Green Island Cabin

$75.00/night

PO BOX 280
CORDOVA, AK 99574

Overview

Green Island Cabin offers guests a remote lodging experience in the Chugach National Forest. Situated on the northwest side of Green Island, the cabin offers guests year-round recreation and relaxation. Fishing, hunting and wildlife viewing are available within the area.

Access to the cabin is by float plane or boat. Visitors are responsible for their own travel arrangements and safety, and must bring several of their own amenities. This facility is wheelchair-accessible.

Recreation

Anglers will find several creeks flowing into the bay. In mid-July, pink salmon spawn in most of the little creeks, and coho arrive in August. Some of the lakes in the area have good-sized cutthroat trout and Dolly Varden. Fishing for halibut and rockfish in the nearby ocean waters is accessible with a boat.

Hunters can take advantage of a long hunting season on the island. Sitka black-tailed deer can be challenging to hunt, but worth traversing the terrain.

Facilities

The cabin is 16-by-20 and fully wheelchair-accessible. It is furnished with wooden bunks that sleep up to six guests. Other amenities include a table, benches, wood and oil stoves for heat, a rainwater catchment barrel, axe, splitting maul, saw and an outdoor pit toilet.

The cabin does not have running water, electricity, cut firewood or heating oil. Visitors must bring their own water for drinking, cooking and washing, as well as #1 stove oil for the oil stove.

Visitors must bring food, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, a cook stove, matches, cooking gear, lanterns or flashlights, toilet paper, a first aid kit and garbage bags. All trash and food must be packed out, and visitors are expected to clean the cabin before leaving.

Natural Features

The cabin is located on Green Island between Gibbon Anchorage (a shallow bay) and Prince William Sound. The surrounding terrain is a spruce and hemlock forest with boggy muskeg openings. Wildlife in the area abounds, including migratory waterfowl and Sitka black-tailed deer.

The beaches on the Prince William Sound shoreline offer expansive views of the water and surrounding mountains. Occasionally, humpback and killer whales can be seen spouting offshore. Sea otters and other sea mammals are in the area as well.

Camp site features

Across 1 camp site:

ADA accessible: all 1 sites
Largest party: 6 people

Fees

Only one change per reservation for all Alaska cabins is allowed. Change is defined as a modification to the start or end date of the reservation; after one change has been made, if additional changes are desired, the customer must cancel the current reservation and re-book the new dates.

Directions

The cabin is located on the northwest end of Green Island in Gibbon Anchorage. It is accessible via float plane (40 minutes from Cordova, 60 minutes from Seward) or boat (75 miles from Cordova, 70 miles from Whittier, 100 miles from Seward). Boaters should use caution and watch for uncharted rocks in this area. Click here for local tide information. Inclement weather conditions may cause an extension of your trip during any time of the year and winter access can be difficult due to snow and ice conditions. Guests should bring extra supplies to last 2-5 days Please contact the Cordova Ranger District at (907) 424-7661 prior to arrival for more detailed information about safety precautions.

Stay Limit

Check in from 12 PM, check out by 12 PM.

Reviews

13 reviews

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Jaiden B

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Reviewed 9 days ago

Excellent Cabin with a beautiful view! We were glad for the oil stove on top of the wood fireplace to take off the chill of late October. If you’re there in the fall, I would recommend bring fuel for both!

Mitchell G

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Reviewed a year ago

My favorite cabin in all of Alaska, although I haven't been to many. I look forward to this trip every year. It's a jaunt out there, so I always hope the weather is good. I was lucky this year.

Seth B

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Reviewed a year ago

Exceptional experience. Makes Alaska living easy.

Matthew S

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Reviewed 3 years ago

Cabin is very nice, and the location is outstanding! There are deer in the area, there are no black bear on the island. Harbor is excellent for boats, access is easy, although I would be extra careful at low tide. My ATT phone had 2 bars. There is a little propane stove to heat water and food. The oil furnace works really good, but signs are posted saying to only using heating oil, no kerosene, etc. I have made a short video about our last trip to Green Island, showing off the cabin here: https://youtu.be/GaN8BuEzbJo

Lyle C

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Reviewed 4 years ago

Previous guests had left so much stuff behind that the shelves were mostly full. We hauled a full contractor bag away with us. Please don't leave anything behind besides maybe fuel and water.

Edward W

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Reviewed 4 years ago

Cabin and deck are nice and comfortable. You can enjoy a great view of the sound or set on the beach, weather permitting, in front of the cabin. However, the toilet needs to be emptied and taken care of as it is getting to the point that the pile will soon reach the seat. I suggest that you bring one of the small, inexpensive battery powered fuel transfer pumps to transfer the kerosene from your container into the cabin kerosene holding tank as the fill port for the tank is at about eye level above the deck for the average height person. (My nephew splashed kerosene into his eye because of the height of the fill spout). It wasn't serious as we were able to flush it out of his eye with water, However, it could have easily been worse and could have splashed onto his clothing as well. (I have since purchased on of the small transfer pumps at my local hardware store for about $40.00.) Aside from these issues it is a very pleasant and functional cabin. We come into the cove at low tide using the GPS for marked rock avoidance and had two people on the bow for visual observance. After that we followed the "tracks" on the GPS in and out. The low tide we come in on was a +0.7, the shallowest water we encountered was approximately eight freet so at minus tides one would obviously encounter shallower water. All in all a good time and good experience. It was 2½ hours from Whitter to the island running at about 26 mph. I recommend that you consider extra fuel as we had to run back to Whittier to get more fuel, and had to limit our site seeing excursions,

Availability

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Reserve

Popularity: Busy

Busiest in November, when about 73% of guest capacity is reserved. Based on 4 years of reservations.