Design and construction work was carried out by local outfitter and builder Earl Spencer with help from Spud White and Victor Kutschera.

After the 1932 season, when a guest was killed in an avalanche, Jim Boyce took over management and continued to operate the camp through the 1930s.

[3] The first non-native to explore the Skoki Valley was James Foster Porter of Illinois in 1911.

Porter was so impressed with the name that a suburb in Chicago near his home was later renamed Skokie.

[1][3] During the 2011 royal tour of Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stayed at the lodge.