Overview
About Cantwell RV Park
Why stop
- Guests often praise the clean shared showers and helpful owners.
Heads up
- Gravel sites can feel tight, and many larger rigs need to disconnect.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Denali Highway Tour Guide
Your drive to Cantwell RV Park, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Denali Highway. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
See the Denali Highway audio tourRecorded for this place
Cantwell: Fuel, Food and Charging“Cantwell's highway services are ahead, with fuel and a quick bite at Vitus Cantwell.”
Plays as you drive up to Cantwell RV Park in the Parkwolf Denali Highway Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Cantwell Before the Highways
- One Aspen, Many Trunks
- Denali Viewpoint: When the Mountain Is Out
- When a River Leaves a Lake Behind
- 96 audio storiesacross Denali Highway’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Moose, Caribou, Bald Eagle, and 10 more
- Works offlinemaps, 18 trails, 27 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Cantwell RV Park
A practical base near CantwellCantwell RV Park is a private RV and tent campground at Mile 135, near the western end of the…
Cantwell RV Park is a private RV and tent campground at Mile 135, near the western end of the Denali Highway in Broad Pass. It is about 26 miles south of the Denali National Park entrance. I’d use it as a service stop or overnight base for the highway or the Denali area; the main draw is a place to camp with hookups and shared facilities.
Campsites and servicesEvery RV site is a pull-through with water and electric.
Every RV site is a pull-through with water and electric. Most are about 30–40 feet long, and many rigs need to disconnect to fit. The pads are gravel, and visitors’ experience of site spacing varies, so confirm fit if you have a large rig. Tent sites are available, but they are for tents only; you can park close by, not on the site.
The office has a mini-mart and ice, plus showers, restrooms, laundry and limited Wi-Fi. There is a shared dump station and water fill. Picnic tables and a small number of portable fire pits are available first-come; ground fires aren’t allowed.
Plan around the officeThe campground operates seasonally, so check its current opening dates before setting out.
The campground operates seasonally, so check its current opening dates before setting out. Dumping, water fill and laundry are office-hour services; don’t count on doing those late at night. The mini-mart is the on-site food option listed, with no restaurant or menu advertised, so plan your meals before you arrive.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Denali Highway
56 sightingsMooseMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
37 sightingsCaribouMost seen around 8 PMSighting map
26 sightingsBald EagleMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
33 sightingsTrumpeter SwanMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
25 sightingsBeaverMost seen around 9 PMSighting map
17 sightingsPorcupineMost seen around 10 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Denali Highway. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
