U.S. Forest Service · Tongass National Forest · AK
Sawmill Creek Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
160 ftElevation
187 ftWater · an unnamed streamOcean · 1.0 mi · to the Gulf of Alaska
In townSitka, AK
0%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 243rd darkest of 280 in AK
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
Primitive campground with 4 overnight sites and 1 day use covered picnic shelter
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Phone before you drive
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
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
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
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Salmon Lake Cabin SitkaTongass National Forest · 7.3 mi
Starrigavan Creek CabinTongass National Forest · 7.5 mi
Starrigavan Campground and Day UseTongass National Forest · 7.7 mi
Samsing Cove CabinTongass National Forest · 7.8 mi
Baranof Lake Cabin12 mi
Kanga Bay CabinTongass National Forest · 14 mi
Salmon Lake Cabin SitkaTongass National Forest · 7.3 miStarrigavan Creek CabinTongass National Forest · 7.5 miStarrigavan Campground and Day UseTongass National Forest · 7.7 miSamsing Cove CabinTongass National Forest · 7.8 miBaranof Lake Cabin12 miKanga Bay CabinTongass National Forest · 14 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight42°Rain Showers100% rain
Saturday47°Rain Showers100% rain
Saturday Night39°Rain Showers100% rain
Sunday45°Rain Showers95% rain
NWS forecast for Sitka, AK
Source: National Weather Service, AJK forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 49°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
70°32°20°
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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: SITKA 1 NE, AK (USW00025379), 4 miles away and 82 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
critical
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 16, 2026
Who answers for this land
Sawmill 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest 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.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest 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.