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West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49)
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AK · 63.88765, -142.23949
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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 West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,875 ft.
Fire & smoke — around West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49)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 West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49) · 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
- DDump16 mi
- WWater16 mi
- FFuel16 mi
- GGrocery44 mi
- MMechanic44 mi
- LLaundry44 mi
- OOutfitter44 mi
- +Urgent care44 mi
- @Mail45 mi
- ShShower45 mi
- EVEV fast charger106 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 16 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 106-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: 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 ↗
The site — West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
1,875 ft
Ground slope
2.1% · flat
State
AK
Coordinates
63.88765, -142.23949
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49) · Bureau of Land Management · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChicken Pump Station · ~15.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~15.5 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.
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger106.4 mi straight-line W — ReCharge Alaska - Delta Junction (at a parking lot) · Non-Networked · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-11 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · none within 100 · 1 within 150
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)none listed within 150 mi
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.55 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 326095 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49) · Bureau of Land Management · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletWest Fork Campground Vault Toilet #1(Cxt) Lower Area · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWest Fork Campground Vault Toilet #2--West Of Water Tank · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWest Fork Campground Vault Toilet #3--Second In Upper Loop · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWest Fork Campground Vault Toilet #4(Cxt)--Third In Upper Loop · at this camp · BLM
Coming out here — West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49) · 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 West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49), 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 fork is not on those maps or it is further off than the name suggests.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 2.1% — 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.
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The unit that manages West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49)
West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49) is in the Eastern Interior 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 — West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49)
Stay limit
10 nights (STAY LIMIT: 10 days)
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/west-fork-campground (read 2026-08-17). THIS IS A FEE SITE -- FEE: $12 per night, paid at an iron ranger box or by Scan & Pay in the Recreation.gov app -- NO cell reception at the site, so download the app first. STAY LIMIT: 10 days (stated on the page). Two loops: 7 pull-through and 18 back-in sites, four accessible vault toilets, picnic tables and fire rings throughout, one fully accessible site with an elevated tent pad. Camp host on site typically until mid-to-late August. BLM notes the campground is usually FULL in mid-September. River access a quarter mile north is the southernmost put-in on the 400-mile Fortymile National Wild and Scenic River System, but the reach is usually too shallow to paddle except at high water. Nearest town/services per the page: Tok, via the Taylor Highway. | 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 West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49)
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 — West Fork Campground (Taylor Highway MP 49)
Water on public land →Cold-weather camping →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading the aerial →All field notes →