Potato Patch Campground


Camp Verde, Arizona
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Ownership: US Forest Service
Official website: fs.fed.us
Posted by: MountainMan on December 10, 2005
 

Description

Located atop Mingus Mountain at 7,000 feet in ponderosa pines, this family campground offers you cool summertime temperatures and fairly easy access via a paved and winding mountain road.Potato Patch Campground consists of two loops. Loop A has 28 campsites. Three of the campsites are accessible to the disabled. One campsite is a multiple family unit that has space for four vehicles. Campsites in Loop A cost $10 a night per site except the multiple family site which is $20 a night. Two accessible toilets are located in this loop, and water is available by the toilets.Loop B has 12 units designed to accomodate up to 40 foot long Recreational Vehicles. Two of the units are accessible to the disabled. Electricity is available at each camp unit. The prise for Loop B is $15 a night. One accessible toilet is in Loop B and water is available at the toilet.Potato Patch is a seasonal campground which is open May 1 through October 30.

Directions

From Prescott, take U.S. Highway 89 north to Granite Dells, turn right onto U. S. Highway 89A and travel approximately 20 miles to the top of Mingus Mountain. Potato Patch Campground entrance will be to your left at the summit on Forest Road 106.From the Verde Ranger Station in Camp Verde, travel approximately 20 miles northwest on U.S. Highway 260 going towards the towns of Cottonwood and Clarkdale. At the junction of U.S. Highway 260 and U.S. Highway 89A,turn left and follow the paved and winding mountain road through the town of Jerome up to the summit on Mingus Mountain. The campground turnoff will be to your right which is Forest Road 106.
 

Activities

Woodchute Wilderness and Woodchute Trailhead #102.Historic mining town of Jerome 8 miles northeast on U.S. Highway 89A.

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Services

28 family campsites with tables, grills, and campfire rings in Loop A3 barrier free access sites and 2 barrier free toilets12 Recreational Vehicle units with tables and eletrical hookups2 barrier free access sites and 1 barrier free toiletDrinking waterEach site has a 40 foot paved driveway.

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Reviews of Potato Patch



Reviewed by allevoo on June 8, 2011

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Nice, large, paved pullthrough RV sites with electric hookups (30 and 15 amp). Not a lot of privacy between sites, but there was only one other camper when we were there, not crowded at all. We took our toddler and 4 month old, they had fun playing outside in the gorgeous weather. Host was great, short daytrip into Jerome or Prescott. If coming up from Phoenix in an RV, do NOT go through Jerome, go through Prescott! We learned the hard way and white-knuckled it the whole way there. The drive out was much better :-)
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