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Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center and Headquarters

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
95 Sterling Highway, Suite 1
Homer, AK 99603-7472
(907) 302-4810
alaskamaritime@fws.gov

The visitor center for Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, previously known as the Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center, takes you on a dramatic journey through the refuge's past and present and surrounds you with the sights, sounds, and even the smells of a seabird colony...and invites you to follow biologists as their research ship sails to remote islands each year. 

It brings the remote, off-shore island world of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge to the visitor in dynamic exhibits, an award winning film and naturalist programs.

The Beluga Slough Trail is a roughly 1.2 mile gravel and boardwalk trail leading from the visitor center, through the slough, and down to Bishop’s Beach. Along the way you may see sandhill cranes, ducks, or shorebirds.
 

Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center is your window to the largest seabird Refuge in the world – with all of the natural wonders of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula right outside its doors. From sea stars to sea lions, this spectacular facility in Hom
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
95 Sterling Highway, Suite 1
Homer, AK 99603-7472
(907) 302-4795
alaskamaritime@fws.gov

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