Golf in Palmer

Palmer is the borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the largest borough by land area in the United States, a community whose origins as the center of the 1935 Matanuska Colony give it a historic character distinct from the resource-extraction towns that dot Alaska's interior. The colonial project brought hundreds of families from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin to homestead the Matanuska Valley, creating an agricultural community in an otherwise wilderness landscape. Palmer's historic character—preserved in its downtown commercial district and the colony-era farmsteads that still operate in the valley—combines with its role as the Mat-Su Borough's governmental center to create a community where Palmer Municipal Golf Course serves a stable local population and the growing commuter population of the broader valley.