Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Alaska Cabins Project aims to make traveling to Alaska's wilderness easier and more inclusive. Photograph by Amber Johnson, ...

When hiking alone in Alaska, I’d been told, make noise. The last thing you want to do is to surprise a bear. And so I was doing my best to fill the woods with song, belting out Broadway tunes as I ...

The Alaska Cabins Project aims to make traveling to Alaska's wilderness easier and more inclusive. Photograph by Amber Johnson, Alamy Overnighting in Alaska’s wilderness is about to get easier. The ...

Summer is barreling toward Alaska, and so is the enticing promise of weekends spent enjoying the state’s plentiful wilderness. But perhaps the realization of summer’s approach brings forth an ...

Porcupine Cabin in Hope is one of 25 cabins to be built as part of the Alaska Cabins Project. (Hunter Morrison/KDLL) Nestled in the forest just beyond the Porcupine Campground on the west end of the ...

A new project in the Chugach and Tongass National Forests will make overnights in Alaska’s wilderness less intimidating for travelers looking for “soft” adventures in the wild. The Alaska Cabins ...

What makes a cabin a cabin? There is one indisputable fact about cabins — there are a lot of them in Alaska. Once the discussion moves beyond that, though, things start to get a bit blurry, although ...

Sure, January has only just begun, but it’s time to start talking about summer plans. If those plans involve staying in a public-use cabin in Alaska, now might be the time to reserve it. Cabin ...