With its enormous chalet windows, spacious decks and outdoor fireplace, this maple- and birch-framed boathouse in the Denali National Park & Preserve affords sweeping views of Otto Lake and its surrounding forests, tundra, glaciers, and snow-capped mountains.

Part of a development spanning fifty acres, the building also serves as a staging area for tour departures. Beneath a soaring ceiling, its grand interior seats two hundred for indoor presentations and educational programming. The boathouse features 41,000 board feet of prefabricated Douglas Fir—sanded, finished, and shipped by barge from our shop to the Alaskan site.