Sourdough Creek Campground

Sourdough Creek Campground is located at MP 147.5 Richardson Highway.This recreation site provides 45 campsites (including a host site and two walk-in camp sites), picnic tables and fire rings. Other amenities within the facility include six accessible double vaulted toilets, numerous bear-proof trash receptacles and food lockers, parking for vehicles and boat trailers, a paved boat launch, potable water (hauled), accessible trails, picnic areas and kiosk, and interpretive panels dispersed throughout the site. This site is mostly utilized from late May through September, the snow free season
Winter physically closes the campground to motor vehicle traffic, and it is then only reachable by foot, dog sled or snow machine. No fees are collected during this time of year.
In addition to RV and tent recreational camping opportunities, the campground provides access to the Gulkana Wild and Scenic River. Floaters use the boat launch as a put-in and take-out point as well as jet boat users in the river corridor. Activities this site supports include recreational fishing from the bank, subsistence hunting access for caribou and moose, as well as berry picking and trapping. There is a boat launch at the rivers edge and a nice picnic area for day use. Outhouse style bathrooms, information and bulletin boards, hiking trails, and handicapped accessible fishing ramps and trails complete with interpetative panels. Sourdough Creek Campground along with the boat launch can be very busy from approximately Memorial Day through mid July mainly by fishermen and boaters taking part in the King salmon fishing in the Gulkana River. There are a number of fishing guides using the boat launch at Sourdough Creek Campground. Later in the summer, after the salmon fishing subsides, the campground generally gets a lot quieter.

BLM managed sections of the Gulkana Wild and Scenic River can be accessed at Sourdough Creek Campground and Paxson Lake Campground. From Glennallen proceed north on the Richardson Highway. Sourdough Creek campground is located at mile 147.5, Paxson Lake campground is located at mile 175.