Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Cabins

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge guarantees breathtaking scenery and an unforgettable experience for visitors staying in one of the 14 rustic cabins located on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. Getting to the cabin can be a thrilling adventure in itself, as most of them require the use of boats, aircraft, hiking or skiing. Seven of the 14 reservable public use cabins are historic log cabins built around the turn of the 20th century; the others are 16'x18' trapper-style log cabins. Each includes a table with benches, plywood bunks without mattresses, a wood-heating stove, and an outhouse. Access varies: some can be reached by hiking in, while others require a boat or plane, and in winter a snowmachine may be necessary. Eager anglers can pursue chinook, sockeye, coho and pink salmon, as well as Dolly Varden char, rainbow trout and arctic grayling. The refuge is also home to brown and black bears, caribou, Dall sheep, mountain goats, wolves, lynx, wolverines, eagles and thousands of shorebirds and waterfowl, not to mention the mighty Alaska-Yukon moose that the refuge was originally established, as the Kenai National Moose Range, to protect. The grudging withdrawal of the Harding Ice Field has helped to make these lands a "miniature Alaska": the refuge includes examples of every major Alaska habitat type, and is an Alaska in miniature in its diversity of wildlife as well. It spans 1.9 million acres along the western Kenai Peninsula, taking in the western slopes of the Kenai Mountains, forested lowlands along Cook Inlet, rivers, lakes and wetlands. To the east is Chugach National Forest, and to the southeast Kenai Fjords National Park.