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 About Ninilchik . . .
Ninilchik
is centrally located on the Kenai Peninsula with Homer 40 miles south and
Soldotna and the Kenai River 40 miles north, so lots of people make Ninilchik
their "home base". There
are several restaurants here, a gas station, and a well stocked General Store
that sells fishing gear. If you are
driving from Anchorage, it's a 180-mile drive, which takes about 4 hours (more
if you stop to look at the great scenery).
It's best to buy supplies in Anchorage or Soldotna.
Ninilchik
was settled by Russian Native families in the 1830's.
The Russian Orthodox Church which is poised on a hilltop above the old
village is probably the most photographed view on the Kenai Peninsula.
Two small streams, Deep Creek and Ninilchik River, provide excellent
salmon and trout fishing. Then in August the silver salmon enter the rivers.
These fish are very acrobatic and hard fighters.
During minus tides a person can dig a bucket of razor clams along
the beaches of Cook Inlet. Clamming is excellent just a few miles from our place.
We will be happy to take you to the hot spots and show you how to
dig if we have time. Or we
will give you directions and you can go after the clams yourself. We
rent clam shovels.
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17# Silver caught in
the Ninilchik River. |
How is this done? |
Wildlife is also abundant in the area.
Hundreds of bald eagles spend their summer here and can be
photographed perched in trees, soaring in the sky above you or munching
on a fish carcass on the beach. Moose come out of the hills in late May to calve along the
river banks or near the bluff where predators are less likely to harm
newborns. They wander
around the area feeding on the alders during the summer.
Forty minutes north of Ninilchik are Soldotna and Kenai, and the world
famous Kenai River with runs of king, red, and silver salmon.
Forty minutes south of Ninilchik is Homer and Kachemak Bay with
its marine life and scenery. It
is a "must see".
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