Rainbow Tours
Rainbow Tours is an attraction, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Iceworm Peak stands 1,524 m to the east, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Alaska Bear Viewing Tours, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Sterling Highway runs past it. 49 named places lie within 25 miles, 14 of them named summits.
Wildlife Viewing and Halibut Fishing Tours
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the Sterling Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Beluga Wetlands Overlook · 4 mi
- Baycrest Overlook · 8 mi
49 named places within 25 miles
- Seafarers Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
- Alaska Centennial Coal Point: 0.3 mi
- End Of The Road Park: 0.5 mi
- Benjamin O. Walters Sr. Memorial Park: 4.4 mi
- Jeffery Park: 4.6 mi
- Sadie Knob: 5.6 mi
- Lookout Mountain: 7.5 mi
- Grace Ridge: 8.2 mi
- Ohlson Mountain: 8.7 mi
- Sadie Peak: 10.0 mi
- Alaska Bear Viewing Tours: 0.0 mi
- Alaska Ultimate Safaris: 4.4 mi
- Alaska Bear Tours: 4.4 mi
- Alaska Bear Adventures: 4.4 mi
- Old Town: 4.9 mi
- Bishop's Beach: 5.4 mi
- Kayak Beach: 7.3 mi
- Outside Beach: 14.5 mi
- Inside Beach: 15.0 mi
- Whiskey Gulch Beach: 21.1 mi
- Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies: 4.6 mi
- Alaska Islands & Oceans NWR Visitor Center: 4.9 mi
- Pratt Museum: 5.3 mi
- Seldovia Village Tribe Museum: 15.2 mi
- Carl E. Wynn Nature Center: 5.9 mi
- Kachemak Bay State Park: 16.7 mi
- Jakolof Falls: 12.1 mi
- Tutka Falls: 13.2 mi
- Seafarer's Memorial: 0.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rainbow Tours. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iceworm Peak | E 89° | 1,524 m | 22.0 mi |
| Needle Peak | ESE 106° | 1,371 m | 22.9 mi |
| Sadie Peak | SSE 155° | 1,317 m | 10.0 mi |
| Graduation Peak | SSW 207° | 1,102 m | 14.8 mi |
| Red Mountain | S 186° | 1,074 m | 17.1 mi |
| Mount Mills | S 189° | 977 m | 23.7 mi |
| Grace Ridge | S 173° | 946 m | 8.2 mi |
| Poot Peak | ESE 121° | 762 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 08:08 | 19:26 | 20:20 |
| June solstice | 04:47 | 22:12 | 23:30 |
| September equinox | 07:51 | 19:13 | 20:07 |
| December solstice | 10:05 | 14:06 | 16:04 |
Local time (America/Anchorage).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 28 | 30 | 39 | 46 | 52 | 56 | 55 | 50 | 40 | 31 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Homer AP, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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