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Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot)
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AK · 67.31679, -150.15905
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Can I go now? — Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot) · 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 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,115 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot)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 Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot) · 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
- FFuel4 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- LLaundry45 mi
- ShShower45 mi
- +Urgent care45 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 4 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 — Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
1,115 ft
Ground slope
0.5% · flat
State
AK
Coordinates
67.31679, -150.15905
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot) · Bureau of Land Management · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townWiseman · ~11.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelColdfoot Camp · ~4.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Groceriesnone within 30 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.
EV charging — from Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot) · 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 Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMarion Creek Campground Vault Toilet #1--Sw Cg Near Entrance · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletMarion Creek Campground Vault Toilet #4--Nw Campground Area · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletMarion Creek Campground Vault Toilet #2--Se Campground Area · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletMarion Creek Campground Vault Toilet #3--Ne Campground Area · at this camp · BLM
Coming out here — Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot) · 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 Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot), 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 0.5% — flat. 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.
Open Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot) elsewhere
The unit that manages Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot)
Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot) 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 — Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot)
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/marion-creek-campground (read 2026-08-17). THIS IS A FEE SITE -- FEE: $12 per night. First come, first served only; pay on site by QR code in the Recreation.gov mobile app (download before you go). Open mid-May through end of September, depending on snowfall. 27 sites, three of them accessible, five miles north of Coldfoot on the south side of the Brooks Range in the Middle Fork Koyukuk valley. Access to an undeveloped trail up to Marion Creek falls. Nearest town/services per the page: Coldfoot, five miles south. | 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 Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot)
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 — Marion Creek Campground (Dalton Highway, near Coldfoot)
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Cold-weather camping →Camping with a dog →All field notes →