Sanctuary River Cabin No. 31

Sanctuary River Cabin No. 31
Location On Sanctuary River at Mile 22.7 S of Park Rd., Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska
Coordinates 63°43′21″N 149°28′15″W / 63.72250°N 149.47083°W / 63.72250; -149.47083Coordinates: 63°43′21″N 149°28′15″W / 63.72250°N 149.47083°W / 63.72250; -149.47083
Area less than one acre
Built by Alaska Road Commission; National Park Service
Architectural style Log cabin, Other
MPS Patrol Cabins, Mount McKinley National Park TR
NRHP Reference # 86003206[1]
Added to NRHP November 25, 1986

The Sanctuary River Cabin No. 31, located on the Sanctuary River at Mile 22.7 S of Park Rd. in Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska is a log cabin that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was listed in 1986. The listing included three contributing buildings and one other contributing object.[1]

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."[2]

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