An old mining claim shack, insulated and outfitted in 2018. One room, one bed, one stove. The cheapest property in the directory. Half the people who stay here rebook within a year.
Look. It's a shed. It's 180 square feet. It has one window facing east, a door facing south, and a second smaller window we cut in 2018 on the west wall so you can watch the sun go down without opening the door. There's a full-size bed, a two-person table, a propane two-burner, and a stove (a little Morsø, same as Crowsnest) that will cook you out of the place if you overfire it. There's a small stack of books. Most of them are paperbacks from the 1970s.
People come here to not be reached. That's what it's for. If that sounds bleak, go to Moose Pond instead — it's great. If it sounds exactly right, welcome.
Built sometime between 1908 and 1914 as a bunkhouse for a small silver claim that never paid out. The claim was abandoned in the 1920s; the shed was used by elk hunters, then nobody, then the current owner's grandfather who bought the parcel for back taxes in 1961. He kept a typewriter in it for forty years. The typewriter is still there. It works. There's a ream of paper under it and a small sign that says "use this if you want." Some guests do.
$85/night, one-night stays allowed (rare in our directory), $40 turnover. Weekday solo trips are the move.
Often available on short notice. If you need to disappear for 48 hours, this is usually the answer.