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:
"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!!!!!
I think they're "Hoonans"
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.
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