Bertha Creek Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Recreation
Bertha Creek campground makes a convenient base for berry picking, hiking, biking and exploring the area. The family can try out gold panning on unvegetated gravels along Bertha Creek.
Facilities
Bertha Creek Campground is a small loop campground with 12 sites suitable for vehicle camping, small RV's and tents. Each campsite has a fire ring and a picnic table. There are also vault toilets, a water spigot, and trash services durring the summer months.
Natural Features
Bertha Creek Campground is located just south of Turnagain Pass on the Seward Highway in the Kenai Mountains. The campground is tucked into an open forest beside the confluence of Bertha and Granite creeks at the base of steep mountains.
Nearby Attractions
Explorers can travel 1.5 miles south on the Seward Highway to the Johnston Pass Trailhead. From this trailhead you can hike or bike either the trail or the paved bike path that stretches roughly seven miles south to the wayside near the intersect of the Hope and Seward Highways. One can also head north on the Seward Highway 3 miles and reach Turnagain Pass. The parking area on the south side of the Highway offers access to the Turnagain Pass Trail to hike or bike and has ample opportunites to see wildlife and wildflowers in bloom. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (907) 783-3242.
What the agency tells you
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by purchasing firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org
For more information on Chugach National Forest, click here
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring and a picnic table. There are also vault toilets, a water spigot, and trash services durring the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…table. There are also vault toilets, a water spigot, and trash services durring the summer months.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Wildlife viewing
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.
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Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites · the site map
All 12 sites
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Bertha Creek | 001 | standard nonelectric | 198 ft |
| Bertha Creek | 002 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 003 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 004 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 005 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 006 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 007 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 008 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 009 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 010 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 011 | standard nonelectric | |
| Bertha Creek | 012 | standard nonelectric |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Granite CreekChugach National Forest · 2.2 mi
Spencer Glacier Whistle Stop Group CampgroundChugach National Forest · 8.1 mi
Spencer Bench CabinChugach National Forest · 9.1 mi
Tenderfoot CreekChugach National Forest · 11 miCoeur d'Alene CampgroundChugach National Forest · 12 miBlack Bear CampgroundChugach National Forest · 13 miBertha Creek Campground can be found at mile post 65.4 of the Seward Highway. The campground is 61.6 miles south of Anchorage and 65.4 miles north of Seward.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Anchorage, AK
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 43°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 16°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bertha Creek 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 →