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U.S. Forest Service · Inventoried Roadless Area · Alaska

El Capitan Roadless Area

1 federal campground, all of them reservable or unlisted.

1Campgrounds
1Sites
160 ftElevation
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point queries at 1 of these 1 campgrounds

Where they are

1 of 1 mapped
Drawing the map
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Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Sep 8, 2026

The campgrounds · 1

1 campground
Reservable
Red Bay Lake Cabin
El Capitan Roadless Area · AK
1 site160 ft
Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Sep 8, 2026

This land

measured from the nearest campground in the unit
Roadless
Salmon Bay22,793 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
El Capitan26,693 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Calder9,857 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

Camping here is a stake in what happens to it. More Than Just Parks tracks the threats and the comment windows.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Heads up

Wildfire
Winter Island fire · 33 mi from the nearest campground here · 0 acres
Wildfire
Sandy Beach fire · 36 mi from the nearest campground here · 0 acres
Source: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Sep 7, 2026

Who answers for this land

El Capitan Roadless Area’s campgrounds sit in one congressional district. These members vote on the laws that decide what happens to this land.

Nick Begich (R)AK at-large · 1 campground · grade F
Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score
Unit: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) land units
SRC · RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM · unified by CAMPANAC · refreshed nightly