Within The Wild Adventure Company is a family-owned and operated adventure travel business in Alaska offering two remote full service fly-in lodges within Southcentral Alaska. We offer float trips (with both emphasis on sportfishing as well as natural history touring), helicopter hiking, backcountry hiking trips, dog sled tours, cross-country skiing, and other outdoor adventures.
Within The Wild Adventure Company is a partnership, in existence since 1983, between Carl and Kirsten Dixon and their daughters Carly and Amanda Dixon. Carl and Kirsten travel between their lodges in the summertime and spend time at Winterlake Lodge during the winter months. They are both dedicated and committed to the philosophy that Within the Wild guests are really all guests in “our home”. We desire hospitality to be extended to our guests as if each one was an invited special friend joining us for a pleasant visit.
We pride ourselves on being a small owner-operated business that emphasizes personal attention and a high level of achievement amongst our employees. Every member of our team becomes a visible and integral part of our fabric. We are an extremely hard-working group, demanding much from our environment and ourselves. We strive for personal excellence daily, in the work we do and we hope that this is reflected in a visit to one of our lodges.
Remote lodging in Alaska has had a long and colorful history and we are proud to be a part of its present and future. During pre-airplane days, there was a “roadhouse” situated every twenty miles or so along trails routes for the delivery of mail by dog teams. Some roadhouses were no more than squalid shacks. Others were well managed and had reputations for fine meals and clean accommodations. Both of our Within the Wild backcountry lodges are in geographic areas of the state that have a colorful history and a story to tell.
Our philosophy towards the environment is such that we feel that we want to preserve the integrity of Alaska ’s wilderness. We promote minimal-impact use. All of our trips conducted on State or Federal lands are done so with proper permitting and responsible outdoor ethics.
