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Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument)
Dispersed · U.S. Forest Service · AK · 55.62448, -130.72309
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Can I go now? — Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument) · Tongass National Forest · AK
Open today Year-round per the agency record.
U.S. Forest Service record: “Year Round” 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 Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 303 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument)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 Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument) · Tongass National Forest · AK
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail34 mi
- FFuel40 mi
- +Urgent care41 mi
- GGrocery41 mi
- WWater41 mi
- HHardware42 mi
- RxPharmacy42 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 41-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 40 mi out, no EV fast charger is listed within 150 mi.
Not within 60 mi: Dump, Propane. 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 — Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument)
Access
Dispersed
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
303 ft
Ground slope
11% · noticeable
State
AK
Coordinates
55.62448, -130.72309
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument) · Tongass National Forest · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Resupply lookup unavailable — try the map links below.
EV charging — from Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument) · Tongass National Forest · 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)47.7 mi — ELECTRIC BUS MPL ELEC BUSS, Metlakatla, AK · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument) · Tongass National Forest · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletNooya Lake Shelter · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomPunchbowl Lake Shelter · ~6.8 mi S · USFS
- RestroomPunchbowl Cove Buoy · ~7.0 mi S · USFS
- RestroomWalker Cove Buoy · ~7.7 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument) · Tongass National Forest · 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 11% — 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.
- 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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The unit that manages Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument)
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument) are set by Tongass National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument)
Open season
Year Round
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.fs.usda.gov/r10/tongass/recreation/nooya-lake-shelter-site (read 2026-08-17). Fee field reads: "Free". Season: "Year Round". A three-sided shelter on the edge of Nooya Lake INSIDE THE MISTY FJORDS NATIONAL MONUMENT WILDERNESS. Reached only by boat or float plane, in the north arm of Rudyerd Bay off the east shore of Behm Canal. Two pit toilets. HONEST WARNING FROM THE AGENCY'S OWN PAGE: the shelter sits in the flight-seeing path of float planes, so expect heavy daytime aircraft traffic from May through August. No stay limit stated. Restrooms: Two pit toilets. Water: the page states plainly that potable water is not available at this site. Nearest town/access per the page: Ketchikan -- access by boat or float plane only, via Rudyerd Bay off Behm Canal. | 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 Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument)
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 — Nooya Lake Shelter (Misty Fjords National Monument)
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