Campground Overview:
In 1885, Thomas Jefferson Adair moved into the area with the intention of farming. The locals joked that only a fool would try and farm the place. The name stuck! The tiny town of Adair has long since been covered by the lake, but it was Adair who was responsible for the name Fool Hollow.
Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area, located in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, opened in 1994 as a result of cooperation between the U.S. Forest Service, Arizona State Parks, Arizona Game and Fish and the city of Show Low in partnership with Arizona Public Service and McCarty Construction Company. Today, visitors can camp among the tall pines and hike along the lake at a cool 6,300 feet in elevation. Year-round camping, fishing, picnicking, boating and wildlife viewing opportunities make Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area a popular place.
Campsites:
Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area has 31 sites: Maximum of two vehicles and six adults per site, 12 people total. Concrete pads, fire ring and picnic table, restrooms and showers.
Another 92 sites include: 30 Amp service (some 50 Amp available). Can accommodate up to 40-foot rigs. Water available at all sites. Mallard and Redhead Loops also have sewer available. Maximum of two vehicles and six adults each, 12 people total.
Campground at a Glance
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Developed w/ Shower |
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Year-Round |
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Show Low |
Fishing: |
Fool Hollow |
Campground Website: |
Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area |
Campground Map: |
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Nearby Attractions and Activities:
Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area is located in the world’s largest contiguous belt of ponderosa pine forest. A relatively flat basaltic plateau, broken by Show Low Creek and Fool Hollow Wash, characterizes the property. Fool Hollow Lake was created by construction of a dam at the confluence of Show Low Creek and Fool Hollow Wash in 1957 by the Arizona Game and Fish Department with federal assistance. This created a 149 surface acre lake surrounded by National Forest lands.
Other area attractions include the Sipes White Mountain And Allen Severson Wildlife Area located near Show Low. Visitors are encouraged to look through the center first and then explore the grounds to enhance their wildlife viewing experience. Move about the property freely by hiking, biking or horseback riding on one of four trails leading to wetlands, meadows and old homesteads. Pintail Wetlands Nature Trail # 617 guides hikers around Pintail Lake. The wetlands offer an array of water birds, including waterfowl such as cinnamon teal, ruddy duck, gadwall, bufflehead, American wigeon and pintail.
Lyman Lake State Park was created as an irrigation reservoir by damming the Little Colorado River, Lyman Lake State Park is a 1,200-acre park that encompasses the shoreline of a 1,500-acre reservoir at an elevation of 6,000 feet. It is fed by snowmelt from the slopes of Mount Baldy and Escudilla Mountain, the second and third highest mountains in Arizona.
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, administered as one national forest, encompasses over two million acres of magnificent mountain country in east-central Arizona. The major attractions for the visitors from the desert are the Mogollon Rim and eight cold-water lakes. From the Mogollon (pronounced: muggy-own) Rim’s 7,600- foot elevation, vista points provide inspiring views of the low lands to the south. The Rim extends two hundred miles from Flagstaff into western New Mexico.
White Mountain Trail System is a series of multi-use, major loop trails and connector trails in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests ranging from the community of Vernon on the east out to the communities of Clay Springs and Linden in the west.
White Mountain Apache Cultural Center and Museum, originally established in 1969, stands as a monument to the Tribe’s historical resiliency and ongoing commitment to celebrate and perpetuate Apache heritage. The Cultural Center serves as a repository for the Tribe’s cultural heritage through the preservation of oral histories, archival materials and objects of cultural, historical and artistic significance to the White Mountain Apache people. A visit to the Culture Center also entitles visitation to the Fort Apache National Historic Park and Kineshba Ruins National Historic Landmark, also administered by the Tribe’s Heritage Program and located five miles west of Fort Apache.
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