Kenai Fjords National Park matters because it preserves a rare, living laboratory of the last Ice Age where you can witness massive retreating glaciers, a 700-square-mile icefield, and rich marine ecosystems in real time.
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Kenai Fjords National Park
Kenai Fjords National Park offers hiking, kayaking, and the opportunity to see a glacier up close.
State(s): Alaska
Established: 1980
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Greetings from Kenai Fjords National Park
BECOMING NUNATAKS! Three friends and I got together in 1992 and took a trip to New England. We toured historic Boston and hiked through the beautiful mountains of New Hampshire. It was an invigorating and fun way to see the area. We all agreed we would like to do…
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Greetings from Kenai Fjords National Park
The Alaskan national park sites are rather inaccessible, but we found a bit of an exception in Kenai Fjords, and nearby Seward makes for a very hospitable home base. Several tour companies offer boat tours to see a wide variety of marine wildlife and the massive headwall of tidewater glaciers.…
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