Homer Spit

Homer Spit, known in Dena’ina as Uzintun, is a long, low strip of gravel and sand extending about 4.5 miles into Kachemak Bay from Homer at the end of the Kenai Peninsula. Its formation is attributed either to currents and tidal swells over millennia or to glacial action. In 1899, railroad tracks laid along the spit linked docks with nearby coal fields and helped spur Homer’s early growth. The 1964 Alaska earthquake reduced the spit to 508 acres and destroyed most of its vegetation. Today it holds Homer’s busy boat harbor, fishing lagoon, businesses, and campgrounds, remaining central to the town’s working waterfront, visitor life, and identity despite ongoing coastal hazards.

Homer, Alaska · United States