This past week I had the opportunity to go to a girls camp with the young women from my Church. We went down to the Seward area and spent 2 nights, and 2 days in the area. We had a blast, so I though I’d share a review about the campsite as well as one of our new adventures.

First, our accommodations. We stayed at a campground call Trail River Campground. It is located just south of Moose Pass, and about 20 miles north of Seward. It’s on Kenai lake, right on the outside corner. We arrived on Thursday, so before the weekend rush, and had the campground almost entirely to ourselves, or at least the loop we were on.

I have stayed at a number of campgrounds, and this has to be one of the best. Every campsite spot has a wide drive, big enough for a motorhome, but also a leveled off, smooth area for tents. In that leveled off area there is also a very large, very heavy picnic table and a firepit. Each campsite is separated by 50 or more feet of wooded area before the next site, so there is a good separation between you and your neighbor.

There is potable water, not necessarily close to every campsite, but easy to access. There are nice outhouses that were clean, the whole weekend we were there, and there were trash bins for small waste, as well as dumpsters for larger quantities like we had. You had to bring your own firewood, or it could be purchased on site, we brought our own. Friday night the campground, which had almost 100 spots, filled up to almost capacity. But it never felt tight. Everyone was respectful, and it was just a great experience. I would highly recommend.

We went on a new adventure for almost all of us during this camp. We hiked the Caine’s Head hike. This hike is 20 or so miles long and has to be timed with the tides if you hike to the end. We did not. We hiked about 1.8 miles to the coastline down past Seward.

The hike was well maintain, and quite wide for the first almost 2/3. Once we started down toward the beach, it was a switchback trail that narrowed considerably, but was still easy to navigate. Just before the beach we came to a bridge that crossed the exit point of a small river.

We arrived at low tide, ate our lunch, and then did a little bit of beach combing. We found hollowed out, hand sized crabs, lots of mussels, cool rocks of course, and a few jelly fish. There were eagles nesting not far from the beach, and we enjoyed watching them fly overhead and fish not far off the coastline.

The tide started to come in fairly quickly while we were wandering on the beach, and we finally decided to head back up the trail. The part of trail we hiked is not a hard walk, but it is very up and down. There were salmon berries just coming on all along the first half of our hike, and the forest was green, moss covered, and lush. Every part of the hike had something beautiful to see.

Overall I think we spent only a couple hours start to finish, but it was a great adventure to go and see a place we had never seen. It was fun exploring, and there were only a few people when we first arrived. We passed quite a number on our way out, so it seemed to be a popular area.

Some of my kids would like to go to Seward this summer, and I decided this would be a great adventure to share with them as well, so if you’re headed that way and need a campsite along with a fun little (or big if you hike the whole thing) adventure, I would recommend both the Trail River Campground and the Caines Head hike.