Ortal: Wilderness Corner Right Side 60H Long Logs

The Corner Log Fire

The look of a wood fire, wrapped around the corner of the room.

Who it’s for

A flat fireplace plays to the seats directly in front of it, and most gas fires still read as gas—an even row of flames over media. You need a fire that looks like burning logs and can be seen from more than one side of the room. If you’re building or remodeling and there’s a corner where the fire should live, the Ortal Wilderness Corner Right Side 60H puts a log fire behind glass that turns the right-hand corner. It builds into a framed wall, so plan for it as part of the project rather than a swap-in. Choose a standard front-facing unit instead and half the room looks at drywall; choose this one and the fire is in view from almost every seat.

Quick facts

• Viewing area: approx. 62″ of fire wrapping the right-hand corner
• Fuel: natural gas or propane
• Controls: handheld remote with thermostat; app and wall switch optional
• Fan: none

What makes it special

The Wilderness burner fixes the one thing gas fires usually get wrong: the logs. A set of long ceramic driftwood logs stretches across more than five feet of firebox, and the flames move through and around them the way they do in a wood fire. It reads as a hearth fire, not an appliance—the fire you’d build yourself, minus the hauling and the ash.

Because this is a tall-glass model, interior lighting is built in—dimmable from the remote, and it can run without the flame, so the firebox still glows on a summer evening. For the heat barrier, choose a fine mesh screen you barely notice or a double-glass front whose quiet fans keep the outer pane much cooler.

Possible downsides

• Needs household electricity to run, so it won’t light during a power outage.
• Long driftwood is the only log set on this model, in natural gas or propane; there’s no chopped-wood or dark-brown option.
• The glass wraps the right-hand corner only; if your corner opens the other way, the same fireplace comes in a left-side version.

If you want a log fire that holds the room from two sides, the Wilderness Corner Right Side 60H is the right decision. The corner you didn’t know what to do with becomes the room everyone ends up in.

Options run to the heat barrier—protective screen, double glass, or tall double glass—and a long driftwood log set in natural gas or propane.