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Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115)
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AK · 66.55800, -150.79320
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Can I go now? — Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115) · Bureau of Land Management · AK
Open today Season May 15 – Sep 30 (about). Closes after Sep 30. Weather can shorten it.
Bureau of Land Management record: “Campground is open from mid-May through end of September (depending on snowfall).” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,314 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115)NIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115) · Bureau of Land Management · AK
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel32 mi
- @Mail32 mi
- LLaundry32 mi
- ShShower32 mi
- +Urgent care32 mi
- EVEV fast charger146 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 32 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 146-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Water, Dump, Propane, Grocery. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
1,314 ft
Ground slope
9.3% · noticeable
State
AK
Coordinates
66.55800, -150.79320
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115) · Bureau of Land Management · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Resupply lookup unavailable — try the map links below.
EV charging — from Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger146.0 mi straight-line SE — Fairbanks, AK - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 7 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-04-21 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · none within 100 · 3 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS146.1 mi — Nenana, AK - Tesla Supercharger, Nenana
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO146.7 mi — Golden Valley Electric Fairbanks, Fairbanks
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)none listed within 150 mi
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 447391 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletArctic Circle Campground Vault Toilet-- On Center Road Thru Cg · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletArctic Circle Wayside Vault Toilet #1(Cxt)--North · ~0.5 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletArctic Circle Wayside Vault Toilet #2(Cxt)--South · ~0.5 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletArctic Circle Truckers Wayside Vault Toilet(Cxt) · ~0.5 mi W · BLM
Coming out here — Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115) · Bureau of Land Management · AK
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 9.3% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (5 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
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The unit that manages Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115)
Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115) is in the Central Yukon Field Office, Fairbanks District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115)
Open season
Campground is open from mid-May through end of September (depending on snowfall).
Source
public land records
Confidence
Agency-confirmed — The managing agency's own record names this as a campsite and puts it at these coordinates. About as good as it gets short of standing here.
How it was placed
https://www.blm.gov/visit/arctic-circle-campground (read 2026-08-17). THIS IS A FEE SITE -- FEE: $12 per night. First come, first served only -- BLM says you must physically arrive to claim and purchase a site, paying by QR code in the Recreation.gov mobile app (download it BEFORE you go; limited or no cell service). Open mid-May through end of September, depending on snowfall. 19 accessible campsites -- six pull-through, eleven back-in, two walk-in -- with fire rings, toilets, trash cans. Renovated 2021. Alaska state statute prohibits off-road vehicle use within five miles either side of the highway from the Yukon River to the Arctic Ocean. Nearest town/services per the page: Coldfoot / Fairbanks; Dalton Hwy MP 115, half a mile uphill from the Arctic Circle sign. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115)
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Arctic Circle Campground (Dalton Highway MP 115)
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