Pioneer Inn

01/08/2026

❄️ Blue skies, fresh snow, and our beloved Pioneer Inn sign looking extra magical today! Hand-painted by the iconic Brad Hughes and topped with a perfect winter cap—Homer at its finest 💙✨

10/28/2025

❄️✨ First frost at the Pioneer Inn! Time to break out the down coats and Halloween costumes 🎃🧥 We’re getting ready for the annual Pioneer Avenue Trick-or-Treat, happening Halloween day from 4–6 PM!

It’s one of our favorite Homer traditions — come visit us and all the other wonderful local businesses along Pioneer Avenue for treats, smiles, and spooky fun! 👻🍬

10/02/2025

The northern lights have spoiled us three nights in a row now ✨💚💜 Dancing right above the Pioneer Inn—even in town! We’re running on very little sleep (apparently aurora chasers don’t get bedtimes 😅), but we wouldn’t trade a minute of it. Exhausted and blessed under Alaska’s most magical night show. 🌌 Big thanks to Marie and Rachel, winter Inn residents, for snapping these amazing pics! 📸 Come stay with us this winter and see the magic for yourself! ❄️✨

09/30/2025

🍂 Fall is in the air in Homer, bringing earlier sunsets… and the magical return of the aurora! ✨ Last night, the northern lights danced across the sky all night long, even right over the Pioneer Inn, here in the heart of town.

We’re open all winter for anyone wanting to experience this wonder for themselves. Come stay with us and let the magic of the aurora light up your nights. 🌌❄️

09/14/2025

🎉💐 Happiest of birthdays to our one and only Paula! 💐🎉

If you’ve stayed with us, you already know what a treasure she is. Paula is beloved by every guest who walks through our doors—her warmth, kindness, and quick smile make the Pioneer Inn feel like home. We honestly don’t know what we would do without her!

She goes above and beyond every single day, keeping everything running smoothly, caring for our guests like family, and bringing her incredible spirit and energy into everything she does. Paula, you’re more than just part of the team—you are the heart of it. 💛

Here’s to celebrating you today! May your year ahead be as bright, joyful, and beautiful as you are. 🥳✨

09/13/2025

The bonfire and homecoming parade lit up Homer tonight—what an amazing community celebration! 🔥🎉

But we’re not done yet… tomorrow at 2 PM, it’s game time! 🏈 Homer High takes on Houston in the big Homecoming showdown. 💙💛

Let’s fill the stands, cheer loud, and show our Mariners all the hometown love they deserve! ⚓️🙌

09/13/2025

09/11/2025

🌟 The Pioneer Inn is excited to invite you to join us on September 18th at 3:30 PM at Land’s End Resort to welcome Lady JB Owen and Peter Giesin as they complete their extraordinary mission—to become the first tandem cycling team in history to conquer 305,000+ feet of elevation gain across North America. 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

Starting in Cabo San Lucas on June 15th, they’ve cycled 9,100 km over 81 days, climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest ten times—and they’ll finish right here at the end of the Homer Spit! 🌊🏔️

But this is more than a world record attempt.
It’s a call to rise.

Every meter climbed represents the uphill battles children face daily in their pursuit of education. JB and Peter are riding not for applause, but for access—to raise awareness and funds for Inspiration Classrooms: modular, eco-conscious, solar-powered learning spaces for kids in underserved communities worldwide. 🌍📚✨

Their elevation gain isn’t just measured in feet.
It’s measured in futures.

👉 Learn more about their journey at their website, and come cheer them on with us as Homer becomes the final chapter of this incredible adventure.

“We’re not climbing for glory. We’re climbing because education should never be out of reach.” – Lady JB Owen

💙 From all of us at the Pioneer Inn—let’s give them the warm Homer welcome they deserve!

09/08/2025

✨ Tonight, Homer gathered for one of our most cherished autumn traditions — the 22nd Annual Burning Basket at Mariner Park. ✨

This year’s basket, created under the vision of local installation artist Mavis Muller, carried the theme “OPEN – Basket of Remembrance & Unburdening.” All week long, community members of all ages helped weave, decorate, and create the spiral walking path beside it — from Fireweed Academy students gathering treasures from the beach, to seniors from the Homer Senior Center lending their hands and hearts. Together, they built something magical.

As the sun set, messages of remembrance, words of release, blessings, and hopes — some visible, others tucked gently inside — were given to the flames. The fire carried them upward, symbolizing release and renewal, an offering of positive intention to the future.

Mavis always reminds us that the basket is more than art to witness — it’s an invitation to participate, to open our hearts, to connect with each other, and to embrace impermanence.

Tonight, with drumming, fire spinning, and the glow of the flames, we were reminded once again of the strength, creativity, and interconnectedness that makes Homer so special.

From all of us at the Pioneer Inn, thank you to everyone who helped create, share, and celebrate this beautiful autumn tradition. 🌙🔥❤️

09/04/2025

🎉🐾 The Pioneer Inn family would like to wish our feisty, fun, energetic, smart, animal-loving niece Ayla a very Happy 1st Birthday! 🐾🎉

What a joy it has been to get to know you this past year. You’ve filled our days with tail wags, zoomies, slobbery kisses, and endless laughter. 💕

Here’s to many more playful, snuggly, treat-filled, tail-chasing, ball-fetching, squirrel-spotting, belly-rub kind of years ahead. Keep being your brave, silly, curious, pawsitively amazing self, Ayla! 🐶✨ Reach for the stars and chase every ball — we know you’ll always get there! 🌟🎂🐾