Horse Pack Trips

Pioneer Outfitters

Summer Horse Pack Trips

Fall Photo Safaris

Spiritual Retreat

Pioneer Outfiters offers a wide range of outings, pack trips, Spiritual Retreats and rafting excursions for you to choose from.  We use horses on all of our summer and fall excursions. There is something for everyone to enjoy and experience in Chisana and this great National Park, the Wrangel St. Elias National Park and Preserve. With each guest, each group of people that come into our lives, we have another opportunity to share this beautiful place, all the interesting history, magical spots and the blessings of the life we were given to share. 

 Day rides, overnight pack trips, photography excursions for Dall sheep, Mountain Grizzly and Black Bears, Alaska-Yukon Moose, Mountain Caribou, Timber Wolf, fox, wolverine, lynx, coyote and all kinds of small critters ‘n such!  Gold panning the old placer claims, glacier walks, mountain climbs or just jump on your horse and ride around in circles if you wish.  Go fishing for Lake Trout, Arctic Grayling and Ling Cod.  You get rained on, snowed on, mosquito bit, saddle-sore, sunburned and maybe even bucked off old Twister.  What the heck, that’s just part of what goes with the territory.  Now, all joking aside we really have some good stock, something for everyone.  For those mellow people we have mellow horses, for those spirited people we have spirited horses and for those people who would rather not ride horses we have horses that would rather not be ridden.  At the end of the day you’ll sit down to mouth-watering meals.  Ranch style home cooked meals at the lodge or sitting at your camp fire, there’s no freeze dried food served here.  We invite you to the unspoiled, accessible only by air, wilderness experience you will never forget.  Comfortable cabins nestled in the Chisana Valley of the Wrangell Mountains...Terry Overly 

Our Pack Trips vary in length and with your interests in mind when you are our guest.  You may want to visit the old gold claims to pan for gold or hike up to the top of an 8000’ peak just to look around. Maybe ride horses over the foot of the Chisana Glacier, where you may see caribou on the river bar or Grizzly bears digging ground squirrels on the hillside.  We may just pack up and ride the old Chisana Trail for a day or two.  There is wildlife everywhere. Dall sheep are seen on almost every mountain, caribou roam the tundra and across the riverbeds.  We may even spook up an old bull Alaska Moose around 

almost any bend in the trail, and of course there is the Grizzly bear.  You can run into one of them critters most anywhere. This is a wild untouched place. 

Chisana 

“Shushanna” 

 Chisana is located in the remote South Wrangell St. Elias National Park / Preserve.  This is some of the most beautiful and majestic scenery anywhere in Alaska. For someone who wants to get off the beaten path and away from the mainstream of tourism, this is the place for you.  Our facilities are located on 80 acres of private land and are totally surrounded by magnificent wilderness on all sides.  There are no roads into Chisana at all.  The only way in is to fl y in. We are truly one of the most remote and scenic areas in Alaska.  You will be right in the middle of it.  Although secluded, as we are, the facilities here at Pioneer Outfitters are very comfortable, clean and with a kicked back atmosphere.  Pioneer Outfitters has been owned and operated by the same management for over five decades.  We treat you like family here because when you are with Pioneer Outfitters, you are family. 

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