About
Made by people who actually go.
Yurtalerts started where most good Alaska ideas do: at a trailhead, looking at a cabin that kept getting away.
Why we built it
We were tired of losing the cabin to a faster refresh.
Bella and Josh have spent years chasing Alaska’s public-use cabins and yurts, and losing them. The best ones book out the day the window opens. The only way in is a cancellation, and cancellations go to whoever happens to be looking at the right second.
So we built the thing we wanted: a watch that stays awake around the clock. It checks the booking sites for you, recognizes the moment a held night opens, and sends you straight to the page to grab it. You bring the dates; the watch does the rest.
How we operate
Friendly to the operators. Loyal to the members.
Every cabin Yurtalerts watches belongs to someone: a ranger district, a State Park, a family running a yurt. We treat their booking sites the way we’d want ours treated, politely, slowly, and out of the way. We read public availability and point you to the operator to book direct.
And we keep the circle small on purpose. Yurtalerts is invite-only because an opening shared across a thousand people loses its value fast. A smaller circle gets everyone to cabins quicker.
Every photo here was shot by Bella and Josh on the trips this whole thing is for, so what you see is what you’d actually wake up to.
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