About White Mountains National Recreation Area - Alaska Cabins
Number of accommodations: 13
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2026 Season availability
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This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
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Reviews (123)
What Guests Are Saying
The cabins in the White Mountains National Recreation Area are clean, comfortable, and well-maintained, offering great amenities in a beautiful setting. The trail system is excellent, with recent improvements by the BLM trail crew. While firewood can be scarce and mosquitoes are prevalent, many guests enjoyed their stays and appreciated the overall experience.
What Guests Are Saying
The cabins in the White Mountains National Recreation Area are clean, comfortable, and well-maintained, offering great amenities in a beautiful setting. The trail system is excellent, with recent improvements by the BLM trail crew. While firewood can be scarce and mosquitoes are prevalent, many guests enjoyed their stays and appreciated the overall experience.
Review Summary
Nathan B
VerifiedFebruary 20, 2022 • Stayed at: Cache Mountain, Loop: Cache Mountain
White Mountains cabins never dissappoint. Cache Mountain was no exception to that. If you can hack rustic and remote, and can bring what you need to be successful you'll have a great time. Both lanterns were beat up pretty badly, but we had our own. Otherwise, accomodations were up to our expectations.
Tyler K
VerifiedFebruary 18, 2022 • Stayed at: Crowberry, Loop: Crowberry
Excellent in every way!!
Mark N
VerifiedFebruary 11, 2022 • Stayed at: Cache Mountain, Loop: Cache Mountain
Excellent trailhead (McKay Creek), trail, and cabin! We cut a bunch of firewood and left, but others should also try to do the same. The wind howled all night long, but we still stayed warm. Thank you.
Please build more cabins in the White Mountains.
Eyal S
VerifiedJanuary 22, 2022 • Stayed at: Eleazars, Loop: Eleazars
The cabin experience was great. Keep track of the weather, Facebook BLM, and public trail reports, and sometimes worth calling the staff that grooms the trail for a detailed report.
Tamara R
VerifiedJanuary 21, 2022 • Stayed at: Eleazars, Loop: Eleazars
Three groomers preceded me on the trail, so that was extremely appreciated, but it would have been excellent even without that. My only recommendation would be for everyone to bring their own hand saw, as the resident tools are too dull to use. And toilet paper.....
kenneth c
VerifiedJanuary 20, 2022 • Stayed at: Cache Mountain, Loop: Cache Mountain
It took 10 hours to get to the cabin ,via the white mountain trail. There was no firewood and the wood stove needs rope to seal the door for more even heat. Otherwise the country is beautiful and enjoy being there.
James H
VerifiedJanuary 9, 2022 • Stayed at: Richard's, Loop: Richard's
Great cabin and trails were nice. We enjoyed our stay. Looking forward to the next trip
Duane C
VerifiedJanuary 1, 2022 • Stayed at: Cache Mountain, Loop: Cache Mountain
Catch mountain cabin, very nice place. Nice place to stay after a da6 in the cold.
Paul W
VerifiedDecember 29, 2021 • Stayed at: Fred Blixt, Loop: Fred Blixt
Fantastic cabin, stayed warm extremely long, even in cold weather. We were up looking for Caribou in the Forty-Mile White Mountains herd. Although we were unsuccessful, the cabin made the trip much more enjoyable. There was a propane stove, lantern, pots, and a woodstove. It was tidy and delightful! What's more, it snowed the first day of our three night stay, and a plow truck had cleared the access all the way to the cabin by the second day!
Todd V
VerifiedDecember 25, 2021 • Stayed at: Borealis-LeFevre, Loop: Borealis-LeFevre
Great weekend!
Location White Mountains National Recreation Area - Alaska Cabins
Address:
222 University Ave
Fairbanks, AK, 99709
United States
Traveling north from Fairbanks, take the Steese Highway on through Fox. There is a trailhead at Milepost 42 and 57 of the Steese Highway to access some of the cabins. Traveling north on the Elliott Highway from Fox, there are two trailheads at Milepost 28 and 57 of the Elliott Highway to access the White Mountains from the west side. For further information contact BLM district office.
Latitude & Longitude: 65.4275 / -147.243
Elevation: 538 feet
Policies & Rules
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The cabins must be reserved prior to use. |
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You must have your permit with you during your stay. Print your email confirmation as proof of reservation or have it accessible on your smart phone. |
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Dog owners are responsible for cleaning up after their dogs, including straw. |
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Pack out what you bring in. |
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Please leave dry firewood inside cabin for the next user. |
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Discharging of firearms is prohibited within 1/4 mile of the cabin and across trails. |
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Please close the cabin windows, shutters, outhouse doors, and cabin when leaving. |
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The BLM strives to maintain cabin tools and equipment in good working order, but visitors should be prepared to be self-sufficient. Cabin Amenities: Bunks, table/benches, cooking area, storage loft, woodstove for heating, ax, bowsaw, propane cookstove, outhouse, broom/dust pan, shovel and rake, smoke detector and a fire extinguisher (Visitors are responsible for their own travel arrangements and safety, and must bring their own required amenities not included at the cabin). |
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The cabin does not have electricity, or running water. Visitors must bring their own food, water or water treatment system, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, matches, utensils, toilet paper, first aid kit, 2 AA batteries for the smoke detector, 1-pound propane bottles for the cook stove, and garbage bags. |
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Standing dead wood may be available nearby for cutting firewood. It is advised to bring your own firewood to assure you have some when you arrive. Please report missing or broken items to BLM. |
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Reservations: The cabin must be reserved in advance and paid for when you make your reservation. Stays are limited to three consecutive nights per cabin. Reservations cost $42 per night plus a rec.gov fee of $8 and may be made up to 45 days in advance. Reservations are from noon to noon. Weekends and holidays are times of peak use. A computer terminal will be available at the Fairbanks District Office for those individuals lacking computer access to make reservations online. |
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Please visit the BLM's White Mountain National Recreation Area website for a larger map suitable for online viewing or printing. |
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https://www.blm.gov/visit/white-mountains/ Scroll to the bottom of the page for Trail Conditions updates. |
