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Ranger with visitors at map board — Let's get you connected with Kenai Fjords.
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Discover Your Park

Kenai Fjords can be divided into three main areas; Exit Glacier, the coastal fjords, and the Harding Icefield. Each provides visitors with very different opportunities to experience and explore this place where mountains, ice, and ocean meet.

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Exit Glacier Area

Located just 12 miles outside of the community of Seward and accessible by road, the Exit Glacier Area is the easiest part of the park to visit. There are several short trails to the terminus of Exit Glacier and daily ranger programs are offered in summer at the Exit Glacier Nature Center.

Winter season: During the winter months, the road to the Exit Glacier Area is very popular with snowmobiles and sleds dog tours, as the road is not plowed. Visitors can books rides on a snowcoach, and snowshoe or cross-country ski the trails.

Small pieces of glacial ice along a stream coming from a glacier in the distance

The Exit Glacier area is the only part of the park accessible by road. Witness up close how a glacier re-shapes a landscape.

A ranger holds out a postcard with glacier behind

Join a park ranger on a journey to deepen your connection to Kenai Fjords' beautiful, changing landscape.

Exit Glacier has 12 first-come first-served tent sites in summer.

A fat tire bike along a snow-covered road

Discover what winter holds at Kenai Fjords National Park. A Public Use Cabin is also available in winter at Exit Glacier.

A ranger talks with a visitor from behind the desk

Learn about how glaciers are formed, go over your hiking plans with a ranger, find your stamp, and do a little shopping.

The Coastal Fjords

Boat tours, operated by several local companies, are great ways to experience the park's coastline, tidewater glaciers, and to see both marine mammals and seabirds. For those who want to explore under their own power, kayaking is also a great way to see the wonders of Kenai Fjords. Two coastal public use cabins, and a wide assortment of camping and landing beaches are available, too.

Local boat companies seek playful wildlife and calving glaciers along Kenai Fjords' rugged coastline.

Two kayaks on icy water with a glacier beyond

By dipping your paddle into these waters, you're participating in the long history of human powered travel along the Kenai Peninsula coast.

Finding your own way along the coast? Make sure you are properly prepared.

Two people stand in front of a cabin in a forest

Want a roof over your head? Two public use cabins in Aialik Bay are available for reservation in summer.

An aerial view of a lodge in a forest along the coast

Some land along Kenai Fjords coastline is owned by Port Graham Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation. See if you need a land use permit.

The Harding Icefield

The park's dominant feature, and one of the major reasons for the creation of Kenai Fjords National Park. Many visitors hike to the edge of the ice field via the Harding Icefield Trail. While the Harding Icefield itself is somewhat harder to access, a scenic overflight will give you a sense of its vast size.