Kenai is a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. By road, it is 158 miles southwest of Anchorage. The population was 7,424 as of the 2020 census, up from 7,100 in 2010, the fifteenth-most populated city in the state.
Aerial view of part of downtown Kenai. The intersection of Willow Street and Barnacle Way is in the center of the foreground. Cook Inlet and Mount Redoubt are in the background.
Kenai in the 1940s
Holy Assumption Russian Orthodox Church
fishing boats emerging from the Kenai River into Cook Inlet
Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Kenai Peninsula Borough is a borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,799, up from 55,400 in 2010. The borough seat is Soldotna, the largest city is Kenai, and the most populated community is the census-designated place of Kalifornsky.
Image: Overhead view of Homer and Kachemak Bay
Image: Sunrise on Kachemak Bay
Image: Kenai River Alaska
Image: Coral Seymour Ballpark