Reviews for this site — 001, Loop: AREA WEST FORK CABIN

4.5
(19 reviews)

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melissa A Verified
Stayed date
Sep 2023

Long long LONG drive on a dirt road to get to the cabin, but the location is awesome!

Daniel N Verified
Stayed date
Apr 2022

A mouse mansion. The good: The cabin is in a beautiful setting with mountains all around and no human noise. The propane stove and water pump make life very easy for a cabin in the middle of nowhere and the cabin has a lovely kitchen table. The neutral: It gets very windy in the area, so expect the cabin to be shaking a bit in the wind gusts. That's to be expected anywhere along the Rocky Mountain Front, but it might catch some people by surprise or make it difficult to sleep. The bad: There are gaps all over the cabin, both inside and out: Gaps on the outside wall panels, gaps on the inside wall panels, gaps around the door, gaps around the windows. Why does this matter? Rodents. The cabin was very nice until the sun went down. After dark, all of the mice become active and start running all about the cabin: running around in the stove, on the stove, running up the walls, running around the windowsills, running up the bed. Overnight, a mouse chewed the nose rests off of my eyeglasses that were sitting in my hiking boot. A mouse also ran up and touched my head in bed. With all of this activity, I received next to no sleep. Despite renting the cabin for 2 nights, I left after 1 so I could go get some sleep away from the curious little critters. The cabin is in some serious need of maintenance to seal off some of the many gaps that create entrance to a perfectly heated mouse sauna. Keep a perfectly clean cabin and keep all of your food and trash sealed in hard containers. I was glad I did, as the mice never got into any of my food or trash. Nonetheless, it didn't discourage the mice from trying their best to get into the containers all night, nor did it discourage the mice from hopping in my clean pan and uninating in it. Consider brining a pet bobcat with you.