Bowman's Bear Creek Lodge

Bowman's Bear Creek Lodge Review

Of the five cabins, four are around a pond and one is down by the creek. Each has a woodstove and an electric heater. Interior walls are chinked logs, beds have colorful quilts, and the lighting fixtures are modeled after gold rush-era styles. The cabins vary in size, but the largest sleeps up to six. A central bathhouse has hot showers and toilets. The excellent dinner house ($$$) offers fine dining, with nightly specials, local seafood, and smoked-salmon chowder (the house specialty) every day. The food is reason enough to make the 16-mi side trip to Hope from the Seward Highway. Bowman's runs guided fishing and rafting trips: all-inclusive packages with rooms, meals, and guided excursions to Whittier, Seward, or Cooper Landing.