Tag Archives: Pillar Mountain

View from the top of Pillar. (Photo by naql/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT After the City of Kodiak’s gate to Pillar Mountain was stolen sometime around April Fools day, it’s been a mystery where the gate disappeared too. Well, until earlier this week. Recently, while on patrol, the Kodiak Police Department animal control officer spotted a large metal gate in Mission Lake. …

Since the metal gate was stolen, the road is clear for cars to drive up Pillar Mountain. But, the Kodiak Police Department says the road is still not safe to drive on. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT Even though the road leading up Pillar Mountain is technically closed to traffic, motorists will find the path unblocked. That’s because over …

Pillar Mountain gravel pit, center, from Google Earth. The gravel quarry about a half-mile beyond the City of Kodiak’s water treatment plant on Pillar Mountain Road could soon see a re-purposing. Action taken at Thursday’s city council meeting authorized a contract with engineers to design a way to use the site as a spot for clean construction fill – that …