TWO PEAS AND THE POD: 💯DAYS in AK💚QUARTZ CREEK CAMPGROUND💚

THURSDAY

ALASKAN STOP #23

QUARTZ CREEK CAMPGROUND

CHUGACH NATIONAL FOREST near COOPER LANDING, AK

This morning we're traveling a short distance down the Seward Highway, that's the highway that deadends at where else, Seward, AK. But we're not going to Seward just yet! We're heading to the town of Kenai and in order to get to the town of Kenai you'll have to turn right at the entrance to the Sterling Highway. Guess where the Sterling Highway deadends? If you guessed Sterling, you'd be absolutely wrong!

The highway travels right through the small town of Sterling before it deadends some 85-miles away in the town of Homer. That's where we're eventually heading several days from now, but first we'll stop in Kenai at the Walmart for a free overnight visit and pick a few groceries.

Most of the highways on the Kenai Peninsula dead end when they meet the sea. So most of our travels for the next several weeks will involve driving until the road ends, make a u-turn, then head right back up the same road in the opposite direction. That's another reason the Kenai Peninsula reminds me of Key West, it too is at the end of the road.

We got on the road a little bit early this morning so I could find some cell signal to post the previous blog. We found some in a beautiful roadside pullout with a view of the mountains. At least it would of had a view if it wasn't raining so much. Anyway after several hours of uploading photos and writing the post we're back on the road to Quartz Creek Campground.

This is our second Chugach National Forest campground in a row. There are more than a dozen campgrounds in the National Forest and before we leave we will have spent the night in five of them. For us, they're half price ($7-$9) and are usually quiet with clean bathrooms, that makes them a pretty good bargain compared to the Alaska State Parks, which usually cost around $20 a night for the same amenities.

Our soggy Campsite #13 at Quartz Creek Campground located on Kenai Lake.

A view of ROVER and THE POD from the lakeshore.

The lake behind our campsite is the 22-mile long, zig-zag shaped, Kenai Lake. It's average depth is about 300' and is the headwaters of the Kenai River.

Later in the afternoon we took a drive to see the Kenai River in Cooper Landing.

SATURDAY - As luck would have it, this morning for the first time since we arrived here, the sun came out and gave us this beautiful rainbow and lit up the far shoreline with sunlight.

Just in time for us to leave!