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Campbell Creek

Type
Freestone river, Alaska (West)
Designation
Steelhead / salmon water
USGS gauges
1 live
Guides
5 nearby
Shops
1 nearby

Today on the Campbell Creek

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Regulations & access Guides & shops

Campbell Creek is a freestone river in Alaska, listed as Steelhead / salmon water by Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish.

More about the Campbell Creek

1 USGS gauge on the water reports flow; Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish lists 3 species, including arctic char/dolly varden, coho salmon and rainbow/steelhead trout. 5 guides and 1 shop nearby are listed here; the nearest destination hub is Anchorage & Eagle River.

Updated · Sources: ADF&G Southcentral sport fishing regulations, Anchorage Bowl: water-specific salmon season or bag limit, ADF&G Southcentral sport fishing regulations, Anchorage Bowl: water-specific salmon season or bag limit, USGS Water Data

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Where it is

Campbell Creek is a freestone river in Alaska. Our destination hub Anchorage & Eagle River is 4 mi away in a straight line and lists it among its waters. Alaska has 2 waters named Campbell Creek in the USGS Geographic Names Information System; this page is the stream whose mouth is in the Municipality of Anchorage, the one the agency list names.

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Where to fish

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Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

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Alaska fishing and hunting access

Campbell Creek on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Campbell Creek: gauges, shops and guides

RestroomsAccess map

Map of Campbell Creek with 1 USGS gauge, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

Restrooms near Campbell Creek

Restrooms near Campbell Creek

Restrooms within 2 miles of Campbell Creek in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

Map of 3 restrooms near Campbell Creek

Skip the map; every place is in the list below

Map of 3 restrooms near Campbell Creek, numbered as in the list, with the water’s point marked.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

  1. Restroom

    1.2 mi away in a straight line
    • Portable toilet (mapped)

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    Directions
    We don't know yet: is it clean? · free? · open to everyone? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  2. Restroom

    1.5 mi away in a straight line
    • Portable toilet (mapped)
    • Public (mapped)
    • Free (mapped)
    • Not wheelchair accessible (mapped)

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    Directions
    We don't know yet: is it clean? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  3. Restroom

    1.8 mi away in a straight line
    • Flush toilet (mapped)

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    Directions
    We don't know yet: is it clean? · free? · open to everyone? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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  • The shallow Russian River braiding over a wide gravel bar below a green mountainSteelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Bird Creek
    Photo credit

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Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Official designation: Steelhead / salmon water

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under trout, salmon & steelhead.

The water on the map

About this

Measured from the NHDPlus High Resolution (flowlines and waterbodies) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.

Whole Campbell Creek, not only this reach.

Length
10.6 mi (8.9 in AK)
Drains
73.5 sq mi
Drop
150 ft · 14.1 ft/mi
Watershed
Anchorage

Public land along it

About this

Areas the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), public access (U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project, read 2026-11-05) lists as owned or held in easement and open to the public, crossed by the mapped channel of the whole Campbell Creek. Boundaries are mapped, not surveyed. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

5.7 of 8.9 mi on public land

  • Campbell Creek GreenbeltCounty Land · 4.3 mi
  • Emerald Hills ParkCity Land · 0.9 mi
  • Campbell Creek Estuary Natural AreaJoint · 0.4 mi
  • Taku Lake ParkCounty Land · 0.1 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Campbell Creek

About this

Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

All Alaska guides

1 shop nearby

All Alaska shops

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. After them, fly-focused guides within 40 miles whose website does not name it. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

About this

The species the agency lists here; presence varies by reach and season.

Listed by the state agency

  • Illustration of a rainbow trout in side view: olive back with small black spots and a pink band along the side

    Rainbow trout

    Species guide

    Photo credit

    Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), illustration by Duane Raver for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Photo: Duane Raver, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

  • A smiling woman stands on a gravel river bar holding up a silvery Arctic char, with tundra hills behind her

    Arctic char

    Species guide

    Photo credit

    An angler's first Arctic char on a fly, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge wilderness, Alaska (photographer Jeffrey Brooks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Alaska), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Close-up of a male Dolly Varden's head held in a hand: a hooked lower jaw with orange tips and a dark blue-green head

    Dolly Varden

    Species guide

    Photo credit

    A pre-spawning male Dolly Varden from the Canning River, Alaska (Randy Brown, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Alaska), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Two anglers in rain gear standing in a boat on a grey river, one holding a long rod

    Steelhead

    Species guide

    Photo credit

    Winter steelhead fishing on the Skagit River, Washington (Doug Wilson, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). Photo: Doug Wilson, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Illustration of a silver coho salmon with a blue-green back and small dark spots on the back and upper tail

    Coho salmon

    Species guide

    Photo credit

    Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), illustration by Timothy Knepp for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Photo: Timothy Knepp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Anchorage & Eagle River

About this

Anchorage sits at the head of Cook Inlet between Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm, below the Chugach Mountains; Ship Creek runs through downtown, Campbell Creek crosses the city to the south, and the Eagle River comes down from Chugach State Park to Knik Arm north of town.

Destination hub · 4 mi away in a straight line

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Fish these abroad

About this

Matched on the fish the agencies list for both waters first, then the same water type, an official designation or flagship listing on both, and a similar mapped size where USGS hydrography covers both.

At most two waters per country. A shared fish is a listing, not a promise: presence varies by reach and season.

Like the Campbell Creek? Same fish, overseas.

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Same fish: rainbow trout · also a freestone river

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    Photo credit

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    Same fish: rainbow trout · also a freestone river

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    Photo credit

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Fish it when it's winter here

Southern seasons open while ours close.

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Río Petrohué

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    Photo credit

    The Río Simpson passing Coyhaique, Aysén. Photo: Manxuc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Lago Llanquihue.

    Lago Llanquihue

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  • Lago Nahuel Huapi's blue water and wooded islands below snow-capped Andes, framed by conifersLake or reservoir
    Photo credit

    Lago Nahuel Huapi from Llao Llao. Photo: David, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Lago Nahuel Huapi

    Río Negro, Argentina

    Season open Oct–May · Patagonian fishing regulation

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Season open all year · Inland Fisheries Service

Gear checklist

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A steelhead and salmon fly-fishing checklist: a switch or spey rod (or 9′6″ single-hand) in 7–8 weight, Skagit lines and sink tips, swing flies, studded boots and cold-weather layers, with estimated prices and where to buy.

An angler wades the Deschutes River and casts, dry canyon slopes behind

Steelhead & salmon

11′–13′6″ two-hand rod, 7–8 weight, Skagit head + sink tips · Steelhead and Pacific salmon

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Videos for this water (5)

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Seams, shelves and soft water, shown on real rivers.

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Watch: nymphing basics

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Indicator rigs, depth and detecting the take.

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Sources for this page

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A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the USGS gauge CAMPBELL C NR SPENARD AK. Water type is our own classification.