Category: Hope

Hope – historic mining settlement on north shore of Kenai Peninsula

Hope is only surviving gold camp from Upper Kenai Peninsula gold rush

Downtown Hope in 2014 According to the 1915 U.S.G.S. report, Geology and Mineral Resources of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, the only recorded instances of Russian gold exploration in Alaska occurred between 1848 and 1851, when...

Whirlwind trip to Kenai Peninsula historic sites – Summer 2017

Several weeks ago Betsy and I drove down to the Kenai Peninsula for the weekend. We hadn’t been there in about 15 years. While we were there Betsy let me check out a bunch...