May Creek Cabin

Excellent! New Mattresses! Dryer Firewood!

We have rented the May Creek cabin several times in the past years. What a disappointment to find the wood shed full of green wood ! We heat solely with wood at home so we are quite experienced with wood stove operation, it’s pretty frustrating to get heat out of wet/green wood. In the past we have been guilty of getting tag cabin too warm . Also the provided propane cook stove leaks propane where the bottle screws on so could not use it . The “back up “ stove is just a pile of junk parts . Lost a lot of faith in the USFS after this trip.

This was my first time to the May Creek Cabin. What a nice structure in a beautiful setting. The people who stayed the night before left everything in immaculate condition.
Hats off to the Forest Service for offering and maintaining such a top notch shelter!

Always a great time at a sweet, special place.

Great cabin! From the highway this is a 2.5 mile ski in, annnd it’s non-motorized! What a place, enjoy!

The good:
1 room cabin with 2 bunk beds and mattress pads. No ladders to climb into upper bunks though.

Very peaceful and serene.

Nice island dining table with cool branches supporting and bench seats.

Good equipped kitchen.

Wood stove.

Both battery and propane canister lanterns.

Clothes lines with hangers.

2 burner propane camp stove but you need to bring propane.

Fairy light string and solar LUCI LED lights have been left.

Curtains on 2 of the windows. The one without has nice view of May Creek and meadow.

Nice porch and fire pit.

Picnic bench.

May Creek flows by and is surprising deep for wading or cooling off in summer. Some small trout.

Old school pit toilet with modern seats and moon cut out on door. Fun supplied Styrofoam cut out to insulate the cold seat.

As usual the Wisdom Ranger District has supplied emergency supplies and tools for the cabin. Something we have not seen with any other district we have been to.

The bad:
Upon arrival to trail some horseback riders were returning so had to look for horse poop for first mile. Not sure if this is standard practice.

Easy walk but several downed trees over trail and grass has overgrown spots.

At the beginning there is a bridge across part of May Creek but another part just past the bridge you have to scramble over cut up logs to stay dry. Another bridge would be nice.

No sink in cabin but there is a dish pan.

We have Verizon and we had no service. While some are happy to leave that behind those who have an emergency or are always kind of working this is an issue. There was 4bar LTE service about 12.9 miles east of the campground on Hwy 43 or a couple of bars at Chief Joseph Pass 11 miles west on 43.

The combination did not work on the wood shed. Not sure if it is busted or they do not all access to wood until colder weather.

Was one of the last affordable cabins at $25 for a cheap getaway but soon to be $45.

Combination doesn't work on the woodshed.

A beautiful place, with a sculpted covering of snow in the meadows.

This is a quaint little cabin nestled in a beautiful valley. We love this cabin! We appreciate that in order to get to the cabin you have to get there via your own power, ie, non-motorized! In our case it was a ski in....it was a beautiful ski in and we appreciate that the Forest Service keeps the route open by cutting out fallen trees.

The only negative comment we have is that the wood stove does not seem to work consistently. It would be great to see the stove get some maintenance, or potentially a new small efficient stove.

Also, byo toilet paper even though it says tp will be stocked, this was not the case and could be troublesome!

Thank you for keeping the cabin experience great!

Glad to see that the cabin survived the Trail Creek fire! This is a wonderful place and I’m very happy to see that the public is taking care of this valuable resource.