Multi-purpose facility Indoor presentation theater Bed & Breakfast apartments Vern & Susan's Log Home Greenhouse and garden Iditarod checkpoint cabin Pup palace and nature trails

Our place is set back in the wilderness facing the beautiful Talkeetna Mountains and Hatcher Pass.  The trails and wilderness are right behind us and are the reason we located here.  You can go for a ten, twenty or forty-five mile run right out of our place.  In the Winter the snowy trails cross frozen lakes, streams and wetlands which are interspersed with mixed birch and spruce forests.  In the Summer, these same trails and forests become alive with lush greenery, flowers and wildlife.  It is hard to describe the beauty and peacefulness.  This is what makes our Summer Combination Program and Winter Tour Program so much fun for you!

Our Multi-Purpose Facility was built in 1998 and is all modern and ultra efficient. 
We named this building the “Lee Larsen Training Center”. Lee was our mentor and part of the sponsorship team from Norwest and Wells Fargo Bank.  Lee is now President of the Board of Directors of the Iditarod Trail Sleddog Race Organization.  This building includes the upstairs Bed and Breakfast apartments with the recreation area and the downstairs theater, vet clinic, dressing room and utility-laundry room.

 
Multi-Purpose Facility

 

                     
Indoor Presentation Theater

Dream Inn Bed & Breakfast Apartments

The second floor of the center has two six hundred square foot apartments. Each has a spacious bedroom, private bath, kitchenette and living room. The apartments open up into another six hundred square foot room we use for classes, recreation and race preparations.

Vern & Susan's Log Home
Not far from the kennel building sits our new log home. It is Alaskan spruce, hand peeled and built with the Swedish notch style. It sits looking south opening up to Nancy Creek running just below. The second floor is high up and from the deck where you are at tree top level.
 

Greenhouse & Garden
The greenhouse and garden are located east out of the kitchen door and patio. Both Susan and I enjoy gardening and Alaska can be very fruitful with its long summer days. 

 

The Iditarod Checkpoint Cabin

The William J. Halter, Sr. Memorial Cabin
Built with Alaska white spruce-three sided eight inch logs provided by Poppert Mills, Wasilla, Alaska.  Hand crafted by Bob Jenks a lifelong Alaskan and Su Valley resident. Designed as a checkpoint replica and homestead cabin, it represents a place for race judges, checkers, veterinarians and media to monitor the Iditarod Sleddog race.  In the summers it will be stocked with food drops, heet and straw much like any checkpoint has to sustain the all important husky and musher on their epic journey to Nome.  Named after Vern's father, an avid fan of the Iditarod and Dream a Dream Dog Farm.  He loved Alaska and the rural/wilderness solitude it brought to one. 

Pup Palace and Nature Trails
Dog Lot
The dog lot is set in double rows with a twenty foot chute followed by a double row of dog houses then another chute. This makes hooking and unhooking teams easier and allows teams to come and go from different chutes.

We generally divide or segregate dogs by age so the older more seasoned and better dogs have their area and younger do too. The dog lot was designed to have a slope down the length of dog houses and a little to the left. This two way slope was covered with 16 to 18 inches of gravel so drainage is excellent and the dogs environment is healthy. We may add top surface gravel as needed. Every dog has its own house and they love their spot! They love to lounge on the top of their house or hide in the shade alongside on summer days.