BARNES LAKE CABIN


Description

Camping Reservations
Cabin is a 12' X 12' precut cedar log cabin equipped with wooden bunks (sleeping space for 4-6 people), table, benches, wood stove for heat, and an outside toilet. It does not have mattresses or cooking utensils. Cabin users should bring their own water (no freshwater source near cabin), sleeping bags, pads, cook stoves, matches, cooking gear, food, lantern, toilet paper, and garbage bags. A boat with oars is provided (boat uses a long shaft motor - not provided). Wood supply cannot be guaranteed. Please be conservative with wood use and bring a cook stove for cooking.

Extreme care is advised if traveling through Indian Creek Rapids and Lake Bay Creek. Areas can be extremely dangerous and should not be attempted except at high slack tide. Tide does not necessarily follow tide table.
Summer runs for coho and pink salmon occur in the coastal waters. Good crabbing. The forest near Barnes Lake Cabin is old growth spruce and hemlock. Vegetation is abundant, with numerous plant species, shrubs, ferns and grasses.


Getting There:

Barnes Lake Cabin (AK)

Ketchikan/Thorne Bay AK

The cabin is located on the West shore of Barnes Lake, Prince of Wales Island. Barnes Lake is 70 air miles from Ketchikan and 38 air miles from the City of Craig on the Prince of Wales Island. Refer to USGS map Petersburg A-3.

 

 
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