Agency-listedBLM Central Yukon Field Office · dispersedFree
Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275)
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AK · 68.45333, -149.48326
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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 Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,779 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275)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 Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275) · 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
- HHardware12 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- ShShower12 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 12 mi out, no EV fast charger is listed within 150 mi.
Not within 60 mi: Water, Dump, Propane, Grocery. Plan those before you head up.
EV fast charger: none listed within 150 straight-line mi (US DOE data). Charge before the turn-off.
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 — Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
2,779 ft
Ground slope
3.7% · gentle
State
AK
Coordinates
68.45333, -149.48326
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275) · Bureau of Land Management · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~12.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Groceriesnone within 30 mi
- HardwareTool Shop · ~12.3 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast chargerNone listed within 150 straight-line miles. Plan the charge before the turn-off.
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)none listed within 150 mi
- 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 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGalbraith Lake Campground Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletFarthest North Spruce Wayside Vault Toilet(Cxt) · ~29.3 mi S · BLM
Coming out here — Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275) · 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 Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275), 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 lake is not on those maps or it is further off than the name suggests.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 3.7% — 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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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If this one is full, gated or washed out.
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The unit that manages Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275)
Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275) 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 — Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275)
Stay limit
None published
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/galbraith-lake-campground (read 2026-08-17). Fees field reads exactly: "No fee". BLM calls this an UNDEVELOPED campground with roughly 12 campsites, bear-proof garbage cans and one vault toilet. Open approximately May-September. Sits about a mile from Galbraith Lake in the Atigun Valley, Gates of the Arctic NP to the west, Arctic NWR to the east. Access is 2.5 miles of unimproved gravel off Galbraith Airport Road. No stay limit stated. Nearest town/services per the page: Deadhorse / Coldfoot are the nearest services; the site is at Dalton Hwy MP 275, then 2.5 mi of unimproved gravel road. | 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 Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275)
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 — Galbraith Lake Campground (Dalton Highway MP 275)
Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Power off-grid →All field notes →