Hope, AK

We left Valdez on Tuesday morning and headed for the Kenai Peninsula. It was too long a drive for one day, so we stopped at Finger Lake State Park for one night just outside of Palmer. Then on Wednesday we came from Palmer through Anchorage and south on the Seward Highway. The highway follows the Turnagain Arm which is a body of water off the Cook Inlet south of Anchorage. Our first destination on the Kenai Penisula was the small community of Hope, AK. It is on the south side of the Turnagain Peninsula. We were camped at Seaview Café and Bar RV Park - right on the water with Resurrection Creek coming into Turnagain Arm right out our front window. It is 16 miles off the Seward Highway to Hope, which is at the end of the road.

Thursday was a rainy day. We ate breakfast at Tito’s Discovery Café and then rode some of the back roads and streets checking out the area. The rest of the community has a couple of dirt streets with a Post Office, museum, library, gift shop, and a restaurant. No gas stations. Most of the houses are really old looking - some are log houses. We figure there’s a lot of history here.

The salmon are expected to start running up Resurrection Creek any day now - all the locals (and lots of visitors, too) keep driving down by the creek (and our campsite) looking to see if the salmon have showed up yet.




Today (Friday) we left Hope and headed on further south down the Kenai Peninsula - destination Seward, AK.