Auk Village Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Auk Village Campground is located 15 miles from downtown Juneau, Alaska, and 1.5 miles from the Alaska State Ferry terminal at Auke Bay. The area offers a variety of outdoor opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
The area offers fishing, wildlife viewing, kayaking, picnicking, motor boating, hiking, berry picking, rafting, sailing, bicycling, and glacier viewing.
Facilities
The campground offers 11 overnight campsites for tent and RV camping. Site sizes vary and range from 14' to 35'. There is one central location that has a vault toilet, garbage cans, display board, and bear boxes. There are five drinking water spigots, a parking area for day use, and a dumpster. A trail starts at the parking lot that leads to the ocean and Pt. Louisa or the Auke Recreation Day Use area.
Natural Features
The campground sits just north of Auke Bay in a western hemlock and Sitka spruce forested area. Views of the Chilkat Range and the ocean are spectacular. Bears frequent the area with abundant marine life a short walk from the campground.
Nearby Attractions
Auke Recreation Area includes a large day use area on the shores of Auke Bay. The area includes shelters, picnic tables, outhouses, drinking water, fire rings and a trail. At the nearby Auke Bay Harbor and marina, commercial operators offer sport fishing, kayak rentals, and whale watching tours. Auke Bay also has a variety of restaurants and a convenience store.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; keep food in vehicles, bear-proof containers. Bear attractants left unattended will be removed.
Campers are encouraged to bring their own firewood.
Gates open to vehicles at all times.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
If vehicle or person maximums per site are exceeded, campers will be asked to move excess vehicles and equipment to an additional site, if available, and pay the additional fee.
Campground reservations may be made the same day as arrival, if a site is available.
Commercial outfitters or guides not allowed.
Institutional outfitters (universities, schools and clubs) may require a special use permit before making reservations; contact front desk at 907-586-8800 for assistance.
Campsite check-in time is 3:00pm. Check-out time is 2:00pm the day of departure.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- 7
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…There is one central location that has a vault toilet, garbage cans, display board, and bear boxes. There…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…board, and bear boxes. There are five drinking water spigots, a parking area for day use, and a…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 270th darkest of 280 in AK
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 001 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 141 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 002 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 104 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 | |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 65 ft | 1.6 mi | $20 |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 004 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 65 ft | 1.6 mi | $20 | |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 81 ft | 1.6 mi | $20 |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 86 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 007 | standard nonelectric | 14 ft | 108 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 | |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 008 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | yes | 86 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 102 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 | |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 010 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | yes | 102 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 |
| STANDARD NONELECTRIC | 011 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | yes | 119 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
John Muir CabinTongass National Forest · 2.4 mi
Peterson Lake CabinTongass National Forest · 4.3 miMendenhall Lake Campground5.0 mi
Sítʼ Yá Hítʼ CabinTongass National Forest · 5.3 mi
Mendenhall CampgroundTongass National Forest · 6.0 miFrom the cruise ship terminal on South Franklin Street in downtown Juneau, head northwest along the waterfront. South Franklin Street becomes Marine Way, then Egan Drive, named for William A. Egan (1914 - 1984), first governor of the State of Alaska. Egan Drive becomes Glacier Highway at Milepost 9.4, then Juneau Veterans Memorial Highway from Milepost 12.1. At about 14 miles, exit west on Old Glacier Highway through Auke Village Recreation Area. Toward the end of the recreation area turn left on Pt. Louisa Road, and the campground entrance is on the left side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Juneau, AK
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 47°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Auk Village Campground is in Alaska’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Nick Begich (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →