S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:41 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Newly constructed in 2026, S’igeidí Aas Hídi cabin offers a truly unique experience to visitors and locals alike. Facing Signal Creek, you can hear the rushing of the water from the ABA compliant cabin. Inside you will find a single and double bunk bed along with table, kitchen area, and an open loft upstairs. Ketchikan Misty Fjords Ranger Districts first drive to cabin lets you take advantage of all the activities at the Ward Lake Recreation Area. The cabin is accessible by road the Ward Lake Road and at the entrance to the Signal Creek Campground. Have a fire in the fire ring or enjoy the flames of the propane heat in the cabin. Enjoy the Tongass National Forest old growth trees, abundant hiking trails, and diverse wildlife. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking is a popular option, as the Ward Lake Recreation Area boasts seven trails. The Ward Lake Nature Trail meanders 1.3 miles around the Ward Lake. A large day-use complex with picnic sites and reservable shelters is also available. Freshwater fishing, canoeing, kayaking, wildlife viewing and scenery are favorite draws to the area.
Facilities
This 20-by-16 cabin with a 12-by-16 covered deck give you plenty of space to spread out. Inside you will find a bunk bed with a single and double bed and an empty loft space to accommodate large groups. It is also equipped with a table and benches, broom, a propane stove and an outhouse nearby. Water can be found at the hand pump in the campground, wood maybe available with the campground host. There is no electricity. Items to pack include sleeping bags, sleeping pads, lanterns or flashlights, cookware, plates, utensils, food, toilet paper, garbage bags, and matches, among other necessities. Guests are expected to pack out trash if the garbage cans are full and clean the cabin before leaving. The door does have a coded lock. The code is changed weekly. Make sure you check your reservation details for the four-digit code.
Natural Features
The S’igeidí Aas Hídi cabin is located within the Signal Creek Campground. The area is surrounded by an old-growth temperate rainforest comprised primarily of western hemlock and Sitka spruce. Signal Creek flows by the front of the cabin and Ward Lake is near by. At nearly 17 million acres, the Tongass National Forest covers most of Southeast Alaska and is the largest forest in the national forest system. The Tongass surrounds the Inside Passage, the network of waterways that buffers the jagged Alaskan Coast and a cluster of coastline islands. The Tongass offers visitors a chance to view wildlife, including eagles, bears and spawning salmon. Expansive vistas, including fjords, glaciers and mountain peaks abound.
Charges & Cancellations
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.
What the agency tells you
- Check in time is 4 PM. Check out time is 2 PM. - There is a 14 day stay limit in 60 consecutive days within the Ward Lake Recreation Area campgrounds and cabin. - Door code will be located on your reservation information. - Black bears frequent the area, especially during August and September; all food should be stored inside the cabin or in the bear box. - Signal Creek is a salmon spawning creek. Please be aware that August and September, decaying fish and odors will be present. - Firewood may be available but is not guaranteed - Use of the cabin is not permitted by commercial guides. - Please refrain from harming trees, ie nailing into or cutting trees. These actions accelerate rot. - Click here to learn more about Tongass National Forest - Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by purchasing firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “It is also equipped with a table and benches, broom, a propane stove and an outhouse nearby.”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Coast
- Berry Picking
- Canoeing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Swimming
Full this Saturdayread 15:41 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
2 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 15:55 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 15:41 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
“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.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 2
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 15:55 UTC
- Signal Creek CampgroundTongass National Forest · 0.0 mi · 44 of 44 site-nights open
- Last Chance CampgroundTongass National Forest · 1.8 mi · 35 of 36 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 15:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| S'igeidí Aas Hídi | cabin nonelectric | yes | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Signal Creek CampgroundTongass National Forest · 0.0 miThree C's Group Use CampgroundTongass National Forest · 0.3 mi
Last Chance CampgroundTongass National Forest · 1.8 miLast Chance CampgroundTongass National Forest · 5.6 miIcehouse Cove Buoy Camping AreaTongass National Forest · 12 mi
Southeast Heckman CabinTongass National Forest · 13 miFrom the State ferry terminal, take Tongass Highway north 4.8 miles to milepost 7. Turn right onto Revilla Road. Go 1.4 miles and turn right at the Ward Lake Road Intersection. Travel 1.1 miles past Ward Lake Day Use Area to the entrance sign for Signal Creek Campground. Cabin is located on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ketchikan, AK
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 32°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
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyNicholas J. Begich IIIU.S. Representative · Alaska, at-large
- Your senator, on the same appropriationDan SullivanU.S. Senator · Alaska
- Your senator, on the same appropriationLisa MurkowskiU.S. Senator · Alaska
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin, Tongass National Forest, Alaska
Dear Nicholas J. Begich III, I’m a constituent in Alaska, at-large. I tried to camp at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin (Tongass National Forest, Alaska) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin, Tongass National Forest, Alaska
Dear Dan Sullivan, I’m a constituent in Alaska. I tried to camp at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin (Tongass National Forest, Alaska) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin, Tongass National Forest, Alaska
Dear Lisa Murkowski, I’m a constituent in Alaska. I tried to camp at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about S'igeidí Aas Hídi Cabin (Tongass National Forest, Alaska) via campanac.com