Our lodge is located in the Talkeetna Mountains. These mountains were formed by seismic and volcanic activity and cut into dramatic peaks and valleys by glaciers. This part of Alaska is a vast and beautiful place! The Lodge is located in what is known in the tourism industry as "The Denali Region". We are approximately 150 miles from open ocean to the south and almost 300 miles from the arctic circle to the north.

It is made up of some of the world's largest boreal forests, some taiga forest, and three different types of tundra.  The lodge is surrounded by moist alpine tundra which means that we have little to no permafrost. The ground thaws in the spring & summer months and makes a home for all types of flowers, lichens, mosses and berry bushes. This makes for a beautiful patchwork quilt of vegetation that blankets the tundra.

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At Caribou Lodge Alaska, we are surrounded by two mountain ranges; The world famous Alaska mountain range to our west where you will find 20,310 ft. tall Mt. Denali. And to our east is the beautiful but unknown Talkeetna mountains where many times you might feel like you are on the movie set of The Lord Of The Rings.

The lakes in this region are pretty well frozen over from November through May, so jumping off the dock for a swim in the months of June through September can be a very exhilarating experience.

In the winter our family enjoys the off-season by cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, and snowshoeing.  Being above tree line also means that the views of the northern lights in the fall and winter months are completely unobstructed.