Granite Creek
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $19From, per site
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Granite Creek Campground is set in the captivating Kenai Mountains on Turnagain Pass, surrounded by wildflowers and spruce forests. The campground, about 1 hour south of Achorage, AK on the Seward Highway, boasts prime fishing, hiking, packrafting, and wildlife watching. Keep reading
Recreation
Biking is a popular activity at Granite Creek Campground. There is a paved bike path along the Seward Highway that extends for five miles south to the Hope Higway and Johnson Pass North Trailhead just north of the campground offers a 23 mile mountain biking or hiking opportunity. For the packrafters, Granite and Six-Mile Creeks offer world class opportunities. Whatever recreation activity you choose, look for raspberries to pick and wildflowers to smell. Fishing is considered intermediate, and Dolly Varden trout are among the tasty fish you might catch. Look for wildlife like moose, snowshoe hare, black and brown bears, marmots, and mountain goats, or sit back and listen to water rushing through the glacier-fed Granite Creek.
Facilities
Granite Creek Campground is a loop with 19 sites are nicely seperated and most sites are right beside the creek. There are pinic tables and fire rings at each site and vault toilets, a water spigot, and trash services located in the campground durring the summer months. Bears frequent the area, so please make use of the provided bear boxes.
Natural Features
Set in the Chugach National Forest, Granite Creek Campground nestled among the spruce near the confuluence of Granite Creek and Six-Mile Creek. These roaring glacier-fed creeks provide wonder recreational opportunities. From many place in the campground, one can see the towering Kenai mountains and other spectacular sights that await.
Nearby Attractions
A mile east of Granite Creek Campground is the Johnson Pass North Trailhead with a well-maintained 23-mile trail with breathtaking vistas. Parking for Turnagain Pass trail is located 6 miles north of the campground entrance. Also nearby is Six Mile Creek, with Class V whitewater for rafting and kayaking. Consider spending the day in Portage Valley visiting the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Portage Glacier, the town of Whittier, or Byron Glacier. Contact Info For local information, please call (907) 522-8368 or call (907) 228-3178 for general information.
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. Bears frequent the campground.
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 informaiton on the Chugach National Forest, click here.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 53 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and fire rings at each site and vault toilets, a water spigot, and trash services located in the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings at each site and vault toilets, a water spigot, and trash services located in the campground…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Rafting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 258th darkest of 280 in AK
- Bortle 3
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
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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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $19 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 Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 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. 19 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 001 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 134 ft | 439 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 122 ft | 305 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 122 ft | 217 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 128 ft | 150 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 128 ft | 275 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 146 ft | 283 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 146 ft | 222 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 220 ft | 115 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 145 ft | 108 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 174 ft | 140 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 133 ft | 97 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 133 ft | 33 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 154 ft | under 10 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 156 ft | 120 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 158 ft | 171 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 158 ft | 80 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 017 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 189 ft | 187 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 189 ft | 94 ft | $19 |
| AREA GRANITE CREEK | 019 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 225 ft | 326 ft | $19 |
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
Where it is
Spencer Glacier Whistle Stop Group CampgroundChugach National Forest · 8.8 mi
Tenderfoot CreekChugach National Forest · 9.2 mi
Spencer Bench CabinChugach National Forest · 10 miCoeur d'Alene CampgroundChugach National Forest · 12 mi
Caribou Creek CabinChugach National Forest · 14 miGranite Creek Campground is located at mile post 62.6 of the Seward Highway. The campground is 64.4 miles south of Anchorage and 62.6 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
Granite Creek 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 →