The woman shares how she lives in “Middle-of-Nowhere” Alaskan Town (exclusive)

• Salina Alsworth Peterson tells people exclusively about being born and raised in Port Alsworth, a “Middle-of-Nowhere” city in Alaska without roads and only available via aircraft founded by her ancestors
• She lives with her husband in a village of less than 200 people and works on her family’s resort all year round, which almost doubles the city’s population in the summer because of her tourist attraction
• She chronicles her unique way that Alaskan lives on social media as a side control and shares her temporary food traits when she jumps on a flight that takes about an hour to the nearest town with shops and restaurants

Imagine you forget something in the grocery store in town and you want to go back to get it, but you have to jump on an almost hour long flight that costs an approximate $ 600 round trip to do it. It may sound like an extremely hypothetical to many – but for Salina Peterson it is her reality.

On a map, her remote Alaskan by Port Alsworth is called. It is a census-designed place that is cozy located within the large wilderness in Lake Clark National Park and is home to about 180 people, the largest society in the scenic-friend-but roadless country.

Peterson, Né Salina Alsworth Peterson, is one of these people together with her family and former her ancestors who discovered the named snow-covered city in 1950. It sits on the lake’s southern beach at the mouth of the Tanali river.

While you can now plot Port Alsworth’s coordinates, Peterson considers a native who lived there all his life-most it “in the middle of nowhere”, tells people in an exclusive interview about what it takes to survive in the almost city city and why she continues to live there 27 years later.

“This is how I grew up. It’s normal,” Peterson says about his daily in remote Alaska. It differs uniquely from the lifestyle in the lower 48, largely due to the village’s geographical surroundings that affect daily travel and responsibility.

“I look outside my windows right now and there are 3,000 foot mountains that I am completely surrounded by … only wilderness and beauty,” she says, referring to the reason why there are no roads in sight. “It’s just all robust terrain and rivers and lakes that need to be crossed.”

Peterson calls it “fantastic”, although it means daring to the nearest town, anchorage, to do almost anything, from eating at a restaurant to buying food and necessities from the grocery store. It is 165 miles southwest by air, which is about one and a half hours by plane.

When asked what is within Port Alsworth who would not justify that she jumped on a flight, Peterson replies – without hesitation – “Nothing.”

Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska and acts as a gate to nearby wilderness areas. The only possible way to achieve commuting for those traveling from Port Alsworth is by Air Taxi, a service that has a profession that drives Peterson’s blood.

“Long story short, my Oldfar came from Minnesota to Alaska because he loved aviation and he found nothing in the lower 48,” she reminds her fatherly relative with the name Leon (Babe) Alsworth. “He wanted to do something more with that, so he came to Alaska.”

Babe was a missionary and Bush pilot, who met his wife married Alsworth, an Aleut woman, through his travels to his original pilot point, an even less Alaskan -village than Port Alsworth. The poison worked at one of Canneries Babe often would often go for the job.

“Her family owned the general store. They were really involved in Canieries. So with flight he met her, they fell in love and got married,” explains Peterson about Babe and her grandmother, who eventually became Port Alsworth’s first postmaster.

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“You had to show that you could live outside the country,” Peterson explains. “That’s how our family came here,” she says of their agricultural houses that grew into the spreading port Alsworth that is known today. “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my grandparents.”

Ever since then, Alsworth’s Hustled has to keep the city they founded a remarkable destination on the map. Babe and Movel’s youngest son, Glen Alsworth Sr., established Farm Lodge to tend to their agricultural farm in 1977 with his wife, Patty Alsworth.

His son, Glen Alsworth Jr., followed, and finally moved the business in the early 2000s from their family’s farm location located in the middle of their agricultural home to the slope facility overlooking Hardenburg Bay on Lake Clark’s southeastern beach, where it remains – and thrives – today.

Five generations of Alsworths have contributed to the success of Farm Lodge, including Peterson, working on Lake Clark Resort Alongside her family all year round and do guest relationships and more-or as she puts it, “everything that needs to be done to keep the company going.”

In addition, Peterson easily runs publicity for family resort on his own Social media accounts which has taken up half a million followers over platforms and collected hundreds of thousands of views.

Although she contributes to the family’s business, Peterson has lived on her own since 2019 – but for a city where “everything is within a mile apart”, she is “very close” to the rest of her breed.

“My parents literally live five steps away and my grandparents live another five steps away,” she says with a laugh.

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Work aside, Peterson fills his days with activities; Many of them are advantageous for her Arctic surroundings. “Our house is heated by a wood stove,” she says about where she and her husband live.

“So at the top of the job, we also go out almost every day to chop wood because it has to dry out for a year or so,” she explains. “So you chop wood for next winter.”

It takes “a lot of work” to live comfortably in Port Alsworth, says Peterson with pride, especially since the Alaskan area has winters where the temperature can drop as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit, and all over -20 degrees Fahrenheit is considered “hot” for the season.

That is why crocheting and knitting attracts Peterson, who was causal to donate a self -made sweater during his interview with People at the end of February. “You have to find something you can do inside,” she says especially because when the weather is “bad” and that hobbies like kayaking or hiking would not be fun.

Peterson also loves snowmobiling, an activity that acts as an adventure -seeking leisure activity and a common form of transport for Port Alsworth’s roadless society. “We call them snow machines,” she says.

Children also drive the four -wheeled vehicles, many of whom drive them to school.

“The children are taught by their parents really young how to be safe,” says Peterson, noting that school buses are not in Port Alsworth. This is partly the reason why she started driving them herself at about “seven or eight” years old.

Although she grew up in Port Alsworth as a child, Peterson admits that it has “been a learning curve” since she moved out of her parent’s home. Simple, everyday routines such as preparing dinner require significant thoughts and strategy because of their home remote unit.

“I really make sure we are filled with freezer things because it is so much easier than having fresh things to go bad. Even if we buy our meat healthy, I freeze it,” she explains. “I can’t just run to a store and take something.”

In addition to freezing articles and stores shelves of non-negotiations, Peterson says they will fish for salmon and hunt for moose during certain times of the year.

“Beef is equal to moose. So everything that was like,” Oh, we have broccoli and beef for dinner, “it was actually moose and broccoli for dinner,” she explains. “We are still doing our moose hunting, but we probably get a moose maybe every couple of years just because we don’t need it that often.”

Living outside the country is also a more affordable alternative, as Peterson says it is about 90 cents per pound groceries flying into town; Therefore, their food bill makes “much” overall.

Food aside, all their deliveries are transported by postplan every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Those living in Port Alsworth can order from Amazon; Even to no surprise, Amazon is a day’s deliveries an option!

While Peterson has spent most of her life living in Port Alsworth, she experienced life outside the distant alaskan -city of having gone to college in Oregon before transferring to another in Virginia.

“I wanted a whole new experience, so it was definitely a cultural shock … being able to go to a store and get fresh fruit when I wanted to be just like mind-blowing,” she says.

In fact, Peterson tells people that those who visit the city she calls home are more “culture shocked” when they only visit “because of the beauty that is around us,” she says. “So when people come, they are like,” Oh, I never want to leave. This place is amazing. ”

When it comes to Alaskan-born Peterson, who moved to the lower 48 and back, she could not agree more.