Mount Prindle Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 13All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Mount Prindle Campground- The Mount Prindle Campground is one of two campgrounds located at either end of the Nome Creek Valley, on the southern edge of the White Mountains NRA. The campground’s 13 sites are situated among tall willow shrubs, below expansive alpine tundra meadows and Mount Prindle (5,286 feet), making it the ideal spot to begin a trip into the high country. From here you can enjoy gold panning in Nome Creek or explore the nearby Quartz Creek Trail. Keep reading
Campgrounds are maintained during the summer season (June thru mid-September) and have hand pump non-potable water, trash cans, and outhouse-style toilets. Each campsite has a parking area, picnic tables, and fire rings. Firewood is not provided. The nearest RV dump station is in Fairbanks. Fees- $12 per night per site (sites 1-13) on a first come basis. Directions- To reach Nome Creek from Fairbanks, take the Steese Highway to mile 57 and follow the U.S. Creek Road for seven miles to the Nome Creek Road. Taking a right at the junction, it is 4 miles to the upper end of Nome Creek Valley, the Quartz Creek Trailhead, and the Mount Prindle Campground.
Recreation
The campground’s 13 sites are situated among tall willow shrubs, below expansive alpine tundra meadows and Mount Prindle (5,286 feet), making it the ideal spot to begin a trip into the high country. From here you can enjoy gold panning in Nome Creek or explore the nearby Quartz Creek Trail.
Nearby Attractions
Quartz Creek Trail, Table Top Trail, Nome Creek for fishing, floating, and or goldpanning, put-in for Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 13
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Campgrounds are maintained during the summer season (June thru mid-September) and have hand pump non-potable water, trash cans, and outhouse-style toilets.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Meadow
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Gold Panning
- Hiking
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
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Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $12 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
13 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sites13 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 13 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. 13 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Mount Prindle | 1 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 10 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 11 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 12 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 13 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 2 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 3 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 4 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 5 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 6 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 7 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 8 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
| Mount Prindle | 9 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | $12 |
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
Cripple Creek CampgroundEastern Interior Field Office · 6.5 mi
Ophir Creek CampgroundEastern Interior Field Office · 14 mi
White Mountains National Recreation Area - Alaska CabinsEastern Interior Field Office · 19 miDirections-To reach Nome Creek from Fairbanks, take the Steese Highway to mile 57 and follow the U.S. Creek Road for seven miles to the Nome Creek Road. Taking a right at the junction, it is 4 miles to the upper end of Nome Creek Valley, the Quartz Creek Trailhead, and the Mount Prindle Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pleasant Valley, AK
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 32°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -3°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Mount Prindle 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 →