Log Jam Bay Cabin

Log Jam Cabin offers a remote lodging experience on Montague Island in southeastern Alaska, on the northeast side of Stump Lake. Fishing, hunting, kayaking, beachcombing and wildlife viewing are within walking distance, year-round. Access is by float plane or wheeled plane only, typically 45 minutes from either Cordova or Seward; those arriving by wheeled plane should be prepared to hike three-quarters of a mile to the cabin. Visitors are responsible for their own travel arrangements and safety. Montague Island is a prime fishing location. Cutthroat trout and Dolly Varden are the most abundant fish near the cabin, and can be caught off of the rocky points or near the pond lily beds around the lake with fly fishing or spinning gear. Pink, coho and sockeye salmon come into the lake, but the populations are relatively small — the best spot for coho and pink salmon fishing is in the ocean or at the mouth of the creek at high tide. Hunters have a long season in the surrounding national forest: bear in spring and fall, deer from late summer through late fall. The cabin is just under a mile walk from the Gulf of Alaska and the open ocean, and the sandy beach is a good place for beachcombers to search for glass Japanese fishing floats and other sea-borne treasures. Guests are welcome to use the facility's rowboat, though life vests are not provided. The cabin is a 12-by-14 foot rustic structure with wooden bunks that sleep up to six guests, a table, benches, wood and oil stove for heat, saw, axe, splitting maul, a rainwater catchment barrel and an outdoor pit toilet. There is no running water, electricity, cut firewood or heating oil — bring drinking water, firewood and #1 stove oil, along with food, sleeping bags and pads, a cook stove, matches, cooking gear, lanterns or flashlights, toilet paper, a first aid kit and garbage bags. All trash and food must be packed out, and visitors are expected to clean the cabin before leaving. Montague Island is in the Gulf of Alaska at the entrance to Prince William Sound. The cabin is situated on 80-acre Stump Lake near low hills rising from a thick spruce and hemlock forest, with an understory of muskeg, shrubs and grasses blanketing the area. Wildlife is abundant, including migratory waterfowl, Sitka black-tailed deer and brown bear.