Patagonia Lake State Park

Patagonia Lake Now Offers 24/7 Online Campground Reservations!

Reserve a campground RV or tent site from the comfort of your home, anytime of day. Make online reservations . Site reservations for this park are also available by calling the Reservation Center at (520) 586-2283. You can call 7 days a week, from 8 am to 5 pm MST. There is a $5 non-refundable reservation fee per site. Select sites are closed, see note below.

May 18: Annual Mariachi Festival

Entrance Station Opens at 7 am. $15 Per Vehicle (up to four adults). Spice up your spring with the Annual Mariachi Festival. Enjoy a wide variety of Southern Arizona Mariachi bands on stage. Featuring authentic Mexican food, hot dogs, hamburgers, kettle corn & shaved ice! Visitors may also bring their own picnic basket and there will be a Piñata for the kids! Don’t forget to bring: Plenty of water, lawn chair, sunscreen, hat. In addition, Patagonia offers fishing, birding, boat tours, and nature walks. Download Event Flier ( 319 KB PDF)

10:00 am: Mariachi Sonido De Mexico (Band)
11:00 am: Cholla High Magnet School (Band)
Noon: Dance Group Ballet Folklórico Tapatio (Dance Group)
1:00 pm: Mariachi Aztlan, Pueblo High School (Band)
2:00 pm: Nogales High School Apaches (Band)
3:00 pm: Mariachi Alegre (Band)

Visitor Center is Closed for Season, Will Re-Open in Oct. 2013

The Visitor Center at Patagonia Lake SP is now closed for the season. The park's hikes, programs and boat tours will resume again the fall.

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Rent a canoe or a rowboat for the day, or bring your own boat and enjoy Patagonia Lake State Park.

Tucked away in the rolling hills of southeastern Arizona is a hidden treasure. Patagonia Lake State Park was established in 1975 as a state park and is an ideal place to find whitetail deer roaming the hills and great blue herons walking the shoreline. The campground overlooks a 265-acre man-made lake where anglers catch crappie, bass, bluegill, and catfish. Trout is stocked every three weeks from October through March. The tracks of the New Mexico/Arizona railroad lie beneath the lake and remnants of the old historic line may be found at the Nature Conservancy in Patagonia. Hikers can stroll along the beautiful creek trail and see a variety of birds such as the canyon towhee, Inca dove, vermilion flycatcher, black vulture, and several species of hummingbirds.

The park offers a beach, picnic area with ramadas, tables & grills, a creek trail, boat ramps, a marina, and the Lakeside Market (telephone 520-287-5545). There is a campground, boat-in camp sites, restrooms, showers, and a dump station. The Lakeside Market offers boat rentals, fishing licenses, bait, ice, and more.

At two and a half miles long and 250 surface acres, Patagonia Lake State Park is popular for a variety of recreational activities, including water skiing, fishing, camping, picnicking, and hiking. Please note: Personal Water Craft (PWCs), jet-skis, waterbikes, above-water exhausts boats, and V-8 jet boats are all prohibited.

Created by the damming of Sonoita Creek, the lake is habitat for bass, crappie, bluegill, and catfish, and is stocked with rainbow trout during the winter. For anglers' sake, the east half of the lake is designated a no wake area. A handicap fishing dock is located at the marina and behind the Sonoita Creek visitor center. Because the lake attracts a multitude of water sports enthusiasts during summer months, water skiing or towing a recreational device is prohibited on weekends and holidays from May 1 through September 31st.

Camping ranges from undeveloped spots to sites with water and electric hookups. Park conveniences include picnic ramadas, a swimming beach, and a marina store with boat rentals. Entry to the park is allowed from 4 am until 11 pm and access is from State Route 82 between Patagonia and Nogales. Park conveniences include picnic ramadas, a swimming beach, and a marina store with boat rentals.

Patagonia Lake State Park and the Sonoita Creek State Natural Area are located next to each other in Patagonia, Arizona. The Natural Area conserves the land in its natural state, so you won’t find restrooms or modern camping facilities in the Natural Area.

Use Patagonia Lake State Park as your base camp to enjoy the hiking, horseback riding, and natural surroundings of the Sonoita Creek area. Please practice “Leave No Trace” ethics.

Bird Sightings (Feb. 11 - 25, 2013)

Mallard
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Black-crowned Night Heron
Green Heron
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Spotted Sandpiper
Mourning Dove
White-winged Dove
Ruddy Ground-Dove
White-throated Swift
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Elegant Trogon
Belted Kingfisher
Gila Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Hammond's Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermillion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Hutton's Vireo
Cassin's Vireo
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Bridled Titmouse
Verdin
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Bewick’s Wren
Cactus Wren
Canyon Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Black-capped Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
Townsend's Solitaire
Northern Mockingbird
Curve-billed Thrasher
Phainopepla
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Hepatic Tanager
Green-tailed Towhee
Canyon Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Great-tailed Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow

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