Kayak camping, tides & launches: Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords & Kachemak Bay

Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords & Kachemak Bay: Coastal paddling with 98 campsites, 75 boat launches and 101 tide stations, plus slack-water times for 102 tidal current stations. See them on the map, check today's tides and wind, or, with a Coast Map Pass, download the whole region (34 MB) to your phone for trips without signal.

Campsites

From OpenStreetMap, coloured on the map by what you need before staying. 3 mention boat, canoe or kayak access (🛶). Always confirm fees, permits and closures with the operator.

Fee or reservation (24)

• Allison Point
• Allison Point
• Allison Point
• Allison Point Campground
• Anchorage Ship Creek RV Park
• Bird Creek Campground
• Blueberry Lake State Recreation Site
• Centennial Park Campground
• Eagle River Campground
• Engineer Lake Cabin
• Forest Acres Campground
• Girdwood Campground
• Grace Ridge North Campsite
• Hidden Lake Campground
• Karen Hornaday Campground
• Kayak Beach Yurt 🛶
• Lower Skilak Campground
• Porcupine Campground
• Rapids Campsite
• Seaside Farms Accomidations
• Swanson River Campground
• Tent Area Campground
• Upper Skilak Campground
• Williwaw Campground

Permit, protocol or private (2)

• Higher Ground Baptist Bible Camp
• Miller's Landing North Annex

Free or backcountry (26)

• Backcountry Campsite
• Backcountry Campsites
• Backcountry Campsites
• Carl's Camp
• Clear Creek Backcountry Campsites
• Coure d'Alene Campground
• Echo Bend Established Campsites
• Eklutna Alex Campground
• Emerald Lake Campsite
• Engineer Lake
• Freestone Ponds Campsite
• Grewingk Trailhead Campsite
• Heritage Falls Campsite North
• Heritage Falls Campsite South
• Icicle Creek Backcountry Campsite
• Kanchee Campground
• Kelly Lake Campground
• Lower Ohmer Campground
• Petersen Lake Campground
• Quarry Beach Yurt 🛶
• Raven Gorge Backcountry Campsites
• Shotgun Cove Campsites
• Tangle Pond Informal Campsite
• Thunder Creek Campsites
• Twin Falls North Campsite
• Twin Falls South Campsite

Fees not recorded (check locally) (21)

• Across the Bay
• Birchwood Camp
• Black Spruce Campground
• Cabin Lake Campground
• Camp McGhan
• Centennial Campground
• China Poot Lake Campsite
• Dolly Varden Lake Campground
• Exit Glacier Campground
• Fish Lake Campground
• Halibut Cove Tent Platforms
• Humpy Creek Campsite
• JBER FamCamp
• Jean Lake Campground
• Jean Lake Campground
• Lowell Point Campground
• Mariner Park
• North Beach Campsites 🛶
• Rainbow Lake Campground
• Seward 708
• Tustamena Lake Campground

Tide stations

Highs and lows for the next year, the 24-hour tide curve, wind and the marine forecast.

• 5 miles NE of Point Brazil, Montague Island
• Agnes Cove, Aialik Peninsula
• Aialik Bay, North end
• Aialik Sill, Aialik Bay
• Anchor Point
• ANCHORAGE, Knik Arm
• Applegate Island
• Bainbridge Point, Bainbridge Island
• Bay of Isles, South Arm
• Bear Cove, Aialik Peninsula
• Bear Cove, Kachemak Bay
• Beauty Bay, Nuka Bay
• Blackstone Bay
• Blue Fjord, Port Nellie Juan
• Busby Island
• Cape Hinchinbrook
• Cape Kasilof
• Cape Ninilchik
• Chance Cove (Lagoon)
• Chenega Island, Dangerous Passage
• Chenega Island, southwest end
• Chinulna Point, Cook Inlet
• Cochrane Bay
• College Fiord
• Columbia Glacier
• Comfort Cove, Port Gravina
• CORDOVA
• Crater Bay, Harris Bay
• Culross Bay, Wells Passage
• Day Harbor
• Drift River Terminal
• East Foreland
• Eshamy Bay, Knight Island Passage
• Eshamy Lagoon
• Eyak River entrance
• Fire Island
• Gibbon Anchorage, Green Island
• Goose Creek, Knik Arm, Cook Inlet
• Gravel Point
• Gravina River
• Guguak
• Halibut Cove, Kachemak Bay
• Hanning Bay
• Herring Point
• Hogg Bay, Port Bainbridge
• Homer, Coal Point, Kachemak Bay
• Jack Bay
• Jackson Cove, Glacier Island
• Johnstone Point
• Kalgin Island (north end), Cook Inlet
• Kasitsna Bay, Kachemak Bay
• Kenai City Pier
• Kenai River entrance
• Kings Bay (inside)
• Kings Bay, Port Nellie Juan
• Landlocked Bay, Port Fidalgo
• Latouche, Latouche Island
• Long Bay Entrance, Culross Passage
• Louis Bay
• Macleod Harbor
• McCarty Fiord, Moonlight Bay
• Middleton Island (north end)
• Naked Island, McPherson Passage
• NIKISKI
• Ninilchik
• North Foreland
• Nuka Passage
• Orca
• Patton Bay
• Perch Point
• Perry Island (South Bay)
• Pete Dahl Slough
• Picnic Harbor, Rocky Bay
• Point Elrington, Elrington Island
• Point Helen
• Point Possession
• Port Audrey
• Port Chalmers
• Port Chatham
• Port Etches
• Port Graham
• Port MacKenzie
• Rocky Point
• Sadie Cove, Kachemak Bay
• Sawmill Bay, Evans Island
• Seal Island
• SELDOVIA, Kachemak Bay
• Seward, Resurrection Bay
• Shag Rock
• Sheep Bay
• Smith Island
• Snug Corner Cove, Port Fidalgo
• Snug Harbor, Knight Island
• Takoma Cove, Port Dick
• Tutka Bay,Kachemak Bay
• Two Arm Bay, Harris Bay
• Upper Northwestern Fiord, Harris Bay
• VALDEZ, Port Valdez
• Whittier, Passage Canal
• Windy Bay, Hawkins Island
• Wooded Islands

Tidal currents and slack water

• Anchor Point, 5 miles northwest of
• Anchor Point, 8nm west of
• Anchor Point, west of
• Anchorage Shipdock, northwest of
• Anchorage, 0.2 mile offshore
• Anchorage, west of
• Bainbridge Pass
• Bainbridge Passage (mid-passage)
• Barabara Point
• Bear Cape
• Bear Cape and Zaikof Point, between
• Beluga Shoal, south of
• Between Naked and Eleanor Islands
• Cairn Point, northwest of (east side)
• Cairn Point, northwest of (west side)
• Cape Elizabeth
• Cape Hinchinbrook Approach
• Cape Hinchinbrook, SW of, Hinchinbrook I
• Cape Kasilof, 3 miles west of
• Cape Ninilchik, west of
• Cape Starichkof, northwest of
• Channel Island
• Chugach Passage
• Chugach Passage, east of
• College Fiord
• Crafton Island - Knight Island Pass
• Drift River Terminal
• East Foreland
• East Foreland, 1.5 nmi. west of
• Elrington Passage
• Finski Point
• Fire Island Shoal, northwest of
• Fire Island, 0.8nm north of
• Fire Island, 1.0nm east of
• Fire Island, 1.0nm north of
• Fire Island, 1.2nm south of
• Fire Island, west of
• Glacier Spit
• Green Island Pass
• Harriot Point, west of
• Homer Spit
• Johnston Point, 7 nmi. northwest of
• Johnstone Point
• Kachemak Bay Entrance
• Kalgin Island, 4nm east of
• Kalgin Island, east of
• Kalgin Island, southeast of
• Kenai City Wharf
• Kenai River, north of
• Kenai, 6 miles southwest of
• Kennedy Entrance
• Knik Arm Mud Flats, south of
• Knik Arm, east side
• Knik Arm, NW of Anchorage
• Latouche Pass
• Middle Ground Shoal, east of
• Middle Ground Shoal, north of
• Middle Ground Shoal, southeast of
• Montague Point
• Montague Strait
• Montague Strait, NW of Pt. Woodcock
• Moose Point, NNW of
• Moose Point, northwest of
• Mud Bay
• Nikiski, 0.8 mile west of
• Ninilchik Harbor, northwest of
• North Foreland, southeast of
• North Forelands, 2.5nm northeast of
• Old Log Boom
• Outpost Island
• Perry Passage
• Point Culross
• Point Pogishi, southwest of
• Point Possession, northeast of
• Point Possession, northwest of
• Point Possession, WNW of
• Point Woronzof, 1.2nm NE of
• Point Woronzof, southwest of
• Point Woronzof, west of
• Port Chatham
• Port Graham
• Port Gravina
• Port Mackenzie
• Port Mackenzie, south of
• Prince of Wales Pass
• Salmo Point
• Salmo Point, Hawkins I., 1.2 miles SE of
• Sawmill Bay Entr., Evans Island
• Seldovia
• Slipper Point
• Snug Harbor
• Storey Island and Peak Island, between
• Storey Island, north of
• Tesoro Pier
• The Forelands
• Unocal Pier, south of
• Valdez Narrows
• W. of Johnson Bay
• West Amatuli Island, North
• West Foreland, 1 nmi. east of
• West Foreland, south of
• Wooded Island

Boat launches

• City of Kenai Boat Launch
• Eagle Rock Boat Launch
• Fire Lake Public Access
• Jean Lake Boat Launch
• North Fill
• Northeast Launch Ramp
• Primrose Boat Launch
• Sand Lake Public Access
• South Launch Ramp
• The Pillars Boat Launch
• Whittier Boat Ramp

Plus 64 unnamed launches on the map.

Marine forecast areas

Barren Islands East · Cape Cleare to Gore Point out to 15 NM · Cape Suckling to Cape Cleare from 15 to 75 NM · Cape Suckling to Gravel Point out to 15 NM · Central and Eastern Prince William Sound · Cook Inlet Kalgin Island to Point Bede · Cook Inlet North Kalgin Island · Gravel Point to Cape Cleare out to 15 NM · Kachemak Bay · Northwest Prince William Sound · Passage Canal · Port of Valdez · Resurrection Bay · Southwest Prince William Sound · Valdez Arm · Valdez Narrows

Download for GPS and other map apps

98 campsites and 68 boat launches as GPX (GPS units, Gaia GPS, OsmAnd) or KML (Google Earth, Google My Maps).