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FOUNDING RUN · FIRST BUILD: FALL 2026

A hunting lodge that doesn't need a contractor.

Two shipping containers become locking steel gun vaults. A truss roof spans the gap between them and that's your great room, kitchen, and bunk rooms — framed by you and three buddies, standing in six days. Your local lumberyard delivers the trusses and timber, every piece labeled to the plan. The wiring is standardized — follow the directions and it goes where it says. The kitchen arrives factory-built. We've done 80% of the work; the last 20% is a good week with your crew.

8
Sleeps
2
Steel gun vaults
6
Days to dry-in
0
Subcontractors to find

SHIPS NATIONWIDE FROM BIRMINGHAM, AL · FREIGHT ADD-ON APPLIES ON LONGER HAULS — QUOTED FLAT BEFORE YOU ORDER

JOIN THE WAITLIST SEE SIZES & PRICING

No charge yet — join the waitlist and we’ll confirm your founding slot by email. The $500 deposit (fully refundable) comes once payments open.

SteelCamp lodge at dusk — two black shipping containers under a timber-truss gable with a full glass end wall, warm light inside, pickup truck parked on gravel

RENDERING · THE 10-POINT WITH LODGE TRIM · TWO CONTAINERS, ONE TRUSS ROOF, YOUR LAND

CROSS-SECTION · 10-POINT SHOWN GUN VAULT GUN VAULT GREAT ROOM · KITCHEN · BUNKS 960 SF LIVING · SEALED CONCRETE FLOOR STAMPED 40' TRUSSES · 24" O.C. · METAL ROOF SLAB POURED UNDER COVER, AFTER DRY-IN

THE CONTAINERS AREN'T THE HOUSE. THEY'RE THE WALLS, THE SHIPPING CRATES YOUR KIT ARRIVES IN, AND TWO LOCKING STEEL VAULTS — ALL AT ONCE.

THE BUILD · A REAL SEQUENCE

You and three buddies. One long week.

We've done 80% of the work before your kit ever arrives. What's left is labeled, standardized, and sequenced — you're following directions, not solving problems.

DAYS 1–2

Set & span

Containers set on piers you've had poured. Bearing plates bolt to the top rails. Your local lumberyard delivers the stamped trusses and framing timber — every piece labeled so you know exactly where it goes — and the trusses fly with a rented telehandler.

DAYS 3–6

Dry in

Purlins, metal roof, two gable end walls, windows, doors. Weather-tight by the weekend. Then the slab pours under cover — steel-troweled and sealed, because it's the finished floor.

AT YOUR PACE

Connect, don't contract

The wiring is fully standardized and labeled — it installs by following the directions, no guesswork. Plumbing home-runs click into a manifold. The kitchen arrives factory-built and lags to the floor. One electrician, one short day, to land the service. That's the whole trades list.

Aerial rendering of a SteelCamp lodge in a pine clearing at sunset — black metal roof, gravel drive, food plot and fire pit behind

RENDERING · SET IN A PINE CLEARING — GRAVEL DRIVE, FOOD PLOT, FIRE PIT OUT BACK

THE PART NO CABIN CAN COPY

Your rifles sleep in a steel vault.

Each bunk room opens into its own container through a keyed solid-core door — 300 square feet of raw steel vault per side, partitioned into personal gear bays with rifle racks. Every hunter gets a locker. Everything locks when camp is empty.

Steel sweats, so we handle it: every vault ships with a closed-cell foam flash coat for the walls and a dedicated dehumidifier plumbed to drain. Dry steel, dry powder, no rust — including the months nobody's there.

Prefer plain bedrooms? The Family configuration deletes the vault openings and keeps the containers as lockable storage through their end doors. Same building, your call at order time.

Interior rendering of the SteelCamp great room — exposed timber trusses, corrugated container steel wall, leather couches, wood stove, sealed concrete floor, deer mounts

RENDERING · THE GREAT ROOM — CONTAINER STEEL, TIMBER TRUSSES, SEALED CONCRETE FLOOR. NOTHING HIDDEN.

THREE SPANS · SAME PROGRAM · ALL SLEEP 8

Pick your span.

Every size ships the same two 40' containers, the same factory-built kitchen, the same standardized wiring — and every kit includes the all-electric appliance package and a second full bath, because that's what nearly everyone orders anyway. The only thing that changes is how wide the great room gets — and the great room is the cheapest square footage on the building.

8-POINT
20' SPAN · THE CAMP
LIVING800 SF
VAULT610 SF
FOOTPRINT36' × 40'
SLEEPS8
FULL BATHS2
$72,850KIT · FOUNDING RUN
APPLIANCES + 2ND BATH INCLUDED
12-POINT
30' SPAN · THE BIG ROOM
LIVING1,200 SF
VAULT610 SF
FOOTPRINT46' × 40'
SLEEPS8
FULL BATHS2
$78,800KIT · FOUNDING RUN
APPLIANCES + 2ND BATH INCLUDED

Founding-run target pricing, subject to final engineering — founding buyers lock their price when engineering is final or walk with a full refund. Every kit includes the all-electric appliance package and a second full bath. Kits ship nationwide from Birmingham, Alabama; a flat freight add-on applies on longer hauls and is quoted before you commit a dollar past the refundable deposit — and because your trusses and framing timber come from your local lumberyard, the heaviest material never rides the truck. Flat-fee professional installation available in Alabama: $20,000 to weather-tight. Kit excludes land, concrete, well, septic, and power service — plain-English allowances for all of it in our buyer's guide, because those numbers are real and you should see them first.

OPTIONS · FLAT PRICES · ADD AT ORDER OR LATER

Camp candy.

Every option obeys the same law as the lodge itself: it arrives pre-built, gets set in place, and connects — no contractors, no change orders, one flat number.

Pro Install (AL)

Our crew sets and dries-in your lodge in about six days. You show up to a weather-tight building.

$20,000 FLAT

Hot Tub Package

8-person spa, pad poured with your slab, dedicated circuit in the harness. Craned in, plugged in, steaming.

$25,000

Modular Grill Station

Stainless drop-in grill island under the porch. Set in place, bolted down — you supply the propane tanks. No gas lines, no plumber.

$15,000

Gameday Package

Weatherproof outdoor TV and a hardscaped patio to gather on. Set, wired to the harness, ready for kickoff.

$10,000

Parking Pad

Concrete pad sized for your trucks and trailers, spec'd with your slab package so the ready-mix truck rolls once.

$15,000

Lodge Trim

Vaulted great-room ceiling, 10' covered porch on timber posts, window wall on the view gable, blacked-out exterior.

$18,000

Walk-In Game Cooler

Insulated walk-in built into one vault end. Hang a season's worth of deer at 38°F off one standard circuit.

$15,000

Processing Station

Stainless table, deep sink, hoist and rail under the porch. Clean game the right way, then hose it all down.

$7,500

THE ADD-ON LAW: IF IT NEEDS A SUBCONTRACTOR, WE DON'T SELL IT.

NO SURPRISES

What's in the kit. What's on you.

IN YOUR KIT

  • Stamped trusses & framing timber — delivered by your local lumberyard, every piece labeled to the plan
  • Metal roof, gable walls, bearing plates & anchors
  • Standardized, labeled wiring package + panel & service pack — installs by the directions
  • Factory-built kitchen — cabinets, counters, sink — finished in the shop, not the field
  • All-electric appliance package — included in every kit
  • Two full baths — fixtures, PEX manifold plumbing, water heater
  • Through-wall heat/cool unit, vault dehumidifiers, generator inlet
  • Insulation, drywall, doors, trim, tile, slab sealer
  • Gun vault outfit: engineered openings, keyed doors, gear bays
  • Stamped plans, cut sheets, and a phone number that answers

ON YOU (WE'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT COSTS)

  • Your land
  • Concrete — piers, then the slab (typ. $8–10K local ready-mix)
  • Well ($8–15K typ.) and septic ($6–10K typ.) if not on site
  • Power drop — call your co-op for a quote before you order
  • A telehandler rental, a dumpster, and three good buddies
  • Permits where your county requires them
BUILT IN THE OPEN

We're testing this idea in public. Here's the deal.

SteelCamp is new. The first lodge goes up on a hunting property in Alabama in Fall 2026, and we're filming all of it — the parts that go smooth and the parts that don't. Founding buyers get the real story, the real numbers, and the first slots in the build queue behind it.

If something in the design can be better, we'll change it and tell you why. If a cost moves, you'll see it before you owe it. Your deposit is refundable any time, for any reason — we'd rather earn the order twice than trap it once. That's the whole arrangement.

— BUILT BY AN ALABAMA-LICENSED HOMEBUILDER. STEEL IS WHAT WE KNOW.

STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions worth asking.

Can regular guys really build this?
The structure is deliberately ordinary: bolt plates to container rails, set commodity residential trusses, screw down purlins and metal panel. If your crew has framed a deck and run a screw gun, you can dry this in. The traditionally hard parts — wiring, plumbing, kitchen — arrive standardized, labeled, or fully pre-built, with directions that tell you exactly where everything goes. The one licensed trade you'll need is an electrician for a single day to land the service. Or take the $20K Alabama install and we'll hand you a weather-tight building.
Do you ship nationwide?
Yes — kits ship anywhere in the lower 48 from Birmingham, Alabama. A flat freight add-on applies the further you are from Alabama, and you'll see the exact number before you commit anything past the refundable deposit. Freight stays manageable because the heaviest material — your trusses and framing timber — is delivered by your local lumberyard, not trucked across the country.
How do people pay for it?
Most of our buyers own their land outright, and that changes everything: Farm Credit lenders (Alabama Farm Credit, First South, AgSouth) exist specifically for rural acreage that conventional banks avoid, and paid-off land works as your equity. We're not a lender and can't promise an approval — but we'll hand you the numbers in the format lenders ask for.
Isn't living in a shipping container miserable?
It would be — which is why nobody lives in ours. The containers are vaults and storage; every square foot of living space is conventional wood framing, insulation, and drywall under a real truss roof, same as any house. The steel does what steel is good at: holding the roof up and locking your gear down.
What about permits and codes?
Every kit ships with engineer-stamped truss, anchor, and opening details — the paperwork that makes permitting, insurance, and lending possible. Requirements vary by county; many rural counties are lightly zoned, but confirming yours is on the pre-order site checklist we walk through with you, along with the power, well, and septic questions, before you spend real money.
What does "founding run" actually mean?
It means you're early, and we treat that fairly: deposits are $500 and refundable any time; pricing is a target until first-build engineering is final; founding buyers see costs move before they commit another dollar; and the first build — going up in Fall 2026 — gets filmed and published, good and bad. Early buyers take on newness, so they get transparency, first slots, and locked founding pricing in exchange.
FOUNDING RUN · LIMITED SLOTS

Hold your place in the build queue.

Join the founding waitlist to lock your slot and your founding price. We’ll email you to confirm — the $500 refundable deposit follows once payments open. Not ready? Follow the first build on Instagram and watch us prove it first.

Real numbers and real build footage. No polish, no spam.