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Juneau City and Borough
Drive-up · public land · Juneau City and Borough, AK · 58.40923, -134.58094
Dave's been here. A spot from Dave's own travels on public land — a fee site. Conditions still change, so confirm access, stay limits and fire rules before you go.
This is Mendenhall Campground, a fee campground in Juneau, Alaska. As far as vehicle-supported camping opportunities in Juneau, this is pretty much it! Though it's a lovely campground, and relatively inexpensive. Must reserve online. $10 per night. Enough room for one or two vehicles per site. Picnic tables, fire rings, fire wood, bathrooms, FREE HOT SHOWERS, good cell service. On Mendenhall Lake, view of glacier. Strongly recommended!
A night on record
Dave slept here on 19 August 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
The site — Juneau City and Borough
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
64 ft
Ground slope
3.8% · gentle
County
Juneau City and Borough, AK
Coordinates
58.40923, -134.58094
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Juneau City and Borough · public land · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorton Lake (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townJuneau · ~9.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking water~9.5 mi
- FuelPetro One · ~3.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesSuper Bear Supermarket · ~2.6 mi
- PharmacyRons Apothecary · ~2.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicMoontide Healing Arts LLC · ~3.2 mi
- HardwareInfinite Interiors · ~2.0 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
Had a signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
Yes
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Highly recommended
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
Ask about this camp →Weather outlook — at Juneau City and Borough
Loading the latest forecast…
Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 64 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Juneau City and BoroughNIFC · AirNow
No dated fire rule on record for this camp: ask the office that manages this land.
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Juneau City and Borough · public land · AK
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower0 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- HHardware2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- FFuel3 mi
- RxPharmacy3 mi
- LLaundry3 mi
- OOutfitter3 mi
- +Urgent care3 mi
- MMechanic3 mi
- EVEV fast charger4 mi
- WWater10 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Dump, 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 ↗
EV charging — from Juneau City and Borough · public land · AK — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger3.6 mi straight-line S — Fred Meyer Juneau (at a shopping center) · Non-Networked · CHAdeMO, J1772 · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-06-06 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 3 within 100 · 3 within 150
- Nearest listing CCSnone listed within 150 mi
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)none listed within 150 mi
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)2.2 mi — Mendenhall Valley Public Library, Juneau, AK (at a library) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-06-13 · 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 149104 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Juneau City and Borough · public land · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSit Ya Hit · ~0.3 mi N · USFS
- RestroomBack Loop Road Bridge · ~0.4 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMendenhall Lake · ~0.5 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSkater'S Cabin · ~0.5 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Juneau City and Borough · public land · AK
- Surface water mapped nearby: Norton Lake (water). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 3.8% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 m data here), sampled every 10 meters around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few meters 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.
Open Juneau City and Borough elsewhere
Other camps near Juneau City and Borough
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Mendenhall Lake~0.5 mi · fee
- Auk Village~5.8 mi · fee
How we know this — Juneau City and Borough
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Juneau City and Borough, AK). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 19 August 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit. See every camp Dave has stood on.
What we don’t know about Juneau City and Borough
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 — Juneau City and Borough
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Cold-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →