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Experience Alaska at its best on the
Alaska Peninsula at the KING KO
INN. We are closed for the winter, but
we'll be reopening in April - on Friday the 13th - for the 2012 season.
Having survived our October 21st End Of The World Party last fall, we
are no longer superstitious about Friday the 13ths. If
you haven't visited King Salmon in a while, be sure to check us out. We
are continuing to make renovations to our lodge and cabins and our
restaurant will
be
again serving up the best food in Bristol Bay. Needless to say, we will
also be reopening Bristol Bay's favorite watering hole with a brand new
schedule of events and activities. But most important, come meet
our staff - the friendliest (and most interesting) in all of Alaska.
They
are the reason the Alaska travel guides are so complimentary towards us
in their current and recent editions. Check out what they are saying
about us on our News
page.
We
are located in the heart of King Salmon, Alaska, about 300 air miles
southwest of Anchorage. Are you tired of combat fishing
shoulder-to-shoulder along a crowded riverbank or playing "bumper cars"
with other fishing boats? Then King Salmon is the place for you! King
Salmon is the home of the world class sport fishing and hunting. Sports
Afield calls King Salmon Alaska's best outdoor sports town. It is also
the gateway to Katmai National Park - home of the famous Valley Of
10,000 Smokes and the gigantic Alaskan
Brown Bear. Our spring bear hunt and fall caribou and
moose hunting opportunities are fantastic. In short, King Salmon is a
sportsman's and sportswoman's paradise. Not only did Sports Afield proclaim King Salmon
as "Alaska's Best
Outdoor Sports Town" two years running, it also recommended the King Ko
Inn as the place to stay when visiting King Salmon.
Try us, you won't regret the
choice.
For
those who haven't visited our watering hole lately, we now have two
huge
crab pots in the
bar for those who want to safely shake their buoys to the beat of our
live entertainment or awesome new music system. We also have
recently introduced our own Alaskan version of a "Las Vegas shadow
screen" - altered for use in King Salmon by dancers wearing chest
waders of course. As always, the foosball, pool and juke box are all
free but no - we will not pay to have your favorite flannel shirt
laundered should a whipped cream fight break out near you. But please
rest
assured, despite all of this excitement and innovation, the
same old frontier spirit survives at the King Ko. Indeed, one of the
first participants in our inaugural women's shadow
screen dance off last summer was a strange-looking individual wearing
a purple
dress, xtratufs and a red beard. Some thought that "she" looked a lot
like a certain deckhand from the Deadliest Catch. While some questioned
this competitor's
"womanhood" (and entitlement to win the women's $250 cash prize), we
declined to withhold her prize money - preferring to rely on the honor
system. Ultimately, this
incident motivated other competitors to compete more earnestly and the
"womanhood" issue is no longer an issue. The events of this historic
night are now memorialized on our history page.
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