it clean with all the sewage. There were no odors outside of the bathrooms but basically unusable.
The campground was clean and the areas were well maintained. Each has a concrete picnic table and campfire ring. Lots of spots to choose from but since it was our first time we only could tell from the pictures on the web what each site looked like. We got lucky with site 5. There are several pull through site and we will definitely be back to stay in site 4, site 32 & 33, and a couple others! Many are not completely flat but all on asphalt.
It's about 3 miles to downtown Prescott where there is supposedly a festival in the courthouse park every weekend. Lots of great little local shops and if you like to eat out for breakfast definitely check out the Lone Star Cafe. If you are looking for breweries or meaderies definitely check out Granite Mountain Brewing and Superstition Meadery. Both great atmosphere and great unique drinks.
Affinity RV is your place for repairs. Good people and super helpful. They have a dump station for free there.
If you forgot something there is a full town on the other side of the hill in Prescott Valley with a Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc.
This place has a little of everything!

Front part of campground was quiet and relaxing even when full on the weekend. Back part of campground where tent campers were at was quite rowdy.

Be forewarned that only 3 of the 56 sites are walk in available with a 14 day limit. Other sites are reservable 2 days in advance so many sites were not “available” when I arrived or were only available for 1 or 2 nights.

Stayed here several times now and love this place. Close to Prescott, but quiet and peaceful. First stay here was 2018 and it was busy. Only one site available (site 56) and that worked. Needed to get some errands done in town and felt safe leaving my trailer here.

In 2019 I’ve stayed here 2 times now. February and March. Arrived Feb 27th to a foot of snow in site 1. Had to dig my way in, but in the 5 days I stayed, the snow eventually mostly melted.

There was some logging going on in Feb which was some logging trucks carrying out their loads. No big deal.

My wife and I camped here recently.
As it turned out, there is a logging operation going on around the campground, and it is very noisy with all of the heavy equipment operating in vicinity. The hiking and biking trails around the campground are all closed with the exception of one across the highway from the campground.
There is semi traffic into and out of the campground, and most of the woods on one side of the campground is "destroyed" by the logging operation.
If we'd know about the logging operation going on there, we would not have camped there!

Close to town. The downside is that this campground is also close enough to Highway 89 to get a fair amount of road noise. Campsite 8 is not for beginners with travel trailers as you need to back up from the campground road about 75 feet and make a 90 degree turn to the pad which is almost level (took a couple of blocks to level the trailer). If you are new to towing a trailer this is NOT the campsite for you. Overall, clean and well maintained campsites.

This campground is in the forest only a few miles from town and we used our Senior Passes to get the 1/2 price rate of $7, great value! No hookups but there are water spigots to fill containers throughout the park, newer pit toilets (which were reasonably clean), the sites (picnic table, fire ring) are well cared for. We scoped out the park a few months ago to make a list of the level sites and to ensure our 22' travel trail and pickup would fit. Quite a few would have worked for us. A little highway noise, but not disturbing to us. A nice group of hiking trails at the park entrance. The park was far from full on a Sunday when we arrived but the weekends, especially in the summer, likely fills up fast.

Note, there is not a dump station in the park but you can dump at Affinity RV in town for free, which can be busy since there is no cost and fresh water for filling tanks (no cost) and propane is available there too at an affordable price. We filled our propane tanks there since the dump and water was complimentary, just good business!