Some face lifting has taken place. Rumors can be heard about big plans for new hotels designed to serve a popular resort destination. For Sale signs are posted on vacant lots along busy thoroughfares. Nevertheless, Homer still bears the appearance of a frontier town. Log buildings can be seen downtown.
Many frame buildings have roots in the early part of the last century.
There is the feeling that things haven t changed all that much since a road was pushed through more than 50 years ago. Its main street is called Pioneer Avenue. Main Street, as a matter of fact, is a side street linking Pioneer with the Homer Bypass, an extension of the Sterling Highway that takes visitors directly to the Homer Spit, The Spit is a narrow string of land that reaches five miles out into Kachemak Bay. It serves as a natural breakwater and shelters the harbor. Homer has a large small boat harbor.