A Ketchikan man has applied for permission to build a floating lodge at Cholmondeley Sound on the eastern side of Prince of Wales Island.
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources announced that it has received an application from Alaska Island Adventures, a summer tourism company.
Steve Dempsey, the owner of the company, plans a lodge complex of four 60-foot by 80-foot log floats hosting a maximum of 15 tourists at a time. The lodge includes two bunkhouses, a kitchen, a showerhouse, and two storage sheds.
The lodge would be served by floatplane or boat and offer kayak tours among other ecotourism operations. Tours are scheduled to begin in summer 2016.
