1880s Cannery Superintendent's Cabin on Behm Canal, Alaska — $140,000

The cabin on this property has a name. Heckman House. It dates to the early days of Loring and was reportedly the residence of the superintendent of the salmon cannery established there in the 1880s. That history is documented. For a 1,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, one-bath cabin built in 1950 on 1.06 acres in remote Southeast Alaska, that context matters.

Getting here means a boat or a floatplane. There is no road. No public water, sewer, or electrical service either. The property is fully off grid, and the agent description is straightforward about what you are walking into: considerable deferred maintenance, substantial work required before anyone lives here regularly. So the price reflects a project, not a move-in situation.

What you get for that is real. The 1.06 acres sit on the West Arm of Behm Canal, roughly 20 miles from Clover Passage. The State of Alaska public dock is close by, and the second lot included in the sale, Lot 4, comes with a storage shed near that dock. For getting supplies in and gear out, that proximity is useful in a way that is hard to overstate when you are this far from town.

The Naha River is five minutes by skiff. It has a reputation for steelhead fishing that draws people from a long way off. The rest of Behm Canal adds to that. If fishing is why you want remote Alaska property, this location delivers on that specifically.

Ketchikan is roughly 20 miles away by water. Loring itself is a small historic community. The cabin carries the oldest layer of that history, and it is still standing.

This is the kind of property where the work and the isolation are the whole point for the right person. If you want something that is already finished and easy to reach, this is the wrong listing. If you want to spend time restoring a 140-year-old piece of Alaska's commercial fishing past on a waterway with serious salmon and steelhead, $140,000 puts you in the conversation.