Spectacular location. Cabin is very well kept and comes with firewood. If you come in a floatplane, beware of the rocks on the way into the beach and stay to your left.

This is an amazing cabin! We paddled around the lake in the canoe provided and saw a lot of salmon, and birds, no bear sightings though a lot of signs. We were able to catch some trout for dinner and gather some berries. The weather was perfect! Thank you! There was too much leftover food left from others for us to carry it all out. Pack it in pack it out please.

Nice cabin! Saw 6 bears We flew in and it took us a few minutes to find the right cabin. There’s a couple others on the lake. Public use cabin is right by the outlet stream

The cabin is great. The boat provided is marginal at best, it leaks and hasn’t been fixed in YEARS. The last 5 miles of the 11 miles trail in from the Upper Russian trailhead is covered with 5’ Devil’s club and brush so is very wet most of the time! Blueberries are plentiful, enjoy!

My favorite cabin of the three on the Russian Lakes Trail. It is the most authentic, rustic “log cabin” with hand hewn walls, beams and roof. I really liked the hand made furniture: chairs, benches, table and bed frames. And the view of the Upper Russian Lake from the beach area was spectacular. This cabin also had the best sleeping arrangement of the 3 cabins with adequate space for 4 people on the bottom bunks and 2 people on top. None of the cabins were built for 8 people unless 2 are willing to sleep on the floor. The only downside of this cabin is that the interior has less light than the other 2, partly because of the surrounding cottonwood trees and partly because of the smaller windows. But overall we were quite pleased with this cabin.

Cabin was in good shape. Not much wood left as of 2/14/22

Great cabin. Feels like the real Alaska. Be near aware!

The cabin was in great shape. As per the logbook, a previous hiker had recovered the rowboat, which presumably had been improperly tied up by someone prior. Immediately before my stay, a USFS ranger made temporary repairs to the boat, and we were able to take it out on the lake for a short trip. (The ranger advised that a new boat was on-order.) No bear sightings, but we saw salmon entering the lake and a young porcupine near the cabin.

Great little cabin with lots of character and plenty of firewood.

Great getaway