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About Swan Lake Cabin Seward
Number of accommodations: 1
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Campground Amenities
Most popular amenities
Cooking and Fire
- Firewood Available
On Site Services
- Bocce Ball
Water Access
- Lake Access
Cabin Interior
- Heating
Views and Setting
- View
- Waterfront
S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
Site Details
Reviews (22)
What Guests Are Saying
Swan Lake Cabin offers a beautiful setting with scenic views, easy lake access for boating, and cozy amenities like a wood stove. While some found the fishing lacking and the approach trail overgrown, the cabin's charm and comfort, along with opportunities for activities like canoeing and Bocci Ball, make it a favorite summer retreat. Improvements to the cabin's windows enhance the overall experience, providing more light and warmth.
What Guests Are Saying
Swan Lake Cabin offers a beautiful setting with scenic views, easy lake access for boating, and cozy amenities like a wood stove. While some found the fishing lacking and the approach trail overgrown, the cabin's charm and comfort, along with opportunities for activities like canoeing and Bocci Ball, make it a favorite summer retreat. Improvements to the cabin's windows enhance the overall experience, providing more light and warmth.
Review Summary
Elizabeth H
VerifiedJanuary 27, 2023 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
Great little cabin. However, there was no firewood readily available due to it being a no snow machine year. Upon arrival to the cabin we had to fell 2 trees for firewood. Luckily (but unfortunately) there is plenty of spruce beetle kill and a pretty decent axe and saw at the cabin. The stove worked great and got the place very toasty. The creek was accessible for fresh water, yet we often just melted snow. The previous cabin-dwellers kinda left of mess, both inside and outside. We dug out a walkway to the wood storage shed and removed the majority of the trash that was left behind.
Cynthia S
VerifiedMarch 14, 2023 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
Great cabin nice big windows and light colored walls makes it not so dark. Great place to ski.
Ron F
VerifiedJune 12, 2023 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
we have been going here yearly for nearly 30 years,,,it is a very peaceful and special place in the wilderness..
Jennifer D
VerifiedAugust 16, 2023 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
Such a beautiful cabin on a beautiful lake! The canoes were an awesome addition and I love that this cabin's stove has the glass pane for seeing the fire - such a small thing, but a difference I noticed. We saw a family of loons on the lake and salmon! Swan Lake Cabin was my favorite cabin on the trail - we hope to come stay again!
Tonia S
VerifiedJanuary 21, 2024 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
Good snow cover and a packed down trail made for easy access. Lake was froze over but did have some overflow. Some open creeks still so be careful if going off trail!
Ronald H
VerifiedJuly 10, 2024 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
Great location with views of Swan Lake and a short path to a small gravel beach w/ a rowboat & canoe. Cabin & outhouse were clean; firewood provided though we didn't need it on a warm June evening; and a few basic supplies left by others. Out group of 3 enjoyed our night at Swan Lake.
Cynthia S
VerifiedMarch 27, 2025 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
Cabin in good shape, windows have improved, there is more light.
Melinda R
VerifiedJune 18, 2025 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
We were so thankful for a wood stove and a place to get warm after a long day of hiking in the rain/sleet. I was impressed at the tools available to use for firewood.
The swan lake cabin is smaller in size than all the others we saw on the trail, we were cozy, maybe better for getting warm.
Cathryn T
VerifiedJuly 7, 2025 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
This cabin had a beautiful view of the lake with easy accessibility for boating and a morning bath. The trail in from the winter route of the Resurrection trail was terribly overgrown and difficult at the end of an 11 mile day. But the trail out to Juneau lake was excellent.
Sheri K
VerifiedJuly 13, 2025 • Stayed at: S09, Loop: AREA SWAN LAKE CABIN SEWARD
Swan Lake cabin is our favorite summer cabin. Beautiful scenery, lake fishing, campfire, flat ground to play Bocci Ball and just enough off Resurrection Pass Trail to NOT have the looky loos coming up to the cabin to just see it.
Once in a while you get the treat of watching a float plane land or take off from the West Swan cabin.
Location Swan Lake Cabin Seward
Address:
Seward Ranger District, 33599 Ranger Station Spur
Seward, AK, 99664
United States
From Resurrection Pass Trail South Trailhead at milepost 53.2 on the Sterling Highway, hike 12.8 miles to the cabin or take a floatplane (30 minutes from Moose Pass, 15 minutes from Cooper Landing). Refer to USGS map, Seward C8. Maps are available online or by calling the Seward Ranger District at 907-288-3178.
Winter travelers need to be able to evaluate avalanche and over-ice travel conditions. For more current travel conditions call the district office. The trail is closed to horse/pack stock from April 1 to June 30, and is open to over-snow motorized vehicles from Dec. 1 to April 30 every other winter season, beginning with the winter of 2007-2008. It is closed to motorized vehicles every other winter season beginning with the 2008-2009 winter season.
The nearest major road is the Sterling Highway, which is accessible at milepost 53.2. From there, it is a 12.8-mile hike on Resurrection Pass Trail South to reach the cabin.
Elevation: 427 feet
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Last updated: September 7, 2026