Mount Prindle Campground
Chatanika
Today
Getting there
- Phone
- (907) 474-2200
- Season
- June through mid September
- Fee
- $12 per night per site (2026 fee)
- Sites
- 13
- Amenities
- Hand pump wells, outhouse style toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, no firewood provided
- Booking
- First come, first served, pay by the BLM Scan and Pay mobile app or on site fee tube
- Drive from Anchorage
- Full day, 7h10 to Chatanika, the nearest town on our road map
- Drive from Fairbanks
- 36 min to Chatanika, the nearest town on our road map
What it is like
Mount Prindle Campground is a 13-site BLM campground near Chatanika, in the White Mountains National Recreation Area. It sits in a trailhead area with hand pump wells, and hike-in access leads toward alpine terrain. The sites are first-come, first-served and open June through mid September, and a fee applies, paid through the BLM Scan and Pay app or the on site fee tube. The campground has outhouse style toilets, picnic tables and fire rings, but no firewood is provided.
Chatanika, about 31 miles away, is the nearest town for supplies. Cripple Creek Campground, 6.6 miles away, is a BLM campground at Milepost 60 Steese Highway, the closest of the BLM campgrounds in the White Mountains area to Fairbanks. Nome Creek Road to Ophir Creek is closed to the public Monday through Friday from May to September for road work, so plan weekdays around it.
A 13 site BLM campground in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, a trailhead area with hand pump wells and hike in access toward alpine terrain.