Alaska Glaciers
There are three ways
to view a glacier in Alaska. By air, sea, or
land. There is nothing more amazing than walking
right up to the face of a glacier that you can
touch.
By sea:
Cruise liners pull close to the "rivers of ice"
in Glacier Bay National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias
National Park and Prince William Sound. Smaller
boats carry sightseers on day trips to the blue
ice of Prince William Sound and Kenai Fjords
National Park. These trips are readily available
in Valdez, Whittier and Seward. Cruises and day
trips are the way to go if you want to hear the
legendary thunder of calving glaciers and see
huge faces of blue ice.
By land:
A number of glaciers are within viewing distance
of Alaska's highways, and you can even walk up to
(and on) some of them. Alaska has several
roadside glaciers where the adventurous can park,
walk a short distance and touch the ice. Visitors
also can find themselves across a river or a lake
from a glacier. They can hike on glacial moraines
and admire the U-shaped valleys carved by these
rivers of ice.
By air:
Sightseeing trips aboard small planes and
helicopters provide both an overreaching view and
sometimes a glacier landing. Flightseeing
companies that land on the ice provide
cold-weather gear and guide you on a safe area of
the glacier.
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