Frosty Bay Cabin

Frosty Bay Cabin offers an ideal base camp for hiking, fishing, crabbing, hunting and exploring. Frosty Bay is 36 miles south of Wrangell, Alaska, and can be accessed by float plane or boat, depending on conditions. The bay offers good anchorages. Anglers can fish for king salmon from May to July, pink salmon in July and August, and silver salmon in August and September. Crab, halibut and shrimp are also available in nearby saltwater. From the cabin, hikers can find a surfaced planked trail that goes 600 feet to an unmaintained 10 miles of road system built in the early 1990s. Hunting is also available in the area during designated seasons. This 14-by-16 cabin (hunter-style) sleeps six and comes equipped with two single bunks, two double bunks, a table and benches, broom, oil stove for heat (No. 1 oil only) and an outhouse toilet. A small loft provides additional storage space, a small deck wraps around two sides of the cabin, and a wooden cooler box is provided for food storage. A mooring buoy is available for cabin guests. Water and electricity are not provided; water is available from an adjacent stream but must be treated, and bringing your own is recommended. Heating oil is not supplied: along with No. 1 stove oil, pack bedding, a cook stove and cookware, lighting and food, then pack out all trash and clean the cabin before leaving. The cabin overlooks Frosty Bay and a portion of Deer Island, just across Seward Passage. The surrounding rainforest is primarily Sitka spruce and western hemlock with some cedar, and the landscape features hills and mountains, with elevations reaching 2,800 feet. Brown and black bears, moose and Sitka black-tailed deer make their home in the area around the cabin, which is known for having a high density of brown bears. Bird species in the area may include swans, geese and bald eagles.