Port & Harbor

No reservations are accepted. Camp sites are first come first served basis.

You must visit the library and apply for a library card in person (though you may pre-register online). Please be sure to bring proof of identity, residency, and mailing address to the library in order to finalize your application. A list of acceptable items for ID/residence/address is available on our Library Card Registration Policy. General Delivery is not an acceptable address for a permanent card.

A parent or guardian must apply for a juvenile (person under 18 years of age) card in person.

Not a full-time resident?  Don't have a permanent mailing address?  Just visiting?  Drop by the front desk and ask staff about library card options, or read about Temporary Library Cards on our Library Card Registration Policy.

If you're interested in reserving the meeting room, please read the Meeting Room Regulations. If your group meets the requirements, please fill out the Meeting Room Request Form online, scan a downloadable form, or drop by the library to fill out a form in person. If staff approve the request, you will be contacted by phone or email.

The library offers free use of the meeting room for meetings and programs that serve an educational, cultural, civic, or recreational purpose.  Meetings and programs must be free and open to the public, non-commercial, and scheduled during open hours.  The meeting room is intended for specific events rather than for regularly scheduled, ongoing meetings.

Learn more about the library's Meeting Room

You are allowed to have an "eyebrow" on the front windshield that cannot extend more than 5" from the top of the glass.

The driver and front passenger side windows may have tinting material that permits at least 70 percent light transmittance; the rear door windows may have tinting material that permits at least 40 percent light transmittance. 

The windows of a vehicle may have tinting material that permits less light transmittance than that previously specified if; a driver or a passenger who frequently travels in the vehicle is required for medical reasons to be shielded from the direct rays of the sun; the medical reasons are certified annually by a physician licensed to practice in this state; and the certification is carried in the vehicle. 

Tinting materials must be green, gray, bronze, or neutral smoke in color, or a sun reflective auto file.

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Yes, the Homer Police Department has a drop box inside the main entrance at 4060 Heath Street. Drop off unused, unwanted pills, bottles, tubes and/or patches (with personal prescription information removed).  The drop box is open anytime day or night, 365 days a year, no questions asked. The service is free and anonymous. And, it's easy.  

Do your part to reduce the potential for pill abuse and theft and prevent drugs from entering and contaminating our water and soils. Flushing meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash pose significant safety and health hazards. 

Visiting hours are from 2:00pm to 5:00pm seven days per week.  Usually, the duration of visits will not by restricted unless other prisoners are waiting for the use of the visitation room; in which case visitation may be limited to 15 minutes. It is recommended that visitors arrive early if they wish to maximize their potential visitation opportunities.

General prisoner visitation is open to family and friends, and any other person(s) authorized by specific court order.  Visitation will be denied to anyone under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or any person suspected as a security concern.  Minors (under the age of 18) may visit only if accompanied with an adult.

All visitors must show valid ID and are subject to search. 

The prohibition on travel between communities is designed so that people must use the closest available services to fulfill critical personal needs. Common sense applies – normal usage of location names and understanding of geographic separation applies when asking about community boundaries.  For instance, Homer, Anchor Point, and Seldovia are all separate communities. You may only travel to another community for critical personal needs if you cannot meet those needs in your community.  And if you can get it delivered, choose that option instead.

Outdoor activity near your home is encouraged for your health and well-being. Alaskans are encouraged to recreate as close to home as possible, but if you must travel out of your community for recreation you are expected to take precautions, including: bring your own cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer; maintain social distancing of six feet or more from any non-household member; take the most direct routes and go straight to trailheads, parking lots, cabin or camping site; and avoiding contact with non-household members. When engaging in outdoor recreation, you must comply with social distancing requirements, including maintaining at least six feet distance from people who do not live in your immediate household.

Social distancing requirements are in effect on paths, trails, sidewalks, riverbanks, beaches, parks, and anyplace outside on private or public property where people might gather. Crowds of 10 people or more are prohibited, even if you are at an outdoor location. You are not prohibited from driving to recreation sites, but you must stay six feet away from non-household members, and are requested to stay in your community.

If your plan includes holding an event, in whole or in part on public property or on private property, and it affects the ordinary use of public streets, right-of-ways, park facilities, sidewalks or may require additional city services than would normally be provided (such as police escorts, traffic control, sanitation, and cleanup work required to support the event), you may need a special event permit.

Use the interactive questionnaire above to help you identify if a permit is needed and what kind.

• Long Term Parking Permits are for people storing vehicles on the spit: they let you park for more than 7 days at a time, between January 1st and December 31st of the same year in any lot that allows a Long Term Parking Permit.
• The Seasonal Fee-Pay Parking Permit is for people who come and go regularly from the spit and want to use the paid lots without paying daily. It is valid for the whole paid parking season - from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Even if you have a permit, the long-term parking limit in the lots applies - your car can't stay parked in one spot for more than 7 days.

Tenants in the harbor receive two discounted Long Term Parking Permits at $100 each.

If you'd like to purchase your permit through the online portal, you will need the account number attached to the boat that is in the harbor. You can find your account number on your monthly bill or call the office at (907)235-3160.

There is no discount on the Seasonal Fee Pay Permits for tenants.

Any boat that does not have current proof of insurance on file will not be permitted to purchase moorage at the monthly, semi-annual, or annual rates.

Of course! You can purchase any parking permit on the Homer Spit through the portal, except for the daily fee pay parking.

Daily fee pay parking must be purchased at the kiosk on site or by following the link posted on the kiosk. 

You have a boat to catch, we get it. As long as you know your license plate number, you can pay by phone.

1. Text the number 25023
2. In the message type PARKHOMER

You will then receive a text with a link. Follow that link to input your vehicle information, contact information, and specify how many days you need to purchase. Then it will provide you with information to pay online.

The requirement applies to all harbor users, even those who do not moor their boats overnight in the harbor. At this point, we are not tracking proof of insurance for users at the launch ramp.

At the top of Ramps 1 through 4, and at the top of the Steel Grid parking lot, signage designates "1 hour parking", designed in mind of those who need to load and unload gear from their boats quickly.

A waiver of subrogation is a contract provision that prohibits an insurance company from seeking compensation from a negligent third party after paying a claim to the insured. (Definition courtesy of Investopedia)

Please notify the office of the accident, exchange insurance, and work with the other party and their insurance to resolve the issue.