Alamo Campground is nestled against small, rocky mountains and located right at the opening of Alamo Canyon. The campground includes four primitive sites, each with a picnic table and standing grill. Thick stands of organ pipe cacti and saguaros surround the campground. To the south of the campground is a wash where the canyon exits; the wash is full of desert greenery. In the center of the campground is a small informational bulletin board, and close by is a vault toilet restroom.

Primitive, four-site campground at the mouth of Alamo Canyon. No RVs, trailers or generators.

Alamo Canyon Camping Fee

Holders of the interagency senior or access pass are entitled to half price camping.

Alamo Canyon Campground- Senior/Access Rate

A wash runs with water below cacti and a large mountain

Alamo Scenery

tent pitched on the ground at alamo canyon in front of saguaro and organ pipe cacti

tent At Alamo Canyon Campground

Campground site with a picnic table and standing grill, with mountains and canyon in the background

Alamo Campground

The Alamo Canyon information sign is located near the vault toilet.

Information Sign and Bathroom

Photo of a picnic table and charcoal grill from a campsite

Picnic Table and Grill

A circle of rocks indicate the location of a tent site at the campground

Tent Site

The accessible parking is close to the pit toilet

Accessible Parking and Pit Toilet

Garbage Bins

The Alamo Canyon trail is surrounded by many kinds of cacti and leads into the mountains

Alamo Canyon Trail

The road sign for Alamo Canyon Campground points down a dirt road

Road Sign

Alamo Canyon Primitive Campground

Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  You can self-register 24 hours a day at the campground.

When you drive up the road to the campsite, there is a small fee collection booth, sometimes staffed by a park ranger. Twin Peaks Campground is a large campground with spaces moderately spread out among sixteen curved rows of campsites. Healthy organ pipe cacti and saguaros are dispersed throughout the campsite. Several restrooms are spread throughout the campsite. A trail circles the border of the campground, and in the southwest corner of the campground, a paved trail leads to an amphitheater. The campground is located on flat terrain, with views of mountains in Mexico to the south, the Ajo Mountains to the east, and the Twin Peaks range to the North. The campground road continues westward into the Group Campground. The Group Campground has five large spaces, each with a ramada and picnic table. A restroom is located in the center of the Group Campground. The Group Campground is surrounded by hills dotted with organ pipe cactus and other cacti.

Twin Peaks Campground is the main, developed campground at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, located 1.5 miles from the Kris Eggle Visitor Center and Highway 85. Twin Peaks Campground has 34 tent-only sites and 174 sites for RVs. Several sites can accommodate RVs up to 45 feet in length. Restrooms have running water and a few have solar showers. Hookups for electricity, water, or sewer are not available. A dump station, with potable water is located past the last row of campsites.

Per night, per site (camping fees are in addition to entry fees)

Twin Peaks Campground Fee

Per night, per site (camping fees are in addition to entry fees).

Twin Peaks Campground Fee: Senior/ Access Pass

Group Camping Fee

Male and female sit at a desert campground site with a camper van in the background

RV Sites at Twin Peaks Campground

A picnic table and grill sit under a shade shelter in Twin Peaks Campground

Twin Peaks Accessible Site

The driveway of a campground site with a blue and white wheelchair accessible symbol painted on it.

Twin Peaks Campground Drivewayq

A picnic table and grill in a campground site

Twin Peaks Campground Site 1

man putting up an orange tent on a gravel tent pad in the desert

Tent sites at Twin Peaks Campground

Campsite with a picnic table, paved pad, raised grill, and blooming barrel cacti

Twin Peaks Campground

View of many RVs in campground, surrounded by desert landscape with mountains in the distance

Look closely. Look again. The sights and sounds of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, an International Biosphere Reserve, reveal a thriving community of plants and animals. Human stories echo throughout this desert preserve, chronicling thousands of years of desert living. A scenic drive, wilderness hike or a night of camping will expose you to a living desert that thrives.