1982 Dry Cabin on 5 Private Acres Near Kenny Creek, Trapper Creek — $132,500

Moose walk up to the porch here. Bears too. That is not a selling point someone made up. It is just what happens when you put a cabin on 5 acres in this part of Alaska.

The cabin is 720 square feet, built in 1982, one bedroom, no bathroom in the conventional sense. It is a dry cabin, meaning no running water. If you know what that means, you already know if this is for you. If you are still figuring out what that means, it probably is not.

What it does have is a wood stove, which is the thing keeping you warm after you come in from wherever you have been. Everything inside stays with the sale. Furniture, beds, cookware, dishes, utensils. You show up with your bag and you are in. Starlink internet is set up and running, which matters more than it sounds in a place this remote. Ring cameras are on the property too.

Kenny Creek is nearby and it holds trout and grayling. Snowmachine trails run through the area. The surrounding land is public access backcountry. Moose hunting is part of why people come to this part of Trapper Creek.

At 720 square feet with one bedroom and no bath, this is clearly a camp. A well-equipped one, but a camp. The price reflects that. $132,500 for 5 acres in Alaska with a furnished structure, satellite internet, and a wood stove is a reasonable entry point if you want a foothold in the state and you know how to operate in a dry cabin situation.

The listing is thin on some details. Age of the roof, condition of the stove, what the water situation actually looks like day to day. Those are questions worth asking before you go any further. But the bones of the pitch are straightforward. Private acreage, working cabin, furnished and connected, wildlife on the doorstep. For someone who wanted exactly this, it would be hard to build it from scratch for the same money.