You’ve seen them before – lining picturesque canyons like Santa Anita and Icehouse. If you’re like me, you’ve probably even fantasized about owning one – but unless you know someone who owns one, you’ve probably never been inside one.
Thankfully, a YouTube user by the name of PackerGreg decided to post this short video of the interior of Cabin 62 in Santa Anita Canyon.
Looks pretty cozy in there, right?
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I can totally see a horror movie being filmed there.
how do people come to own them? anyone know of a way to rent one?
I want one!!!
For the most part the cabins were grandfathered in — they existed before that land became owned by the US Government. I believe in most cases they currently ‘rent’ the land from the US Government for some silly price of like $5 a year or something.
They do occasionally go up for sale if you keep your eye out and your ears to the ground. A place like Adam’s Pack Station would certainly know if any of the cabins it serves are possibly going up for sale. (Although I think the government might have first dibs? I really don’t remember…)
And someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe it’s illegal for them to rent them out.
I looked into this stuff a couple years ago, hence all the ‘I thinks’ and ‘correct me if I’m wrongs’ — but that’s what I seem to remember.
I grew up in Sierra Madre, and have hiked passed the cabins NUMEROUS times….
I have never once seen a cabin occupied! which if you stop and think about REALLY sucks!!! I dont know at this time if it IS illegal to rent them out… It wouldn’t surprise me if it is. There is a lot of history in the foothills of the San Gabriels!
I for one would like to see these cabins and places like it preserved as well as made avail. for rent on a limited basis, if the owner choose to do so.
I was hiking by the USFS cabins with my girlfriend and we ran into a man who was sweeping the steps of one. We chatted with him a bit and asked about how one comes to own such a cabin and whether they are rented. He did share that sometimes they go for sale (though rarely) and that each person can rent his/her cabin if they like. However, he was extremely rude and not a pleasant person to speak with. He basically was angry that people mistreat his property (going to the bathroom on it) and that “city people” that come down from the “pavement up there” have no business in the forest. While I feel for him having to clean up people’s mess, the idea that he somehow is more entitled to the forest than those of us that live in the city is ridiculous. I suggested that in the future he might not want to buy a cabin on a major forest trail if he wanted something without “city people” around.
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