Big Delta State Historic Park

This review is focuses mainly on the campground area that costs $20 per night. We stayed one night at Big Delta State Historical Park, located about 8 miles northwest of Delta Junction on the Richardson Highway heading toward Fairbanks. The turnoff is well signed, and the campground operates on a self-pay system with a kiosk located in the outer parking area. Our travel partners arrived about an hour before us and talked to the historical park's caretakers/camp host to get the scoop on how the campground works. They gave us a call with the details and when we arrived we pulled in next to them in the area marked "Pull Through Sites" by a sign. The camping area is essentially a large gravel parking lot with minimal site definition. Other than the Pull Through Site sign there's no map or marked boundaries. RV Life lists 25 sites while the official website says 23 any size rig can fit and you can pull through or back-in where convenient. For review purposes, we're calling our travel companion's site #1 and ours #2. We were the only rigs in the campground area overnight. A Class C parked in the outer lot near a picnic table that was clearly marked "No Overnight RV Parking," but a park ranger drove through and didn't ask them to moveso enforcement seems relaxed. There's a second parking lot down by the river that is technically private property (as reported by the camp hosts) that is owned by a local commune living on an island in the river. There were no "No Parking" signs, and it was actively used by both park visitors and the commune residents, who used it to catch their small boats to and from the island. The historical site is open from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Around 56 PM, traffic picked up along with dust as the island residents came back from work and passed through the camping area on their way to the river. It quieted down by evening. There's a dump station available down the road leading to the back of the park, along with a potable water spigot. The adjacent historic park and Rika’s Roadhouse exhibits are worth exploring and close by on foot. In addition, a portion of the Alaska pipeline runs behind the campground area. You can get a great photo of the pipeline going across the Tanana River by going down to the boat ramp.This camping area was good for an overnighter.

Very cool place to learn about some history of Delta Junction and its settlers. We went here and took my wife's maternity photos and it was great!

It's a pity that this place has become so run down. The "garden" is still accessible (for $5), but everything else is locked!

It costs 5 dollars a person, and yet it is not opened at all. And I tried on 2 different occasions. It's totally not worth it at all.

Nice to see the buildings open. Interesting historical displays of the roadhouse, barn, and other outbuildings.