Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Cabins
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:42 UTC
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge is known world-wide for its iconic wildlife. Visitors journey here to view Kodiak brown bears and majestic bald eagles, fish for all five species of Pacific salmon, hunt big game, watch marine life, and plenty of other wildlife related activities. The refuge is located on the rugged Kodiak Archipelago in the Gulf of Alaska, 252 miles southwest of Anchorage. It covers 1.9 million acres on Kodiak, Uganik, Ban and Afognak Islands, and is only accessible by float-plane or boat. Keep reading
Recreation
Kodiak Refuge is an ideal destination for wildlife viewing, hunting, hiking, kayaking, fishing, camping and other types of outdoor adventures. Adventurous, full or half-day flight-seeing trips are also a popular activity in this vast and beautiful area. Popular fishing destinations such as the Uganik, Karluk and Ayakulik Rivers, offer world-class angler opportunities. With elk, Sitka black-tailed deer, mountain goats, and brown bears in the area, the refuge offers multiple hunting possibilities.
Facilities
The refuge currently maintains 10 public-use cabins, each available on a reservation basis. The cabins are rustic and equipped with basic amenities including bunk beds without mattresses, a table and chairs, and an exterior storage cache for supplies, or fish and game meat storage. Outhouse-style toilets are also provided. Cabins are also equipped with Nordic-brand stoves for heating. They can burn kerosene, home heating oil or automotive diesel, and 1-3 gallons per day is usually sufficient. Never use gasoline, Blazo, Coleman fuel or similar products. Be sure to use heating stoves according to posted directions. Please watch this video on stove use ---> Nordic Stove Operation Please plan on being self-sufficient during your stay, bring everything you need and take everything back out. Do not leave any items behind, like salt, food, etc.
Natural Features
Misty fiords, deep glacial valleys and lofty mountains distinguish the refuge landscape. Diverse habitats encompass 117 salmon-bearing streams, 16 lakes, riparian wetlands, grasslands, shrub lands, Sitka spruce forest, tundra and alpine meadows. Collectively, these habitats are home to approximately 3,000 brown bears, account for up to 30 million salmon caught by the Kodiak-based fishing fleet, support more than 400 breeding pairs of bald eagles and provide essential migration and breeding habitats for another 250 species of fish, birds and mammals. Kodiak has a maritime climate. The weather is variable, but cool, wet and windy conditions prevail. Hypothermia is a possibility at any time of year without the proper attire. Regardless of the season, always bring warm, waterproof gear and be prepared for weather delays during arrival or departure.
Nearby Attractions
Kodiak Island houses six permanent villages, four of which are surrounded by refuge lands: Karluk, Larsen Bay, Akhiok and Old Harbor. Port Lions and Ouzinkie are several miles north of the refuge. Two small airlines service these villages on a daily basis.
What the agency tells you
The following are not provided: transportation to cabins, lighting, running water, cooking stoves, pots, pans, dishware, utensils, fuel for heaters (kerosene, #1 heating oil, or automotive diesel), and toiletries. This list is not inclusive, please plan on being self-sufficient during your stay, bring everything you need and take everything back out. Do not leave any items behind, like salt, food, etc.
Bear Safety: Be bear aware. It is possible to encounter bears at any time of year. Publications on bear safety are available from Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge and at various locations around Kodiak.
Watch stove instruction video --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-HQJApWHw&feature=youtu.be
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Public Use Cabins: click here.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10 · 10 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 10 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Coast, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
1 of 18 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:42 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:42 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites · the site map
All 10 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 10 of the 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BLUE FOX BAY CABIN | BLUE FOX BAY CABIN | cabin nonelectric | 241 ft | $45 |
| CHIEF COVE | CHIEF COVE CABIN | cabin nonelectric | $45 | |
| DEADMAN BAY | DEADMAN BAY CABIN | cabin nonelectric | 419 ft | $45 |
| LITTLE RIVER CABIN | LITTLE RIVER CABIN | cabin nonelectric | 88 ftLittle River Lake | $45 |
| LITTLE WATERFALL LAKE CABIN | LITTLE WATERFALL LAKE CABIN | cabin nonelectric | $45 | |
| NORTH FRAZER LAKE CABIN | NORTH FRAZER LAKE CABIN | cabin nonelectric | 165 ftFrazer Lake | $45 |
| SOUTH FRAZER LAKE CABIN | SOUTH FRAZER LAKE CABIN | cabin nonelectric | 412 ftFrazer Lake | $45 |
| UGANIK ISLAND CABIN | UGANIK ISLAND CABIN | cabin nonelectric | 2,301 ft | $45 |
| UGANIK LAKE CABIN | UGANIK LAKE CABIN | cabin nonelectric | 124 ftUganik Lake | $45 |
| VIEKODA BAY CABIN | VIEKODA BAY CABIN | cabin nonelectric | 15 ft | $45 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
There are no roads or maintained trails in Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. All cabins are accessible by float plane. Blue Fox Bay, Uganik Island, and Viekoda Bay are also accessible by boat. Refuge employees cannot assist in making travel arrangements, but can provide a current list of charter operators permitted to transport customers into the refuge. To obtain this list please contact the refuge headquarters at (888) 408-3514.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kodiak Station, AK
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 48°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Cabins is in Alaska’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Nick Begich (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →