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Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5)
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AK · 63.29010, -148.06293
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,491 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5)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 Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5) · 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
- WWater0 mi
- FFuel27 mi
- GGrocery27 mi
- @Mail27 mi
- EVEV fast charger27 mi
- DDump27 mi
- LLaundry27 mi
- ShShower27 mi
- OOutfitter40 mi
- +Urgent care41 mi
- HHardware50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 27 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. 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 — Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
2,491 ft
Ground slope
6.8% · gentle
State
AK
Coordinates
63.29010, -148.06293
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5) · Bureau of Land Management · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.0 mi
- FuelVitus · ~26.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~27.2 mi
- GroceriesCantwell Trading Post · ~26.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger26.9 mi straight-line W — Jack River Properties Alaska, Cantwell, AK · FLO · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 4 within 50 · 9 within 100 · 15 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)27.0 mi — Cantwell, AK - Tesla Supercharger, Cantwell
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)26.9 mi — Jack River Properties Alaska, Cantwell, AK · FLO · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 221223 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBrushkana Creek Campground Vault Toilet #2, Middle Of Campground · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletBrushkana Creek Campground Vault Toilet #1 At Rv Parking Area · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletBrushkana Creek Campground Vault Toilet #3 At End Of Campground · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletOld Denali Settlement Post Office Pit Outhouse · ~19.9 mi SE · BLM
Coming out here — Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5) · 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.
- About the name: this site is called Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5), but no named stream, river or lake is mapped near the pin — none within 1 mi in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset and none named within 1.6 mi in our OpenStreetMap pull. Either the creek is not on those maps or it is further off than the name suggests.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 6.8% — gentle. 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 Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5)
Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5) is in the Glennallen Field Office, Anchorage 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 — Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5)
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/brushkana-creek-campground (read 2026-08-17). THIS IS A FEE SITE -- FEE: $20 per night for overnight use; all sites first come, first served. Opening and closing dates are weather-dependent -- generally Memorial Day through the fall. 22 units with fire rings and picnic tables, three double vaulted accessible toilets, bear-proof trash receptacles and food lockers, trailer parking, potable water, trails, a picnic shelter and interpretive panels. BLM says winter physically closes the campground road, which is then reachable only on foot, by dog sled or by snowmachine. Brushkana Creek and Tangle Lakes are the ONLY developed public campgrounds on the 135-mile Denali Highway. Nearest town/services per the page: Cantwell (west end of the Denali Highway) / Paxson (east end). | 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.
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 Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5)
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
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Brushkana Creek Campground (Denali Highway MP 104.5)
Finding water out here →Cold-weather camping →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →