Wiseman

Aleneva is the only permanent settlement on Afognak Island, founded by Russian Old Believers who relocated north from Woodburn, Oregon in the late twentieth century. No roads connect it to anywhere…

Chicken is a gold rush settlement at mile 65 of the Taylor Highway, established around 1898 and one of the few surviving camps of that era still occupied. There is no electricity grid, no plumbing…

Edna Bay is the only populated town on Kosciusko Island and one of the newest cities in Alaska, incorporated in 2014. It has no road connection and no certificated electric utility, so households…