Jualpa Mining Camp is located in Last Chance Basin which is part of the Gold Creek District, one of six mining districts in southeast Alaska's Juneau Gold Belt.
The city of Juneau is one mile to the west of the camp, and Silver Bow Basin is to the east. Last Chance Basin lies between Mount Roberts and Mount Juneau. There are many streams, avalanche slide paths, gullies, and colluvial slopes in the area.
Gold Creek flows west through the center of the basin.
Beginning in the 1880s, mining operations stripped the area of vegetation, but after mining ceased in 1944 many plants reestablished themselves and the area is now densely vegetated.