Best RV Parks to stay in Alaska

Here is a site we used to find some parks. They correspond very well to the information I've found on this forum. http://www.rvparkreviews.com/regions/Alaska/

Here is a list of site from our web page. Over the years we have stayed at many/most of them, especially the private commercial ones. In a normal cool summer when we don't need plugins, we stay in more remote governmental campgrounds, and during a hot smoky summer we will more often be at a commercial campground plugged into electricy to run our AC.

http://www.pajbcooper.com/campgrounds.htm

As with everything else, campgrounds change, some open and other close. A couple of these may have closed since our last trip in 2011. The Homestead CG in Palmer in now closed permanently and was our favorite in the area. In some places it isn't a matter of which is best, but which is acceptable. Some locations, the parking lot at Fred meyer is the choice of many. I don't care for pavement camping but as they say, at times, "any port in a storm will do."

Not sure if Grizzly Bear CG up by Cantwell, near the entrance to Denali Park is open or not as it was reported closed sometime back.

We often split our stays between the private and government run campgrounds. Cooler summers we stay more in the more rustic campgrounds without utilities and hot smoky summers we are plugged in more at private campgrounds.

On this list of private campgrounds in Alaska, I have a few photos of some of the campgrounds, a few I have never stayed at or seen, but listed them if they were thought to exist at the time I was doing this page.
http://www.pajbcooper.com/Campgrounds%20by%20Location.htm

Thanks Joe b. I will check your list out. Appreciate your suggestions and advice.

Beachcomber on the coast in Ninilchik was a favorite. It is especially great if you want to go clamming - you can walk to the beach. The owner keeps clam guns and buckets for use by the guests. Great fun. Enormous clams!

Another favorite was Bayside RV park in Valdez. The main attraction of this park is that the owner is one of the very few people in ALaska that are allowed to feed the eagles. Every day at 5pm she brings out buckets of fish to the hordes of waiting eagles. It is something to see. The town is mostly walkable from there. We used the car a few times to get to certain museums.

Iditarod Park in Seward is practically next door to the Sea Life Center. It is $15 a night and the sites face the ocean.

Tolsona Wilderness Campground in Glenallen is rustic, woodsy, and a true "camping" experience. A rushing stream winds through the campground. Lovely.

Hope this helps.

Scenic view RV park in Ninilchik. The place lives up to it's name. Incredible views. It appears they are now ADULT ONLY. They are up on a bluff and I guess they were worried if some kid wandered to close to the edge of the cliff.

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I have no financial interest in giving this opinion.

primetimerver wrote:
We will be leaving for a three month trip to Alaska from NC in early July. Once in Alaska, we will be traveling the usual routes and areas (Fairbanks, Denali, Mat-Su Valley, Kenai Peninsula, Valdez and PW Sound, etc.). Any recommendations on the best RV parks to stay at?

I assume you have the "milepost" magazine - if not get one. All Rv parks (private and gov.) are listed there.

Im from the UK and travelling to Alaska in August for 2 weeks travelling in an RV - very excited.

We are driving from anchorage up to Faribanks and then onto Tangle Lakes, Glenallen, Valdez and back to Anchorage,

If there are any specific places to pull up, eat, sightsee etc PLEASE let me know! Really don't want to miss a thing.

My partner wants to see huskies - anyone know of anywhere offering tours in August?
Or Kayaking the Glaciers company that is good??

THANKS!

You definitely need to purchase Mike and Terri Church's book, "Alaskan Camping" - Google it. It gives very accurate descriptions of all types of camping - public, private and boondocking spots - and not just in Alaska. It includes the Yukon and Canada, also. They are from Alaska and travel back & forth all the time. It's the most accurate reference out there.

The Milepost is a great resource to have for the history and siteseeing for your trip but don't rely on it for campgrounds. It does NOT have all of them available and the information is not accurate. The ads in the book for campgrounds are paid ads.

Have fun!

We prefer the rustic government & park campgrounds.

One of the most scenic was Blueberry Lake State Recreation Site, about 25 miles outside of Valdez.




Byers Lake Campground in Denali State Park was also very nice with many good hiking trails. Also an easy hike up to the Veterans Memorial rest area/viewpoint to see Mt McKinley from the Parks Highway.




Williwaw Forest Service campground, on the way to Whittier, was also very nice. Again, good trails. Lots of glaciers to see all around.




Trail River USFS campground on Kenai Lake was also very scenic!

Thanks everyone for your input. Yes, I do have the Church's Alaskan Camping Guide, the Mile Post, and lots of other maps/guides, but I was wanting to hear from folks who have actually camped at sites in AK, Yukon, BC, and AB to get first hand recommendations on specific campgrounds. You all have given us several to consider and some we had actually checked out on line already. Thanks again for all of your suggestions. I really like the more primitive cgs like ones you suggested and will try and stay at some of those. They tend to be more scenic and definitely less costly. We don't have a generator so not sure if that will limit us with primitive camping. I guess as long as we don't need the AC we should be fine. We'll be leaving on July 8 so are pretty excited. Plan on spending about 3 weeks in SE AK, then the rest of our time will be in YK, AK interior (and Kenai Pen), BC and AB, before heading back home in mid to late September.