Glacier Bay National Park Tours
Bounded by the temperate rainforest of Southeast Alaska, the magnificent expanse of Glacier Bay National Park offers one of the last unspoiled destinations in the American Northwest.
Spilling out of the mountains, sixteen gigantic tidewater glaciers fill the sea with icebergs of all imaginable shapes, sizes and shades of blue. Muir Inlet offers a stunning expedition through a channel that leads to the heart of the ice pack — the McBride Glacier. Here one can witness the spectacular scene of calving glaciers, where the ancient fragments break away with a thunderous crack and plummet into the bay in a shroud of deep-blue spray.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is most easily seen by boat or plane where one can appreciate the vastness of its natural beauty. Whether viewed by wing or rudder, an amphibious landscape of ice-scoured fjords, green valleys, beaches, straits and islands awaits you.
The only road in the park runs 10 miles between Bartlett Cove and Gustavus Alaska. Though limited in development, this lack of road travel has been a benefit to animal populations in the Glacier Bay National Park and has served to protect the integrity of the surrounding wilderness. Seven miles of trails wind along the beaches and through the rainforest of spruce and hemlock in the Bartlett Cove area. These old-growth forests nurture a flourishing habitat for soaring bald eagles to nest and bear and moose to roam.
