THINGS TO DO · GREAT OUTDOORS
CAMPING & CABINS
CLOSEST CAMPING
ONE MILE
City Park, from the ferry terminal
RV SITES
FOREST SERVICE CABINS
BOOKING
receration.gov for cabins
16
Shoemaker Bay, hookups for a fee
23
In the Wrangell area
A TENT A MILE FROM THE FERRY, OR A CABIN YOU CNA ONLY REACH BY FLOATPLANE.
Wrangell covers most of the range. There is tent camping inside town, an RV area five miles out with hookups and a dump station, Forest Service sites scattered down the road system, and 23 rustic cabins out in the country around the island.
What you need depends mostly on whether you brought a vehicle, and whether you are willing to charter a boat or a plane to get where you are sleeping.
CAMPING
City Park, 1 mile from the ferry · Shoemaker Bay, 5 miles out · 16 RV sites, hookups for a fee
FIVE MILES OUT THE ROAD
SHOEMAKER BAY
Free tent areas plus 16 RV sites, with or without hookups for a fee. Dump station, water spigot, and restrooms at the marina parking lot
ONE MILE FROM THE FERRY
CITY PARK
Tent camping close to town, convenient if you have to come in on the ferry
DOWN THE ROAD SYSTEM
FOREST SERVICE SITES
Campsites scattered across Wrangell Island. You will want to your own vehicle for these.
THE CABINS
23 cabins · Stove, bunks, table, outhouse · Most reached by boat or floatplane · Book at recreation.gov
There are 23 rustic Forest Service cabins in the Wrangell area. Each has a heating stove, plywood bunks, a table, benches and an outhouse. That is the whole list, and it is the point.
Rustic here means what it says. Bring everything else.
Most are reachable only by boat or floatplane. Rent a canoe or kayak, book a jetboat charter, or fly — local operators run all three. Berg Bay Cabin, for example, sits about 15 miles southeast of town.
Reservations go through recreation.gov.
THE INTERACTIVE MAP
In 2023 Travel Wrangell worked with Wander Maps, a 3D mobile mapping developer, on a downloadable interactive map of Wrangell. It covers every cabin and trail in the USFS Wrangell Ranger District.
BEFORE YOU BOOK
Cabins go through recreation.gov, not through the City or the Visitor Center.
Work out your ride before you book the cabin. Most need a boat or a floatplane, and the charter is the part that fills up.
Bring bedding, cooking gear, water and fuel. A stove and a bunk frame is genuinely all that is there.
This is bear country.
Pick up a map at the Nolan Center Visitor Center or the Forest Service office.
The cabin will be exactly as advertised. That is the good news and the warning.
NEAR BY ATTRACTIONS
THE STIKINE
HIKING
RESPECTFUL TRAVEL
PLAN THE TRIP
How to get here, where to stay, and who to go out with.