# Presentation: 890754

## Haigler Canyon Recreation Site

- Tonto National Forest
-  Pleasant Valley Ranger District

- Tonto National Forest
-  Pleasant Valley Ranger District

## Slide 2

## Project Summary

**Public Participation**

**Business Plan**

**Project Summary**

**Haigler Canyon Recreation Site**

**Location:** FR 200, 8 miles north of Young, AZ.
**Pre-Development facilities:**
-  4 vault toilets (not barrier-free)
-  Undeveloped parking
-  Throw down campsites and expanding barren areas
-  Party area trampling riparian habitat
-  Lower water crossing that vehicles were bogging down in the stream

-  1994 submitted as a capital improvement project

## Haigler Canyon Recreation Site

**Haigler Creek**

- Perennial stream and Riparian Habitat

## Haigler Canyon Recreation Site

**Motivations for Project**

- Barren Areas Adjacent to Stream And Loss of Riparian Habitat

- Design Narrative Concept
- Areas adjacent to stream were closed and revegetated.  Old toilets in the flood plain were removed.
- New use areas were located outside of stream channel at higher elevations.

**Closed Day-Use Site**

**PRE - DEVELOPMENT**

**WORK IN PROGRESS**

## Project Summary

**Post-Development:**
** **Congress appropriated funds in FY 2006  FS recreation site capital investment budget
-  Construction began Fall 2006 and will continue until July 2007
-  The site will consist of the following facilities: 2 camping areas and 2 day use areas and four vault toilets
-   The creek crossing will be upgraded as an add on contract
- With 14 camp sites the PAOT will be held to 70

**Project Summary**

## Slide 9

**Campground**

**PRE - DEVELOPMENT**

**WORK IN PROGRESS**

## Haigler Canyon Recreation Site

**DAY USE SITE**

**PRE - DEVELOPMENT**

**WORK IN PROGRESS**

**Existing Ford **

**Built by CCC -- CMRD Funding for Reconstruction**

## Business Plan

**Business Plan**

_**Financial Analysis**_
- Proposed Fee Rates:
-  Single-Family Camping - $6 per vehicle per night.  Collected via Iron Rangers and the Tonto Pass program available at commercial vendors and at Tonto National Forest office locations.
-  Single-Family Day Use – $6 per vehicle

## Business Plan

- 	            _1_	           _2_	           _3_	          _4_	          _5_
- _ACTIVITY_
- Camping	         3,400  	        3,500	        3,600	        3,800	        4,000
- Day-Use	         _3,200_            _3,300_            _3,400_             _3,600_            _3,800_
- TOTAL *RVD’s       6,600	        6,800	        7,000	         7,400 	        7,800
- *RVD – Recreation Visitor Day (one person for 12 hours)
- _Estimated Receipts By Year For 5 Years Starting in 2007 (dollars/year)_
- 	         _1_	           _2_	           _3_	          _4_	          _5_
- _ACTIVITY_
- Camping	         4,300  	        4,500	        4,600             4,900	       5,200
- Day-Use	        _ 1,800_	        _1,900_             _2,000_	        _2,100_	       _2,200_
- TOTAL  	         6,100	        6,400	        6,600	        7,000	       7,400
- _Estimated Operation and Maintenance Costs By Year For 5 Years (dollars/year)_
- 	            _1_	           _2_	           _3_	          _4_	          _5_
- _ACTIVITY_
- Camping	         5,000           5,100	        5,200	        5,300	      5,400
- Day-Use	         _3,300_	      _  3,400_	        _3,500_	        _3,600_          _ 3,700_
- TOTAL COSTS      8,300	        8,500	        8,700	        8,900           9,100
**Fee Revenue will be supplemented with appropriated funds to provide the balance of O&M costs.**

**Business Plan**

**Financial Analysis:**** ****(continued)**

**Fee information posted at site**

**Tonto Pass program logo**

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Comparisons:  Group and individual camping fees at similar nearby campgrounds are charged as follows:

**Comparisons:*****  ***Group and individual camping fees at similar nearby campgrounds are charged as follows:
_**ARIZONA STATE PARKS**_
_**Fool Hollow State Park**_*** - ***No reservation fee, First Come-First Served, $15/camp unit; $20/camp unit with hook-ups
_**Roper Lake State Park**_ - $10 reservation fee, $12/camp unit
_**Lost Dutchman State Park**_ - $25 reservation fee, $12/camp unit
_**USDA FOREST SERVICE**_
_**Houston Mesa Horse Camp **_– Single family camping $12/camp unit.
_**Upper Tonto Creek Campground **_- $10/camp unit, $5 for second vehicle_**                                                                                                                                       Black Canyon Rim Campground **_- $12/vehicle
_**Fraizer Campground **_- Single Family Camping $6/vehicle

## Public Participation

-   The public has been a part of planning the Haigler Canyon Recreation Site project since October, 2005, when public scoping started the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process.
-   The public was supportive of the efforts to improve the site throughout the planning and development phases.
-   It was made clear in all correspondence and publications that a fee for use of the finished site was planned to provide partial funding for the operation and maintenance of the new facilities.

## Public Notification Efforts:

Scoping Letters mailed to 259 individuals 10/7/05

Payson Roundup – Public notices 10/11/05 and 3/27/07

East Valley Tribune –  Public notices and news releases 4/2/06

Federal Register notice – 1/19/07

District Ranger meetings with Haigler homeowners and Community Council

Forest website and District Office – publications and information posted

E-mail/Fax/Telephone/In-person communications with numerous interested parties

**Scoping Letters mailed to 259 individuals 10/7/05**
**Payson Roundup – Public notices 10/11/05 and 3/27/07**
**East Valley Tribune –  Public notices and news releases 4/2/06**
**Federal Register notice – 1/19/07**
**District Ranger meetings with Haigler homeowners and Community Council**
**Forest website and District Office – publications and information posted**
**E-mail/Fax/Telephone/In-person communications with numerous interested parties**

**Public Participation**