"Raw wilderness on this grand a scale makes me feel somewhat irrelevant
...The quick cure for such a feeling is to be warmly greeted with chocolate chip cookies fresh from the [Denali Wilderness Lodge's] oven."


  
Diana C. Gleasner
     Arizona Daily Star

History of the Lodge
Almost 100 years ago, this wilderness outpost, set among over a million acres in the Alaska Range, was started as a hunters' basecamp to provide meat for goldminers and railroad construction crews. In 1965, the rustic camp was purchased by world-renowned hunter Lynn Castle who established an exclusive hunters' retreat for the very wealthy. It took him 15 years to build the main lodge. And no wonder, with the season between snows short and the distance to supplies long. He even flew in, piece by piece, a sawmill. Castle died in the early 1990's, and few have hunted here since. Today, we hunt only with cameras, emphasizing an appreciation of nature and we invite you to get a sense of Alaska's splendor - on foot, on horseback, or from a rocking chair on your cabin's front porch.

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