Ortal: Wilderness Front Facing 77" Gas Fireplace

The Six-Foot Log Fire

A fire that spans the wall and still looks like burning wood.

Who it’s for

Most gas fireplaces at this width give you a ribbon of flame over glass or stone—striking, but you can tell it’s an appliance. You want the scale without giving up the wood fire. You need a wall-wide fire that reads as burning logs. If you’re building or remodeling around a wall where the fire—not just the flame—is what people notice, the Ortal Wilderness Front Facing 77″ is the one. Pick a standard linear and you get flame over media; pick this one and you get more than six feet of fire moving across driftwood logs.

Quick facts

• Viewing area: 77½” wide
• Fuel: natural gas or propane
• Controls: handheld remote; app and wall switch optional
• Fan: none

What makes it special

Ortal built the Wilderness burner to do one thing: give a gas fire the look and feel of a real log fire. Flames rise between and around the ceramic driftwood the way they climb through a wood fire, and at this width the fire turns the whole wall into the hearth.

The front is a choice, not a compromise. The protective screen is a fine metal mesh, so nearly invisible it preserves the open-fire view, in a frameless design with no metal corners or seams. Or choose Ortal’s patented Double Glass: a second pane with small, silent fans between the layers, keeping the outer surface cool enough to meet the strictest safety standards while staying so clear you won’t know it’s there.

Possible downsides

• It needs household electricity to run and will not operate during a power outage.
• Long driftwood is the only log style at this width; chopped wood and dark brown logs are offered only on smaller Wilderness models.

If you want a wall-wide fire that looks like burning wood instead of an appliance, the Wilderness Front Facing 77″ is the right decision. The room it anchors becomes the one everyone ends up in.

It comes with your choice of the protective screen or the Double Glass front, and long driftwood log sets for natural gas or propane.