Manitoba Cabin and Yurts

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Alaska Huts is no longer renting out single or double bunk rentals in either Spirit Walker or Toba’s Yurt. The kitchen, dining area, sauna and outhouses are all shared spaces.If you are uncomfortable sharing spaces, please book out the Whole Shebang for a more private rental. There is hand sanitizer, bleach, simple green, paper towels and clean hand towels on site for you to use. Please clean up before and after your stay. Please be aware that staff and maintenance volunteers may be at the property between 9am and 4pm any day of the week. Thank you for supporting Alaska Huts, even during these unprecedented times!

Perched at the top of Canyon Creek gorge in a historic mining area next to great skiing and hiking in the Kenai Mountains, Manitoba Cabin offers families and individuals a unique lodging experience. Patrons rent yurts or one indoor bedroom?and then share communal cooking, dining and social space inside a large, rustic cabin with authentic Gold Rush roots. The setting?on the ?wild side? of Canyon Creek beside a multi-use trail that climbs through a hemlock-spruce forest up Manitoba Mountain?has the ambience of old-time Alaskan roadhouse far off the grid. And yet, it?s only about a half-mile walk over trails and historic byways from parking at Mile 48 of the Seward Highway.

Operated by the non-profit Alaska Mountain and Wilderness Huts Association, Manitoba Cabin is intended to promote wilderness experience and camaraderie. You might share a campfire with other travelers on their Alaskan adventure, or find your dinner stew anchoring a spontaneous potluck with new friends. While very popular among backcountry skiers during winter weekends, the facility often has openings during weekdays. During the summer, you might have the entire place to yourself.

Amenities

Manitoba offers sleeping space for up to 24 people. The main cabin contains a wood heating stove, a propane cook stove with an oven, a French drain for dishwater, counters with benches and tables, and space for stashing gear out of the weather. Fuel is provided. You?ll also find cooking utensils, dishes, cups and silverware?everything you need to prepare your meals except the food. Water must be carried from crystal Canyon Creek and must be sterilized or filtered. A solar panel system powers indoor lights.

Two airy, 16-foot yurts are available to rent each contain four single and two double bunks and wood stoves; both yurts welcome furry companions but please keep them off the beds! For people seeking more privacy, the cabin offers a ?hut keeper?s? bedroom with sleeping space for two that has a propane heater.

Completing the scene are a wood-fired sauna, two pit toilets, and a campfire ring famous for S?mores and gatherings that stretch long into Alaska?s dusky summer nights.