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Hotel Listings & Destination Guide for North America - USA - Alaska - Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island - Homer
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HOMER
, 226 miles south from Anchorage, is the Kenai Peninsula's southernmost road-accessible town. It commands a truly magnificent setting, spread beneath gently sloping verdant bluffs with a four-mile finger of land -
The Spit
- slinking out into the dark waters of Kachemak Bay, into which flow crystal-blue glaciers, framed by dense black forest. With abundant activities, a lively nightlife, and a varied, youthful population that supports a thriving arts community, it's so appealing you'll probably want to scrap your itinerary and linger a few days extra.
Russians, drawn by the abundance of coal, were the first whites to reach the area, and by the mid-1800s several American companies had followed suit. In 1896,
Homer Pennock
, a gold-seeker from Michigan, set up the community that still bears his name. Every summer in recent years, young people from the Lower 48 have arrived here in droves to work on the halibut boats or in the cannery, many living in an impromptu tent city on the beach.
The Town and around
The downtown
Pratt Museum
, 3779 Bartlett St (daily 10am-6pm; $6), features high-quality works by local craftspeople, as well as Inuit and other Native artifacts, aquariums and historic Homer oddities. Many of Homer's most popu-lar activities,...
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