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4.2
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Dorothy D Verified
Stayed date
Sep 2023

This is not a bad cabin, and under other circumstances, like winter, it may be a nice stay. However when we checked in in August, the stench of death was unbearable. The Forest Service folks in Ashland need to check this rental for dead mice, and if someone sets mouse traps, THEY NEED TO CLEAR THEM. It was hot and when I opened the door the fumes were overwhelming. We aired it out with the windows and all the electric fans (so peaceful!) and cleared out 4 rotting or mummified mice. When was the last time anyone looked? 3 were in traps under the fridge and stove in various stages of decay, and another was dried up in a bowl on the cupboard. All the bowls were turned up so that birds, bird feathers, mice and mouse poop can find its way there. My buddy slept in his truck in fear of hantavirus, and we didn't use the stove because of all the mouse poop and fur on the burners. It may have been fine. Without electricity this place would not be livable in summer. I would rather have the mice alive and crawling over my face at night than the rotting corpses and that smell. I still cannot get it out of my nose!! The cabin condition overall is decent and it has amenities. Having a fridge is handy. It is in a nice location, about 10 degrees cooler than down lower, and the woodpeckers and songbirds are highly concentrated in this small few acres of older pines that were spared from the surrounding fire. It was just really, really, really stinky. Not worth $65/night. For that much someone should go at least check it before someone checks in. Bad deal for me, USFS... Won't do that again.