Reviews for this site — 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN

4.5
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Katie B Verified
Stayed date
Nov 2021

Bring your own padlock for use on the back door while you are staying. We had the unsettling experience of finding the place had been unlocked by someone and left that way one afternoon while we were out. Creepy, though nothing was taken. Don't think you are the only one who knows the combination! They don't change it often enough! Mice are active. Bring your own dishes and cookware in a mouse-proof tote. Same with the food items that won't go in the fridge. Electric stove's oven does not work but top burners do. Look for pots stored in oven. Use wood stoves to keep hot water going all the time (wash water & humidity). We brought a crock pot, very useful. Top bunks are hazardous and hard to climb in and out. No siderails or handles. We brought a stepladder which helped but was still too short. Headroom between top and bottom bunks too short for adults to sit comfortably. We brought a cot, which was useful after one night braving an upper bunk. Bunks have cloth-covered box springs, and vinyl-covered foam pads on top of those. The box springs are grimy. Glad we brought brought fitted sheets and mattress pads which we used on the vinyl pads, with our sleeping bags on top. They still reeked after 2 nights. Bring drinking water. We got water to heat for washing from the creek, and went to the spring in the lower canyon to refill drinking water containers. There was a table lamp in the kitchen, which can be moved, but you might like to bring another for the bedroom. The overhead lights are bare LED or CFL bulbs, rather glaring cool spectrum for this cozy warm-colored cabin.

Katie B Verified
Stayed date
Nov 2021

Bring your own padlock for use on the back door while you are staying. We had the unsettling experience of finding the place had been unlocked by someone and left that way one afternoon while we were out. Creepy, though nothing was taken. Don't think you are the only one who knows the combination! They don't change it often enough! Mice are active. Bring your own dishes and cookware in a mouse-proof tote. Same with the food items that won't go in the fridge. Electric stove's oven does not work but top burners do. Look for pots stored in oven. Use wood stoves to keep hot water going all the time (wash water & humidity). We brought a crock pot, very useful. Top bunks are hazardous and hard to climb in and out. No siderails or handles. We brought a stepladder which helped but was still too short. Headroom between top and bottom bunks too short for adults to sit comfortably. We brought a cot, which was useful after one night braving an upper bunk. Bunks have cloth-covered box springs, and vinyl-covered foam pads on top of those. The box springs are grimy. Glad we brought brought fitted sheets and mattress pads which we used on the vinyl pads, with our sleeping bags on top. They still reeked after 2 nights. Bring drinking water. We got water to heat for washing from the creek, and went to the spring in the lower canyon to refill drinking water containers. There was a table lamp in the kitchen, which can be moved, but you might like to bring another for the bedroom. The overhead lights are bare LED or CFL bulbs, rather glaring cool spectrum for this cozy warm-colored cabin.