National Park Service · Denali National Park · AK

Savage River

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Information
Road Open To: Mile 13 (Mountain Vista) The Denali Park Road is open to Mile 13, Mountain Vista. Be prepared for winter driving conditions to reach Mile 13.
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 16, 2026
ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 16. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$38.75From, per site
Sites
32All of them booked ahead
2,710 ftElevation
559 ftWater · an unnamed stream
78.3 miSW of Chena Ridge, AK
Bortle 2Night sky · 168th darkest of 280 in AK

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Open in summer only (May 20 to mid-September). Savage River campground is located at Mile 13 on the Denali Park Road. It sits in a spruce forest, with moderate screening between sites. On clear days, Mount McKinley can be seen from a short walk below the campground.

Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets - seasonal · Vault Toilets - year round
Drinking water
Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Around the campground

On the water
River

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$38.75Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$77.50DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itNational Park Servicethe agency’s record
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 7

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
A night, from$38.75
Large RV Sites$49.25
Small RV / Tent Sites$38.75
Group Site$49
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$38.75
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$77.50

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($38.75), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today38°Chance Light Snow41% rain
Tonight27°Light Snow Likely71% rain
Saturday31°Light Snow Likely63% rain
Saturday Night17°Slight Chance Light Snow19% rain

NWS forecast for Healy, AK

Typical weather

Typical October night 16°F, day 34°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night -6°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

80°32°-10°

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.

Measured at: MCKINLEY PARK, AK (USC00505778), 9 miles away and 640 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Nick Begich, official portrait

Savage River 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: National Park Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Cell signal: the Park Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Healy, AK, 5.9 mi SSW (a census designated place). Straight line.