Getting Here

Non-stop or one-stop flights to Anchorage are available on multiple carriers from many destinations in the lower 48, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Phoenix, Houston, Salt Lake City, Miami, Minneapolis, New York and Atlanta.  Then it’s another short flight on Alaska Airlines from Anchorage up to Nome.  Here is a list of our favorite places to book travel:
www.alaskaair.com
www.orbitz.com

Sign up for the Alaska Airlines Visa Credit Card!
Go to www.alaskaair.com, scroll over Mileage Plan, and click on Alaska Airlines Credit Card to sign up.  You will receive a $50 companion fare after approval, plus one each year after that.  Alaska Airlines has the best mileage plan in the business, and it will make your trips to Alaska affordable. 
If you have further questions regarding booking a trip to Alaska, feel free to contact us, and we will do our best to assist you. 

Nome History
Nome’s history began in 1898, when the Three Lucky Swedes found gold in Anvil Creek, a small stream that runs into the Snake River.  Gold was found on the beaches a year later, and Nome quickly became Alaska’s largest city, with over 20,000 residents all living in tents along the Bering Sea, primarily between the Snake River and Nome River.  Complete with a bank, post office, theatre, dress shop, saloons, and a hospital, Nome once offered all the amenities of any city.  Several shipping companies ran lines direct to Nome from Seattle and Anchorage.  A typical gold rush boom-and-bust town, Nome's population dwindled to 4500 residents in 1905 and has stayed close to that mark for the last century. 
Much of the old history of Nome was lost in two major fires, one in 1905 and another in 1934.  There is only one historic building left standing today.  Several old gold dredges can be seen right around town and on some of the 300 miles of gravel roads that lead out of Nome.  There are a few gold mining families left in Nome, and they still find gold to this day. 
Nome is situated on the southern side of the Seward Peninsula, along the Bering Sea, at 65N, 165W.  We are only 105 miles from the International Dateline, and the historic Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. 
Nome today has approximately 3500 year round residents, over 50% of which are native Eskimos.  For a small town it is quite well-known.  Nome is probably most famous for its gold mining history, and for being the end of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an 1100 mile race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome.  You can still catch a play every spring put on by the Nome Arts Council, take a dip in the Bering Sea during the annual Memorial Day Polar Bear Swim, test your skills in the Bering Sea Ice Golf Classic, or participate in a number of other activities (some that are quite unusual!) that this small town has to offer. 
Nome is the hub for 15 native villages that dot the region, all with populations between 150 to 700 residents.  The culture here consists of Yup'ik, Siberian Yup'ik, and Inupiat Eskimos, many of which still practice a subsistence lifestyle year-round.  The Seward Peninsula covers approximately 20,000 square miles, with a total of less than 8,000 human residents.