Geography

• Cold Bay is approximately 630 miles southwest of Anchorage, and is home to abundant seashores and snowy peaks. The Alaska Peninsula extends southwest from the Alaskan mainland, separating the north Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Snow-covered volcanic peaks dot the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, and Cold Bay is home to a volcano complex that includes Frosty Peak, which towers majestically on the southwestern horizon.
  
  

Statistics

• Cold Bay boasted a population of 74 people in July 2008, according to figures provided by City-data.com. The land area of Cold Bay is just under 55 square miles, which provides every resident with about 1 square mile of space.
  
  

Weather

• Because of its southern location, Cold Bay weather is not as frigid as other Alaskan cities. Cold Bay experiences the coldest temperatures from December to February, when the low averages 25 degrees Fahrenheit, according to MSN Weather. Highs during these months reach the low to mid-30s. In the summer, Cold Bay's temperature ranges from lows in the 40s to highs in the 50s. The highest temperature ever recorded in Cold Bay reached 92 degrees in June 1931.
  
  

Getting There

• There are no roads going into Cold Bay, Alaska, so the town can only be reached by air or water. Visitors fly into the Cold Bay Airport, which is home to the fifth largest runway in the United States. Cold Bay Airport serves as a hub connecting many small peninsular communities with Anchorage and Seattle, and the city is vital to commerce on the Alaska Peninsula.
  
  Visitors also travel to Cold Bay aboard ferries via the Alaska Marine Highway System. The state ferries connect many Alaskan cities with Bellingham, Wash., which is approximately 90 minutes north of Seattle and an hour south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Ferry service to Cold Bay shuts down during the winter, but it opens up again in the spring and runs through the summer and fall.
  
  

Attractions

• Cold Bay shares its land with the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a member of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System. Although the smallest of Alaska's hundreds of wildlife refuges, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge boasts a unique ecological menu of waterways, landscapes, fish, wildlife and waterfowl.
  
  A wide variety of salmon species populate the refuge in summer and fall, and the Southern Alaska Peninsula Caribou Herd also call this acreage home. Because of its abundant natural resources, the Izembek Refuge is popular with hunters, nature lovers, adventurers and photographers.
  
  

Fun Fact

• During the summer solstice in June, Cold Bay sees more than 17 hours of daylight. Around the winter solstice, daylight in Cold Bay lasts approximately 7 hours.