Official websites use .gov
A .gov
website belongs to an official government organization in the
United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock
(
) or https:// means you've safely
connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only
on official, secure websites.
Welcome to the Kaibab National Forest!
A Diverse Landscape To Enjoy!
If you are anywhere near Arizona, you won't want to miss the chance to visit us as the forest surrounds the northern and southern portions of the majestic Grand Canyon. From canyons to prairies, peaks to plateaus, the Kaibab offers layers of opportunity for peace, solitude & discovery.
Plan Your Visit
-
Recreation
Camping, cabins, hiking, scenic drives, fishing and snow play - the Kaibab has opportunities for everyone year round.
-
Find Your Way
Be prepared with maps in your format: interactive, downloadable, and print, including Motor Vehicle Use maps and travel aids.
-
Forest Products
The Kaibab offers opportunities for firewood collection as well as other forest products such as corral poles, fence posts, and stays, Christmas trees, wilding transplants, pine cones and more.
Get Involved
-
Comment Period Open for Legacy Road & Trail Projects
The Legacy Road & Trails program is accepting comments on proposed projects for fiscal years 2025 and 2026. Submit comments by July 14.
-
Smokey Bear Reading Challenge
Help celebrate Smokey Bear's 80th Birthday.
Learn More About the Kaibab
-
Hopi Waters For Life
The Waters for Life project is a long-term co-stewardship effort between the Hopi Tribe & the Kaibab National Forest that focuses on the protection and restoration of Hopi Traditional Cultural Properties including natural seeps & springs.
-
New National Monument Designated
The Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument comprises 917,618 acres acres of land managed by the Kaibab National Forest and Bureau of Land Management around Grand Canyon National Park. Designating the new national monument, which contains ancestral homelands of many Tribes, will preserve its important historic, cultural, natural, scientific, and recreational values.
Kaibab National Forest Current and Recent Projects
Developing Proposal
-
Mangum Fire Reforestation Project
Reforestation (i.e., Tree Planting~5,000 acres; Natural Regeneration~2000 acres; & Natural Recovery~900 acres) of moderate and severe burn areas in the 2020 Mangum Fire Burn Scar. Under the 2021 REPLANT Act, areas to be replanted within 10 years.
-
SCUTA Telecommunications - Fredonia to Jacob Lake, AZ Fiber Optics Installation Project
Installation of fiber-optic cable from Fredonia to Jacob Lake, AZ along FS Roads 22, 462, 461, and U.S. Hwy. 89-A. The network will benefit 24 residences, a farm, several businesses, and state and federal agencies who own or manage land in this area.
Under Analysis
-
Anita Communication Site Fiber Optic
To bring fiber optic connectivity to the Anita Communication Site to provide reliable internet service.
-
Arizona National Scenic Trail Comprehensive Plan
The comprehensive plan will establish the administrative objectives, policies, processes, and management guidelines necessary to fulfill the legislative requirements for national scenic trails under the National Trails System Act.
-
Arizona Trail Reroute and Decommissioning
This project would decommission a section of the Arizona Trail that goes through a drainage and adopt the user-created trail that is currently being used.
-
Burnt Corral Vegetation Management Project
The purposes of the Burnt Corral project is to improve forest health and vigor, while improving habitat conditions which are more resilient to change in the event of wildfire and/or other climatic condition changes. Project = 28,090 acres.
-
Fiber Optic Cable To Greenbase
The purpose is to connect high-speed and high-capacity internet service to a Forest Service facility to support working with modern software and applications that require higher capacity data transmission.
-
Fiber Optic to Tusayan Ranger Station
The purpose of this project is to bring fiber optic connectivity to the Tusayan Communication Site and the Tusayan Ranger Station. This will provide reliable internet access to the Forest Service offices.
-
Northern Arizona Wildlife Crossings
Construction of three highway overpasses to allow wildlife passage. Two overpasses will be on Interstate 17 and One will be on Interstate 40 in northern Arizona.
-
Rain Tank Allotment Grazing Re-Authorization
Analyze the effects of re-authorizing a 10-year term grazing permit on the allotment, including changes to number of animal unit months, additional water catchments and repair and extention of a water pipeline.
-
Yavapai-Apache Nation Land Exchange
The Prescott National Forest is proposing a land exchange between the Prescott, Coconino, Kaibab, and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests and the Yavapai-Apache Nation (YAN). More information at https://yavapai-apache.org/land-exchange
Analysis Completed
-
APS Deer Farm Road New Service Connection
APS is requesting to dig a 12-foot trench along Old Route 66 to place a new utility run that will connect to the new DW Tower, LLC communication site on private land. Currently, the site is not connected to electrical services.
-
Bill Williams Mountain Restoration Project
The purpose of the project is to improve the health and sustainability of forested conditions on and surrounding Bill Williams Mountain by reducing hazardous fuels and moving vegetative conditions in the project area toward desired conditions.
-
Four-Forest Restoration Initiative EIS: Kaibab and Coconino
Implementation of forest restoration activities including thinning of trees, prescribed fire treatments, and watershed and road restoration within 988,764 acres of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests. See www.fs.usda.gov/4fri for information.
-
House Rock Wildlife Area Bison Infrastructure Project
Construct a new wildlife water in the northwest portion of the HRWA, and rebuild/re-establish, construct and install approximately 12 miles of existing and new pasture fence-line (including associated cattle-guards) within the HRWA.
-
Kaibab Plateau Ecological Restoration Project (KPEP)
The Forest Service is proposing vegetation thinning within a 518,000-acre project area on the NKRD by using prescribed fire and small-dia. tree thinning resulting in 319,000 acres of fuels treatments, and forest vegetation and watershed improvements.
-
Mangum Fire Emergency Actions / Hazard Tree Removal Project
Targeted removal of hazard trees along approximately 2 miles of highway ROW, 17 miles of FS Roads, 10 miles of trails, 55 miles of range allotment & pasture/boundary fence-lines, and around developed water features on approximately 3,000 acres.
-
Rock Pit Development: Coconino and Kaibab National Forests
Development of up to 39 rock pits affecting a total of 434 acres on the Coconino and Kaibab national forests to provide materials for surfacing roads to maintain safe and sustainable road conditions.
-
Tusayan Community Trails Project
The Town of Tusayan has proposed construction of approx. 12.5 mi of new foot and bike trails and trailhead facilities to augment and link existing trails in the Tusayan area, providing safe and sustainable trail routes for visitors and residents.
On Hold
-
Drake Bill Williams Pozzolan Exploration
Drake Cement has submitted a draft Plan of Operations to explore for pozzolan by digging 8 trenches south of the City of Williams at the eastern base of Bill Williams Mtn near Perkinsville Rd. Level of NEPA analysis to be determined after scoping.
-
Prescott College Academic Outfitter and Guide Priority Use (2015-2025)
The Forest Service proposes to authorize Prescott College to conduct academic field courses year-round across forests in Arizona including adventure education, biology, human ecology, natural history, physical geography, & field ecology.
-
Seismic Research
University of Arizona is requesting to do seismology fieldwork to model the distribution of magma beneath the San Francisco Volcanic Field in northern Arizona.
Cancelled
-
House Rock Wildlife Area (HRWA) Habitat Management Planning
Plan management activities to optimize wildlife habitat in HRWA, particularly for pronghorn, deer and bison. Actions may include thinning trees and shrubs to increase forage, and fence or use water to manage distribution of animals.
-
Mangum Fire Emergency Actions / Hazard Tree Removal Project
Targeted removal of hazard trees along approximately 2.5 miles of highway right-of-way, 40 miles of Forest Service (FS) roads, 10 miles of trails, and 55 miles of fence lines in the Mangum Fire burn area on the NKRD.
-
Outfitter and Guide Term Permit
The Kaibab National Forest is seeking to transition outfitter and guides from temporary use permits to term permits. These permits would be issued to companies with history of use on the Forest. Eliminating the need for reissuing permits annually.
-
Railroad Tank Dam Land Exchange
Exchange up to approx. 0.94 ac of private land for up to approx. 0.94 ac of adjacent FS land to allow construction of drainage features to mitigate flood risk posed by Railroad Tank Dam. Flood risk mitigation analyzed in separate 2017 NEPA.
Project Archive
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.
