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Wet Beaver Campground and Picnic Area
Coordinates: 34.6694644, -111.7140698 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Wet Beaver Campground and Picnic Area
Beaver Creek is popular for picnicking and birding year round, and water play in the summer. The area has limited space and easily gets overcrowded on hot days and holiday weekends. There are two separate sections to the day use facility at Beaver Creek.

Large Fee Site: The largest section is a developed picnic facility with 18 sites that all include a table, grill, drinking water, trash cans, vault toilets, and parking for one to two vehicles per site. Small No-Fee Site: The second section is a small free day use section across the road from the fee site with three picnic sites, port-o-johns, and shared parking for a maximum of eight vehicles. There is no drinking water or trash service on this side. Visitors must pack out their own trash, and be prepared with enough water for their needs. If you use this free section, you are not permitted to use any of the services in the fee area where visitors are paying for those services such as drinking water, trash, toilets, etc. From Wet Beaver Creek Day Use Site webpage

Tips for birding Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness
The campground can be a quicker alternative to birding the creek than hiking the trail. While the day use area on the west side of the road is less crowded and has access to hiking trails, the campground itself can be good for its feeders. Look for mixed flocks in migration and for flocks of juncos and other sparrows in winter.

The Wet Beaver Creek Trail is beautiful and can be very good birding, but can be crowded in warm weather. Both Zone-tailed and Common Black-Hawks are common here. This is a great spot to view breeding birds in the arid juniper habitat on the north side of the trail as well as the lush riparian on the south side. Listen for Cactus and Canyon Wrens singing from the slopes above. Wintering flocks can be impressive. If you're inclined, come prepared to enjoy fantastic (though cold) swimming holes. From Northern Arizona Audubon Society

About Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness
This tucked away desert oasis is the smallest of four major canyons that cut the Coconino National Forest's red rock rim country. Though it may be small, the scenery you'll find here is none the less impressive. Much of the narrow steep-sided gorge Wet Beaver Creek Canyon has carved into the Colorado Plateau's southern face is quite remote and few people venture into its inner depths. The easiest access is upstream from the canyon mouth along a well-used hiking trail. Even in this case reaching the gorge's more remote upper stretches is no easy task. Continuing upstream beyond where the Bell Trail climbs out of the canyon and out of the wilderness requires swimming or wading a number of cold water pools which stretch from wall to canyon wall.

Most of those who come here confine their visit to the area's lower, more accessible reaches which provide a popular place to swim, fish, camp, and hike in a picturesque, setting. Others venture upstream of Bell Crossing where the solitude deepens as you venture further from this area's more popular haunts. From Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness web site

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