New public use cabins were built in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park this summer by locally hired carpenters.
Some cabins are along park trails, while many others are adjacent to airstrips.
Currently use of the 12 park cabins is free and no reservations are taken. Logs for new cabins are from the Copper Valley and milled by a local business. These have included visitor centers, water, sewer and other utility improvements, historic building restorations, and employee housing in remote areas. In 1999, projects included site work for a new Wrangell-St. Elias visitor center at Copper Center, dock and fuel farm improvements at Glacier Bay, and the completion of the last of 15 historic building restorations in Skagway at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.