Ortal Wilderness Front Facing 31" Gas Fireplace

A gas fire your guests will swear is burning wood. Quick Facts • Viewing Area: Approx. 31″ wide—a classic, nearly square fire, not a letterbox. • Fuel: Natural gas or propane. • Controls: Handheld remote with built-in thermostat and timer modes; app and wall switch optional. • Log Styles: Five, from weathered driftwood to white birch. Who It’s For Most gas fireplaces announce themselves: a straight ribbon of flame, logs that fool nobody past the first glance. You want the look of a real wood fire without hauling, splitting, or tending anything. You need a fire that reads as wood and runs from a remote. If the fireplace is going in a traditional room—under a mantel, framed in brick or stone—and the fire itself is the reason you’re doing this, the Wilderness Front 31″ is the one to look at. A standard gas unit will warm the room just fine; this is the fire guests mistake for burning wood . What Makes It Special Ortal built the Wilderness burner for one job: recreating an authentic hearth fire. Flames rise through and around a full ceramic log set instead of tracing a line above it, so the fire has the depth and movement of burning wood —it flickers, it wanders, it holds your eye the way a real fire does. The proportions help sell it. The opening is nearly square, the shape of a masonry fireplace rather than a modern letterbox , and an optional brick panel—herringbone or horizontal, red or tan—lines the back so it looks like a fireplace that has always been part of the house. You run it like an appliance, not a chore. Set 70 on the remote and the fireplace holds the room there on its own , cycling as needed. Every unit includes a safety barrier: a patented mesh screen so fine it’s almost invisible, or Ortal’s Double Glass, which uses small, near-silent fans to keep the outer pane far cooler to the touch. Possible Downsides • Log Fire Only: The five log sets are the only interior media—there is no glass or stone option on this model. • The Double Glass version plugs into a standard outlet and won’t run during a power outage; choose the Protective Screen version if outage operation matters to you. • A Barrier Choice Is Required at Purchase: Every unit is ordered as either Protective Screen or Double Glass—there is no bare-glass configuration. If you want the look and rhythm of a wood fire with none of the work, the Wilderness Front 31″ is the right decision. The room it’s in becomes the room the house lives in. Choose from five log styles—Dark Brown, Chopped Wood, Driftwood, Valley Oak, or Birch—add an optional red or tan brick panel (herringbone or horizontal) or the Blackridge panel, and order it with either the Protective Screen or the Double Glass barrier.

Manuals & Spec Sheets

Documentation for this model is available in the showroom.