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Guidebook for Alaska Adventure Travel |
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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.
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