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Kenai Fjords National Park
Getting Here
school bus at Exit Glacier

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Directions to Exit Glacier: Take the Seward Highway south from Anchorage (approximately 125 miles). Turn right on the Herman Leirer Road. The 9-mile road ends at the Exit Glacier parking area. The rangers will meet you at "the big rock" at the trailhead. Plan to arrive 15 minutes ahead of your scheduled program so that students have time to use the facilities.

Directions to Lowell Point:  Take the Seward Highway south from Anchorage (approximately 125 miles). Follow 3rd Avenue (this is the road the highway becomes) to the where it ends at a 'T' intersection with a stop sign and make a right on Railway Avenue. Railway becomes Lowell Point Road once you pass the big waterfall. Follow for about a mile and make a right on Martins Road. If you are traveling by bus follow PAST the state park parking lot and let kids off at the beach at road’s end. The State park asks that you then take your bus up to the Upper Parking lot off of Martins Road.

resident pod of Orca whales  

Did You Know?
“Killer Whales” or Orcas are actually quite friendly and often inquisitive about humans. In fact the group of “resident killer whales” pictured here feeds entirely on fish. Only “Transient Killer Whales” eat marine mammals. No wild killer whale has ever hurt a human being.

Last Updated: August 10, 2006 at 18:16 EST