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Article: Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.(Brief Article)
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- Travel America
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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There is a place south of Anchorage known as "Alaska's Playground." This is the Kenai Peninsula, one of the most scenic and accessible destinations in Alaska. It's the home of world-class fishing on the Kenai River, of moose in Kenai National Wildlife Preserve, and two of Alaska's best-known glaciers.
The Kenai is reached by way of the Seward Highway, a 127-mile ribbon of asphalt that's the only National Scenic Byway in Alaska. From this highway, the major communities of the Kenai lie within a day's drive of Alaska's largest city.
The main towns of the peninsula include Kenai, Soldotna, Homer, and Seward. Kenai, the peninsula's largest city, was founded ...