The riverfront log lodge, deck and log railings under a blue Alaska sky

On the Ninilchik River

The Lodge.

A riverfront lodge that feels like the family cabin you wish you had, flannel sheets, a hot tub for after the boat, and a great room where the coffee's always on.

Where you'll stay

Sleeps eight. Four cozy rooms, two to a room.

Knotty pine, flannel sheets, a mint on the pillow, and big windows to the green. Beds are made with care, and there's a riverview hot tub for the long Alaska evenings.

Bring your group and take the whole place, or join a week with room to spare.

A cozy knotty-pine bedroom at the lodge

All meals, all week

You won't lift a finger.

A breakfast bar each morning (Naomi, our retired-teacher-turned-cook, is always first one up), a box lunch for the boat, and dinner most nights around a shared table, often outside on the deck. We process and box your catch, up to 50 pounds, so the fish beats you home. And a little scripture tucked in your lunch box and a card on your birthday, whether you asked for one or not, that's the Fishcamp way.

From the kitchen to the table

Cooking in the lodge kitchen, plates and coffee goingServing up a hot dinner from the tray lineLaughing together in the kitchen after the meal
Somebody's cooking, the plates come out, and the table's loud before you sit down.

How it came to be

Building the camp.

A cabin on the river, then a family that kept coming back to it. Post by post, wall by wall, the place grew up the way most good things do, one season at a time.

From the first cabin to today

The original cabin on the gravel road, early days of the campClearing the site, the ground broken and readyThe first framing going up against the tree lineHands on the frame, walls rising board by boardThe building envelope taking shapeSiding going on in the golden evening lightThe lodge nearing completionThe Knepper’s sign standing at the camp today
The river kept us company the whole way through.

New on the property

Colonel's Outpost.

Named for the Colonel and built by hand, the Outpost is the newest gathering place on the property, part gear room, part gathering house, where a day on the water begins and ends.

Step inside Colonel's Outpost →

Colonel's Outpost by day, golden log siding under a deep gable roof

Come see it for yourself.

Getting here is easier than it looks, fly into Anchorage and we'll handle the last leg.

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