This cabin is exactly as pictured in the listing, possibly a little better. It is a fantastic place to relax with a group, enjoy the sound of the river, and fly fish. My husband and brother in law had a great time wading up and down the river. There is another house right across the river from this one which you don't see in the pictures, but it is a bit back from the river and hidden by plenty of bushes. Otherwise, the cabin feels completely private.
The kitchen was the best stocked with dishes, pots/pans, utensils, and small appliances of any vacation rental we have ever had, including high end homes. And the dishes were clean! I'm used to finding half of the silverware, plates, and glasses with food crusted on them. Not the case here. Possibly because the dishwasher worked great.
The bathrooms, while older, still felt clean. No black grout like in other rentals. Only kind of gross thing was The hand soap container was nearly empty and at first, all I could find was a container FULL of previously used bars of soap. Super gross any time, and not safe during COVID. I found full liquid soap containers and new bars of soap in one of the cabinets.
There are rodents. You will see traps around and I saw one live one. We have had this with other (much less clean) cabin rentals on rivers in Montana so maybe rodents are unavoidable?
The check in process here is not the typical VRBO check in where you get a code for a lock box a few days before check in. I received the usual "here's your key" email from VRBO a few days before but the day before, noticed the field was blank when I logged in. I also received a phone call and email from the mangers a couple of days before asking to arrange a meet and greet. This was off-putting because the listing described a no-contact check in process and I look for this when booking during COVID. Even pre-COVID, I can't tell you the last time I actually had to meet the owner or manager of a rental at check in. They explained to me that they had had problems with no-contact check in and that this was described in the rental agreement. I looked and the agreement says nothing about not being able to do no-contact checkins. They did end up making an exception for me.
In addition, even though the listing says the cabin sleeps 8-10 people, there is an extra fee of $20 per person per night over 4 people. This seems deceiving, but we were already committed to the week, by the time I saw it.