Kenai Mountains National Heritage Area
Kenai Mountains – Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area
The Kenai Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state
of Alaska. They extend 192 km (120 mi) northeast from the southern end of the
Kenai Peninsula to the Chugach Mountains, and have an average elevation of
3,000 to 5,000 feet.
The Harding and Sargent Icefields, as well as the many
glaciers that originate from them, derive in the Kenai Mountains. Several prime
fish-producing rivers, including the Kenai River and the Russian River, also
flow from the mountains.
The name "Kenai" was first published by Constantin
Grewingk in 1849, who obtained his information from I. G. Wosnesenski's account
of a voyage to the area in 1842. The Kenai Indian's name for the mountain range
is "Truuli."
Kenai Mountains – Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area
The Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area
(KMTA NHA) encompasses a distinctive landscape of mountains, lakes, rivers,
glaciers, and fjords. The area is comprised of north-south road, rail, and
trail corridors from Bird to Seward and includes the communities of Girdwood,
Portage, and Moose Pass. To the west, the area includes Cooper Landing,
Sunrise, and Hope. To the east lie Portage, Whittier, and the wild waters of
Prince William Sound.
The Kenai Mountains – Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area
(KMTA) includes the road corridor between Seward and Hope and Whittier, from
Resurrection Bay in the south to the Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet in the
north. It includes portions of Chugach National Forest, the Iditarod Trail
network, the Alaska Railroad and the Seward Highway.
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