Golf in Cold Bay

Cold Bay is a remote Aleutians East Borough community at the tip of the Alaska Peninsula, a place defined by its isolation, its weather, and its role as a gateway to the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The community is accessible only by air, receives more than its share of the Aleutian Peninsula's famously difficult weather, and supports a small permanent population supplemented by refuge workers, hunters, and researchers. That Cold Bay has a golf course at all reflects the American tradition of finding ways to play the game in the most unlikely circumstances, adapting the sport to an environment that challenges the conventional assumptions about where and when golf belongs.