State parks officials say the caretaker’s cabin at Chilkat State Park will be available for use as a nightly rental in the coming weeks. Joe Parnell’s donation of firewood and labor and Debra Schnabel’s loan of a log-splitter made this possible.
This arrangement is the most recent effort to establish public-use cabins in Haines similar to nearly 450 such cabins on state and federal lands across Alaska. The Forest Service announced in September it will…