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Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road)
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AK · 64.91644, -164.96111
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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 Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 455 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road)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 Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road) · 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
- FFuel31 mi
- GGrocery31 mi
- MMechanic32 mi
- @Mail32 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 31 mi out, no EV fast charger is listed within 150 mi.
Not within 60 mi: Water, 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 — Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
455 ft
Ground slope
12.2% · noticeable
State
AK
Coordinates
64.91644, -164.96111
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road) · Bureau of Land Management · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Resupply lookup unavailable — try the map links below.
EV charging — from Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road) · 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
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Tapraq Rock, Stebbins, 125.6 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSalmon Lake Campground Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
Coming out here — Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road) · 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.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 12.2% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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 Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road)
Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road) is in the Anchorage 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 — Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road)
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/salmon-lake-campground (read 2026-08-17). Fees field reads exactly: "No fee". Six campsites with picnic tables and an unimproved boat launch on a nine-acre site. IMPORTANT CURRENT NOTICE on the page: the restroom building is CLOSED and trash receptacles are NOT being serviced -- visitors must plan their own sanitation and pack out all waste. Reached by a one-mile gravel road off the Nome-Kougarok Highway at milepost 38. No stay limit stated. Nearest town/services per the page: Nome, about 40 road 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.
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 Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road)
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 — Salmon Lake Campground (Nome-Kougarok Road)
Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Off-grid communication →All field notes →