White Mountains National Recreation Area - Alaska Cabins
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:44 UTC
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located just an hour's drive from Fairbanks, Alaska, the one-million-acre White Mountains National Recreation Area offers stunning scenery, peaceful solitude and outstanding opportunities for year-round recreation including hiking, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, skiing, wildlife and scenic viewing. There are 13 beautiful log cabins throughout the White Mountains offering many opportunities to enjoy the outdoors. Be sure to carry your cabin permit at all times while in the White Mountains National Recreation Area. Also located in the White Mountains National Recreation Area are two trail shelters that are available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Keep reading
Recreation
Winter visitors travel by ski, snowshoe, dog team, fat bike and snowmobile to enjoy the 12 public-use cabins and 250 miles of maintained trails that make the White Mountains one of Interior Alaska's premier winter destinations. The cabins must be reserved up to 30 days in advance. There are two trail shelters that are on a first come-first served basis, are free of charge and not reservable. In Summer, visitors to the White Mountains pan for gold, fish, hike and camp under Alaska's midnight sun. The Nome Creek Road provides access to two campgrounds, trails, a gold-panning area and a departure point for float trips on Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River. Learn more about current trail conditions or call the Fairbanks District Office at (907) 474-2200. For a winter trails condition report, go to the Trail Update Facilities The White Mountains National Recreation Area offers 250 miles of maintained winter trails and 13 public recreation cabins and two trail shelters surrounded by jagged limestone mountains and cliffs, high mountain passes, and broad, rounded valleys. Whether you choose to explore by ski, snowshoe, snowmobile, or dog team, you'll find crisp, clean air, dazzling views, and if you're lucky, shimmering northern lights against a star-studded sky. Many of the trails used for winter travel may be difficult to travel during the summer due to wet, muddy conditions or difficult water crossings. To protect sensitive resources, vehicles must remain on BLM routes designated for their use unless traveling in an area designated open to cross-country motorized travel. The entire area is open to all forms of non-motorized use, so feel free to explore off-trail. The most popular places to ride OHVs are in the Nome Creek tailings and the Quartz Creek Trail. Most of the cabins become difficult to reach in the summer, but a few are regularly used such as Fred Blixt Cabin and Lee’s Cabin . Three campgrounds are open from late-May until the snow flies in October Note : Not all trails are accessible to ATV's in the summer. Please contact the BLM Fairbanks District Office for further information at (907)474-2200 Note: Not all trails are suitable for hiking in the summer. They may be wet and boggy. Check with the Fairbanks District Office for more information. Note: All lands to the north of the Nome Creek Rd. from the Bear Creek Trail, west to Ophir Creek Campground and the Beaver Creek Put-In are closed to the use of motorized vehicles in the summer from May 1 - October 14 or until there is adequate snow cover for use by snowmobiles. Nome Creek Valley Map Winter Trails Map Summer OHV fact sheet Summer Recreation Map (Georeferenced PDF)
Nearby Attractions
The cabins are surrounded by vast amounts of land you can venture on to and view the scenery around the area.
What the agency tells you
The cabins must be reserved prior to use.
You must have your permit with you during your stay. Print your email confirmation as proof of reservation or have it accessible on your smart phone.
Dog owners are responsible for cleaning up after their dogs, including straw.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Pack out what you bring in.
Please leave dry firewood inside cabin for the next user.
Discharging of firearms is prohibited within 1/4 mile of the cabin and across trails.
Please close the cabin windows, shutters, outhouse doors, and cabin when leaving.
The BLM strives to maintain cabin tools and equipment in good working order, but visitors should be prepared to be self-sufficient. Cabin Amenities: Bunks, table/benches, cooking area, storage loft, woodstove for heating, ax, bowsaw, propane cookstove, outhouse, broom/dust pan, shovel and rake, smoke detector and a fire extinguisher (Visitors are responsible for their own travel arrangements and safety, and must bring their own required amenities not included at the cabin).
The cabin does not have electricity, or running water. Visitors must bring their own food, water or water treatment system, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, matches, utensils, toilet paper, first aid kit, 2 AA batteries for the smoke detector, 1-pound propane bottles for the cook stove, and garbage bags.
Standing dead wood may be available nearby for cutting firewood. It is advised to bring your own firewood to assure you have some when you arrive. Please report missing or broken items to BLM.
Reservations: The cabin must be reserved in advance and paid for when you make your reservation. Stays are limited to three consecutive nights per cabin. Reservations cost $42 per night plus a rec.gov fee of $8 and may be made up to 45 days in advance. Reservations are from noon to noon. Weekends and holidays are times of peak use. A computer terminal will be available at the Fairbanks District Office for those individuals lacking computer access to make reservations online.
Please visit the BLM's White Mountain National Recreation Area website for a larger map suitable for online viewing or printing.
https://www.blm.gov/visit/white-mountains/ Scroll to the bottom of the page for Trail Conditions updates.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15 · 15 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Snowmobile Trails
- Wildlife viewing
- Winter sports
22 of 26 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:44 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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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 16:44 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · the site map
All 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Borealis-LeFevre | Borealis-LeFevre | cabin nonelectric | 893 ft | $42 |
| Cache Mountain | Cache Mountain | cabin nonelectric | 354 ft | $42 |
| Caribou Bluff | Caribou Bluff | cabin nonelectric | 502 ft | $42 |
| Colorado Creek | Colorado Creek | cabin nonelectric | under 10 ft | $42 |
| Crowberry | Crowberry | cabin nonelectric | 3,233 ft | $42 |
| Eleazars | Eleazars | cabin nonelectric | 2,294 ft | $42 |
| Fred Blixt | Fred Blixt | cabin nonelectric | 17 ft | $42 |
| Lee's | Lee's | cabin nonelectric | 1,121 ft | $42 |
| Moose Creek | Moose Creek | cabin nonelectric | 1,100 ft | $42 |
| Richard's | Richard's | cabin nonelectric | 11 ftBear Creek | $42 |
| Summit Trail Shelter | Summit Trail Shelter | cabin nonelectric | 2,229 ft | $42 |
| Wickersham Trail Shelter | Wickersham Trail Shelter | cabin nonelectric | 492 ft | $42 |
| Windy Gap | Windy Gap | cabin nonelectric | 205 ft | $42 |
| Wolf Run | Wolf Run | cabin nonelectric | 937 ft | $42 |
| Yeager's | Yeager's | cabin nonelectric | $42 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Ophir Creek CampgroundEastern Interior Field Office · 6.1 mi
Mount Prindle CampgroundEastern Interior Field Office · 19 mi
Cripple Creek CampgroundEastern Interior Field Office · 20 miFive Mile CampgroundCentral Yukon Field Office · 81 miTraveling north from Fairbanks, take the Steese Highway on through Fox. There is a trailhead at Milepost 42 and 57 of the Steese Highway to access some of the cabins. Traveling north on the Elliott Highway from Fox, there are two trailheads at Milepost 28 and 57 of the Elliott Highway to access the White Mountains from the west side. For further information contact BLM district office.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Livengood, AK
Typical weather
Typical October night 15°F, day 34°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -11°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
White Mountains National Recreation Area - Alaska 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 →