Address:

18404 Sterling Hwy
Cooper Landing, Alaska 99572


Phone: (907)595-5555


Email: [email protected]

Directions to Drifter’s Lodge from Anchorage:

From Anchorage, the drive is 99 miles, or about 2 hours. It is an easy drive, mostly on the Seward Highway.

  • Take the Seward Hwy south out of Anchorage. This will take you along the beautiful Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet. The speed limit is 55 and 65 be aware that it changes a couple of times.

  • Girdwood is the last gas stop before Cooper Landing. When you get here you are about 1 hour and 15 min away from Drifter’s Lodge.

  • Once you turn around the end of Turnagain Arm, you will start up the mountain (still on the Seward Hwy). At the top of the mountain there are pullouts with bathrooms.

  • 15 more minutes and there is another pull out with a bathroom this is just before the big curved bridge and the turnoff to get to Hope (Don’t turn)

  • Continue on the Seward Hwy. You will now start going up a long hill keep going and Summit Lake Lodge will be on your left side they also have bathrooms and food. Keep going…

  • Turn right off the Seward Hwy onto the Sterling Hwy toward Kenai/Homer.

  • You are 11 miles away from Drifters Lodge it is still 55 mph

  • Keep going for about 8.5 miles and the speed limit will drop to 45 mph you are 3 miles away

  • On your left you will pass Sunrise Inn and café, and you will see Kenai Lake…keep going

  • Speed limit goes to 35 mph you are less than 1 mile away. Wildman’s Liquor and Laundry is on your right

  • The highway crosses the Kenai River, and we are a quarter mile farther down the road on the right (river side of the road). We have a two-story wooden sign out by the road saying Drifter’s Lodge in yellow letters.

  • If you see Grizzly Ridge gas station, you are 300 feet past us

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Directions to Drifter’s Lodge from Seward:

  • Take the Seward Hwy out of town (it’s the only road out) and drive about 31 miles.

  • Take a left off the Seward Hwy onto the Sterling Hwy toward Kenai/Homer.

  • You are 11 miles away from Drifters Lodge it is still 55 mph

  • Keep going for about 8.5 miles and the speed limit will drop to 45 mph you are 3 miles away

  • On your left you will pass Sunrise Inn and café, and you will see Kenai Lake…keep going

  • Speed limit goes to 35 mph you are less than 1 mile away. Wildman’s Liquor and Laundry is on your right

  • The highway crosses the Kenai River, and we are a quarter mile farther down the road on the right (river side of the road). We have a two-story wooden sign out by the road saying Drifter’s Lodge in yellow letters.

  • If you see Grizzly Ridge gas station, you are 300 feet past us

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