# Schunk Lodge

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**Schunk Lodge** is a log cabin located in a remote section of the [Bighorn Mountains](/source/Bighorn_Mountains). The cabin was used as a mail stage stop and as a [dude ranch](/source/Dude_ranch) before it became a mountain cabin for Will Schunk, a conservationist who was instrumental in the establishment of the nearby [Cloud Peak Wilderness](/source/Cloud_Peak_Wilderness).[2]

Schunk Lodge was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in on January 4, 2018.[1]

## Usage

Schunk Lodge was previously used by [The Wilderness Society](/source/The_Wilderness_Society_(United_States)) as a congregative place in nationwide meetings, and was used for the 1957 election of attorney [Harvey Broome](/source/Harvey_Broome) as their president.[3]

## References

1. ["Schunk Lodge"](https://www.facebook.com/WYSHPO/photos/a.118232568259878.27863.117818791634589/1556469491102838/?type=3&theater). Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 24 February 2018.

1. ["Tennessee Man is Wilderness Society Chief"](https://www.newspapers.com/image/317043075). *Jackson's Hole Courier*. 29 Aug 1957. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2023.

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