Nenana Alaska Historic Alaskan Community

Nenana Alaska

Toghotthele Hill is a very visible landmark, and why Nenana, long ago, became a traditional gathering place for hunting, fishing, trade, meetings and celebrations by different groups of Athabascan Indian. The sternwheeler, later the barges, the highway, the train all converged here changing Nenana and making it a melting pot of diverse cultures. If you visit Nenana you can see miners, trappers, homesteaders, Alaskan Natives, shopkeepers, boat crews and others together in this little river town we call Nenana. These people are not actors in costumes putting on a show for tourists; this is the reality of how we live. This is one thing that makes Nenana unique, being an authentic year round village on the Parks Highway. We are also a full service community offering an RV park, airstrip, and places to eat, stay, a museum, many diverse business ventures. Nenana has gone from boomtown to small town several times in its history. The population now is about 460, with additional 600 or so residents in the surrounding area. To find out more and get directed to the area of your interest please click on the links. If you still have unanswered questions or a link doesn't work feel free to contact those who maintain this page listed below.

when will the tripod go out?
over $300,000 for the right guess!

This page is maintained by:
The Nenana Valley Chamber of Commerce-

Nenana Alaska is located at mile 305 of the Parks Highway. This historic community / Athabascan Native Village is 56 miles from Fairbanks and 75 miles north of Denali National Park. This site is Nenana's community web site designed to provide you with links to whereever in Nenana you wish to go, and to introduce you to our community with some basic facts and pictures of life from Nenana's view of the world.

This page last modified in March 06

tripod and clock tower before being set on the ice at 'Tripod Days' Check out events calender for this and other events!

All Nenana businesses

Fun -interesting pictures - children, events that say 'this is us'

The city- school- churches any Nenana organization

Nenana Valley Chamber of commerce- information how to join - latest minutes etc.

Nenana residents with personal web sites to share

Disclaimer: We try to maintain links with integrity but are not responsible for the pages linked to us. Pages found to be not reflecting the spirit of our community- (in the communities opinion) or are illegal or lewd will be unlinked. A business being listed here does not imply any guarantees nor serve as a recommendation.

Instructions on how to do a reciprical link -contact us to have your page listed-here's how to get us on your page

For help being directed to the right place- questions about the site- or locals wanting to link

Nenana as seen from toghotthele hill

at www.nenanahomepage.com

This page was the original creation of Gayle Stevens- an established Nenana resident who saw the need of a place for all Nenana business people to gather on the Internet in about 98. Miles Martin- a local artist joined in the work in 2000. Miles supplied ideas- pictues words- did the artsy stuff- while Gayle cleaned it up- did most of the technical things. In Jan. 03 The Nenana Chamber of Commerce purchased the site and now it is more of a community effort.

A map marked with places of interest to help you find your way around

these 'out of the community' links have links to us on their page

Fairbanks information site--information and links taking you through the interior of Alaska- click on icon.

"Submitexpress' free listings in search engines- of special interest to Nenananites- gets you in the search engines with your page

Nenana Alaska homepage- organizations business churches school all link together so our historic community can be found for those who want to vacation hunt find lodging see the Tanana River or Parks Highway near Denali

Nenana Alaska
Community Page

Nenana's newspaper- weekly classifieds listed

A tour company that regularly visits Nenana with a bus. These folks like Nenana and the Nenana Chamber supports their efforts at providing good service.