Slide Rock State Park is a day-use park
Slide Rock is a timed-entry day-use park around a 1908 apple orchard and a natural sandstone slide — no in-park RV camping, stage at Cave Spring or Pine Flat USFS instead.
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None (dry)
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N/A — day-use only · timed-entry reservations required
Oak Creek runs through a 1908-vintage apple orchard that the Pendley family planted and the state acquired in 1985 — and the eponymous natural sandstone water slide draws so much summer demand from Phoenix and Flagstaff that the park introduced a timed-entry reservation system in 2021. Day-use only: no developed campground, no RV overnight inventory at all. Rigs of any length can enter on day-use tickets but the entrance station limits Class A motorhomes when Highway 89A's narrow canyon section bottlenecks. RV staging for Oak Creek Canyon routes to Cave Spring USFS Campground (7 miles north, dry-camp 25-ft cap), Pine Flat USFS (similar), or Sedona's private RV parks 8 miles south. The slide itself is open year-round but the water temperature drops to lap-pool territory November through March.
Managing agency
Arizona State Parks & Trails
Primary sources
How to book this park
Reservations + RV staging
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Arizona rules · last verified 2026-05-10
- Rental tax
- 8.30%
- Min driver age
- 21+ std · 25+ Class A
- Gravel roads
- Allowed — no restriction
- Generator quiet
- 22:00-08:00
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