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Tern Lake

Seward and Sterling Highway Junction.

Tern Lake on the Kenai Peninsula.Tern Lake is located at Milepost 37 of the Seward Highway where the Seward and Sterling Highways meet. This junction is important as a reference point in most all destinations on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Watch for the wildlife viewing and interpretive site on the Sterling Highway or pull into Tern Lake Wayside for the salmon viewing platform and some quiet birding.

The easily accessible Tern Lake wildlife viewing area provides visitors to the Kenai Peninsula with an excellent opportunity to view a diversity of Alaska wetland animals. Located along the Seward Highway, the site features an accessible viewing platform and interpretive signs. The Tern Lake area hosts numerous animals, birds, fish and unique plants. Common loons, bald eagles, and arctic terns share the area with a variety of song birds and shorebirds like the northern water thrush, golden-crowned sparrow and the Pine Siskin. Beavers, otters, muskrats, salmon and dolly varden ply the gin clear, ice cold waters of Tern Lake. Keep a Moose, Dall's sheep and mountain goats can be seen on the surrounding mountains.

Tern Lake wildlife can be best viewed from the accessible viewing platform. Interpretive signs help visitors understand the area's wildlife. Throughout the summer, the platform is often staffed by a knowledgeable forest interpreter who can answer questions and help spot wildlife.

Tern Lake campground closed in the late 1990's during the big budget cuts. There is still a nice viewing area over the outlet of the lake and facilities like trash barrels and toilets are still available.

Distance from Tern Lake Junction
Via Seward Highway - Northbound.
Point of InterestMilesMilepost
Tenderfoot Creek Campground, Summit Lake Lodge9.0 
Hope Junction - Hope Highway Turnoff20.0 
Bird Creek Campground64.0 
Girdwood / Alyeska - the city of.49.0 
Portage Glacier Turnoff39.0 
Anchorage Alaska - the city of.89.0 
Via Seward Highway - Southbound.
Point of InterestMiles Milepost
Trail Lakes Fish Hatchery5.0 32.5
Moose Pass Alaska and Trail Lake Lodge. 7.5 29.0
Trail River Campground13.5 
Ptarmigan Creek Campground14 
Exit Glacier Turnoff34 
Seward Alaska - the city of.37 
Via Sterling Highway South.
Point of InterestMilesMilepost
Kenai Lake8.0 
Quartz Creek Campground9.0 
Cooper Landing - the Community of.11.5 
Cooper Creek Campground14.0 
Russian River Campground17.0 
Russian River Ferry18.0 
Upper Skilak Lake Road - East Enterance 21.0 
Kelly Lake & Peterson Lake Campgrounds Turnoff32.0 
Kelly Lake Campground 33.0  
Peterson Lake Campground 33.0  
Lower Skilak Lake Road - West Enterance 38.5 
Sterling Alaska - the city of. 47.0 
Moose River Campground - By the Tesoro Gas Station. 47.5 
Issak Walton Campground, Mouth of the Moose River. 48.0 
Soldotna - the city of. 57.0 
Kasilof River and the community of Kasilof.   
Ninilchik River - the Community of Ninilchik Alaska. 98.0 
Deep Creek Campgrounds - Community of Deep Creek 100.0 
Anchor Point - the city of. 119.0 
Anchor River Campground 120.0  
Homer Alaska - the city of. 135.0 
Homer Spit138.0 

There is an emergency phone located one mile west of the junction of the Sterling Hwy and Seward Hwy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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