Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Snail mail to Hoonah

Currently, it is taking at least 10 delivery days for mail to get to Hoonah, a town a mere 50 some air miles from Sitka, or around 130 sea miles. This is because flights in and out of Hoonah have been erratic due the nasty weather the last 2 - 3 weeks.

People are requesting that if you send hard copy mail to Hoonah and you expect any kind of timely response, they recommend sending a fax or email instead.

To get to Hoonah, you must either fly or drive because there are no roads in or out. Somehow, there seem to be a high number of registered sex offenders (10) living in Hoonah, population 860. The ratio of number of residents in Hoonah to the number of sex offenders is 75 to 1. But don't let that stop you ... I hear it's a pretty cool town. Find out more about Hoonah.

Google actually gives great directions for getting there from Sitka:
  • Head north on Lake St toward Sawmill Creek Blvd 164 ft 2. Slight left at Halibut Point Rd. Turn left 325 ft.
    5.3 mi 18 mins. (like if you're walking -- it's really like 8).
  • Take the Alaska Marine Hwy/Sitka-Angoon Fry ferry to Angoon
    79.2 mi 3 hours 59 mins.
  • Take the Alaska Marine Hwy/Angoon-Hoonah Fry ferry to Hoonah
    70.1 mi 3 hours 13 mins 6.
  • Continue straight 141 ft.
  • Turn right at Cannery Rd 0.1 mi
  • Continue on Front St
    0.6 mi 2 mins

3 comments:

Doogman said...

"Snail mail to Hoonah' ? Sounds like a foreign film title.

Hoonah? What do you call people that live in Hoonah? Hoonans? Hooners? Hoons?

UNLEASH THE HOONS!!!!!

KIA said...

I think they're "Hoonans"

Anonymous said...

I think they are called "people".Small towns are a rarety in the lower 48 mainly because of accessibility.You know, "All roads lead to Rome".But the term "people" finds a truer application in just such places, and Alaska has many of them.