On Sanctuary River at Mile 22.7 S of Park Rd., Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska. County/parish: Yukon-Koyukuk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 25, 1986. NRIS 86003206.
3 contributing buildings. 1 contributing object.
The Sanctuary River Cabin No. 31, also known as Sanctuary Patrol Cabin, is a log cabin that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing includes an outhouse and a tool box and storage shed.
It was built by the Alaska Road Commission in 1926 as the center of a road construction camp, and was adopted by park rangers in wintertime dog sled patrols as a replacement for a different cabin located about five miles south.
This was the cabin where Adolph Murie "began his field work investigating the wolf-Dall sheep relationship in the park...in the summer of 1939."
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75325233