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Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge

3.0 star property

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Exterior
Lobby sitting area
Terrace/patio
Deluxe Room | Desk, blackout drapes, iron/ironing board, bed sheets
Property amenity

Reviews

8.2 out of 10

Very good

Popular amenities

  • 24/7 front desk
  • Bar
  • Breakfast available
  • Laundry
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi

Explore the area

Map
133 Parks Hwy, Trapper Creek, AK, 99683
  • Denali State Park
    10 min walk
  • Coffee Bruin Espresso
    1 min walk
  • Talkeetna Station
    63 min drive
  • Talkeetna, AK (TKA)
    67 min drive

Room options

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Deluxe Room | Desk, blackout drapes, iron/ironing board, bed sheets

Deluxe Room

  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Queen Beds

About this property

Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge

3-star Trapper Creek lodge walkable to Denali State Park
2 restaurants, a bar/lounge, and a coffee shop/cafe are available at this smoke-free lodge. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk, and tour/ticket assistance. Housekeeping is available on request.
Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge offers 460 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. 40-inch flat-screen televisions come with cable channels.

Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations. Business-friendly amenities include desks, desk chairs, and phones. Additionally, rooms include ceiling fans and blackout drapes/curtains. Housekeeping is offered on request and irons/ironing boards can be requested.

Dining is available at one of the lodge's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Trapper Creek lodge also offers a terrace, gift shops/newsstands, and tour/ticket assistance. Complimentary uncovered self parking is available on site.

Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge is a smoke-free property.

Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
20,320 Alaskan Grill - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Base Camp Bar - Onsite bar. Open daily.
North Fork Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast and dinner. Open daily.
Coffee Bruin - Onsite coffee shop. Open daily.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free uncovered self parking on site
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Food and drink

  • Daily cooked-to-order breakfast available 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee: USD 15 to 30 per person
  • 2 restaurants
  • A bar/lounge
  • A coffee shop/cafe

Restaurants on site

  • 20,320 Alaskan Grill
  • Base Camp Bar
  • Coffee Bruin
  • North Fork Restaurant

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Gift shop/newsstand
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (on request)
  • Tour and ticket assistance

Outdoors

  • Firepit
  • In a state park
  • In the mountains
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Picnic area
  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • 5 accessible parking spaces
  • Accessible shuttle
  • Assistive listening devices
  • Front entrance ramp
  • Lever door handles
  • No elevator
  • Visual fire alarm
  • Well-lit path to entrance
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible concierge desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
  • Wheelchair-accessible public washroom
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible restaurant

More

  • 2 floors
  • Fireplace in lobby
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided
  • Blackout drapes

Bathroom

  • Hair dryer
  • Shampoo
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 40-inch flat-screen TV with cable channels

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker

More

  • Ceiling fan
  • Connecting rooms available
  • Desk
  • Desk chair
  • Heating (climate-controlled)
  • Iron/ironing board on request
  • Phone
  • Portable fan
  • Window screens

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 20.0 per night

Property payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: approximately USD 15 to 30 per person
  • Rollaway bed fee: USD 20.0 per night

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation

Property is also known as

MT. Mckinley Princess Lodge Trapper Creek
MT. Mckinley Princess Trapper Creek
MT Mckinley Princess Trapper
MT. Mckinley Princess Lodge
MT. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge Lodge
MT. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge Trapper Creek
MT. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge Lodge Trapper Creek

Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge Reviews

Reviews

8.2

Very Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 267 out of 524 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 126 out of 524 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 58 out of 524 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 36 out of 524 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 37 out of 524 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

8.2/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Marian, CONWAY

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very pretty setting and nice lodge restaurant and viewing area for Mt. Denali. Was not told there wasn't an elevator for our room and my husband is not able to carry luggage. It was very difficult to get the bags up the stairs.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Barbara, Sioux Falls

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

8/10 Good

Mary Frances

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

jose

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Mr william

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great staff warm welcome- went beyond to help make our stay A room was wonderful close to everything.. Ground floor no stairs which was great...
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Joanne

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property is beautiful and fits completely into the Alaskan environment. Our room was lovely especially for the good price.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Frédéric

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

6/10 Okay

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Disappointed
The compound is lovely spread across the hillside. We had dinner and breakfast on location and the service was poor at best. This property is clearly a cruise ship stopover. We were a private booking. Waiting on a bus for transportation is a hassle, we learned to rent a vehicle in AK next trip. The views help make things better but service needs to improve in the large restaurant.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

4/10 Poor

Susan

Traveled with family
Setup for your buses not individuals
Room was a typical hotel room clean. The issue was the setup of the whole place it was scattered everywhere and parking was atrocious. Minimal parking half in the mud if you could find a spot. Then you had to walk a long ways to get to your building and room. Seemed to be setup for tour buses not individuals. Not recommended
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Marlene

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice resort with many things to do - hiking trails, a couple onsite restaurant choices - nightly fire pit with s’mores and cocktails. This resort is huge! And we wish we had booked more than one night here. We’d stay here again in a heartbeat! The bed is sooo comfy, best night sleep of our trip
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

8/10 Good

Kathleen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Parking difficult. Beautiful property and great staff in the restaurants.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Bosko, Zagreb

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Steven

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

8/10 Good

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Noisy early in the am
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lynn, Crockett

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wish we could stayed longer. Beautiful setting, courteous staff, clean facility and a relaxing atmosphere!!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Dianne

Liked: Amenities
The staff was helpful. Please make entries more accessible.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

8/10 Good

Susan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Property was a little outdated but still nice. This Mississippi girl needs her AC year round and there isn’t any. Luckily we could open a window for cool air. Stayed one night to break up our trip from Fairbanks to Anchorage. Don’t get this lodge confused with the one near Denali like I did.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

2/10 Terrible

Ayse, Knoxville

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This place is a huge resort and for us walking to a room uphill was not the best. If you are looking for a resort with resort amenities, and the prices to match, you will love this place. We thought that with the word, Denali in the description, we would be right next to the park and this is not accurate at all. My room price per night was 159 so I thought that was a good bargain. Front desk staff were very friendly.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

Ramasubramanian

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Curtis

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great stay!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Angela, Missoula

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
In the Denali! View was spectacular! Exactly what you would expect. Did not realize we were so far from park entrance, but overall the grounds are amazing. Food was very underwhelming but we just needed a place to sleep and this was just fine.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jennie

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I wish I could comment more on the grounds of the resort which looked amazing, or all of the near trails or activities available, which certainly deserves another full post. What I’d like to share is how incredible the McKinley Princess staff are. Shortly after I arrived at the Mt McKinley Wilderness resort, my infant spiked a high fever. The front desk immediately sent over staff with medical training who then drove us two hours to the hospital in Wasilla, and waited until we were done, and then drove us back. We were asked to stay in our room to prevent passing on my child’s illness to other guests, and the staff brought meals, put together care packages, and called regularly to check on us. The next night, my child required an ambulance ride back to the hospital. The McKinley staff were AMAZING. I had three folks come to wait with me while the ambulance arrived, who made sure I had essentials packed in a bag and also had water and granola bars for what would end up being a long hospital stay. They checked on me and even had someone drive over two hours to wait for me in case we were discharged after being seen. I can’t tell you all of the sweet, thoughtful things these folks did, there is not enough space but they truly went above and beyond in one of the scariest times of my life. Thank you Rich, Carissa, Colleen, Jessica, Brian, and so many others for being wonderful humans. I am so grateful for you.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Abhinaba

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tina

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful property. Very comfortable.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024