Diamond Ridge is a census-designated place (CDP) just outside Homer in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 1,156, down from 1,802 in 2000.
View from Diamond Ridge on the Homestead Trail, showing Kachemak Bay and the Kenai Mountains
Diamond Ridge seen from the Homer city limit on Roger's Loop Road
The Homer Demonstration Forest
The Diamond Creek Trail follows a deep ravine to the beach near where Kachemak Bay meets Cook Inlet.
Homer is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 218 mi (351 km) southwest of Anchorage. According to the 2020 Census, the population is 5,522, up from 5,003 in 2010. Long known as the "Halibut Fishing Capital of the World", Homer is also nicknamed "the end of the road", and more recently, "the cosmic hamlet by the sea".
Downtown Homer seen from Beluga Slough
Homer Airstrip, 1942
Homer City Hall, located on Pioneer Avenue
Landmark: the Salty Dawg Saloon