Four factors make a great lodge: people, location, facility and the fishing.

Here's a question we get asked a lot: what goes into making a great fishing lodge?  There's a lot to it, but most of what it comes down to is a combination of four things: people, location, facility and the fishing. There are countless fishing lodges that really deliver on two or three factors, and the fishing trip ends up being fantastic. It's the lodges that combine all four of the variables into one experience that really set themselves apart from the others.

That's why Traveling Angler and Salmon & Steelhead Journal happily feature this list of lodges as Lodges We Love. Because the lodges featured here have made it a point to combine great fishing into a fantastic facility and then found wonderful people to work there, and if they're really lucky they're located in a spot that makes the trip even better than if it was tucked away in some place that no one wants to be.

- The Editors