Crown King Area (Horsethief Basin)

US Forest Service · Arizona

Crown King Area (Horsethief Basin) in Arizona. Ringed marker is this site; the other dots are the 327 public campsites we map in Arizona.

Horsethief Basin Recreation Area offers a variety of recreational opportunities including: hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, camping, fishing, and OHV riding. Castle Creek Wilderness is located nearby, and Horsethief Cabin and Turney Gulch Group Campground are available by reservation. Day use sites and trails are open year-round; overnight accomodations are not available during the winter. Scroll down (below the recreation map) to learn more about these recreational opportunities.

What we know about it

Managed by

US Forest Service

Fee

Not published (the agency does not list one)

Booking

first-come, first-served

Dogs

Allowed on a leash (USFS policy)

Coordinates

34.21060, -112.33610

Nearest sites we map

• Turney Gulch Group6 km · US Forest Service
• Hazlett Hollow Campground6 km · US Forest Service
• Horsethief Cabin7 km · US Forest Service
• Little Pan Staging Area28 km · Bureau of Land Management
• Upper Wolf Creek Group29 km · US Forest Service
• Lower Wolf Creek Campground29 km · US Forest Service

Source: Recreation.gov, dated 2026-02-25, fetched 2026-09-07. Official listing.

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