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Map of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska along the Pacific coast. The blue waters of Glacier Bay cut into the park from the southeast, cleaving the mainland into two main arms with inlets making ragged borders. Dozens of mountains, glaciers, forests, peaks, islands, waterways, and other points are labeled in and around the park.

Extended Description

Mountainous terrain shown in white covers most of the park area, which is edged with shades of green in the lowlands along the coasts. Bound by the British Columbia border to the north, the park spreads out to the Takhinsha Mountains and Chilkat Range in the east as it moves south. A green outline marking its perimeter is edged in dark green around the coasts where its boundaries stretch into the waterways to the west and south. A black box around the Glacial Bay region has a note reading “Enlarged area at right.”

Two mountain ranges span the park in the west, with the Saint Elias Mountains in the north and the Fairweather Range in the south. Here, the Brady Icefield and Brady Glacier cover most of the landmass between the Pacific coast to the west and Glacier Bay to the east. Other prominent glaciers include Alsek and Fairweather in the northwest and Carroll Glacier to the east.

Within the park, sites are clustered in the northwest corner and along the southeast coast. In the north, a green wedge of land outlined in darker green is Glacier Bay National Preserve with the Dry Bay Ranger Station, two airstrips, campgrounds, and a public use cabin. The preserve sits along the west coast where the Alsek River, which curves around a knob of land to the east formed by the Brabazon Range, flows into Dry Bay in the west-northwest.

Glaciers, bays, capes, and harbors line the western edge of Glacier Bay National Park. More glaciers, peninsulas, inlets, covers, and narrows line the two fingers of land on either side of Glacier Bay. The Visitor Center Glacier Bay Lodge with campgrounds is at Gustavus Point on the southwest tip of the inner finger.

Chichagof Island is south of Glacier Bay across the Icy Straight. Lynn Canal cuts into the landscape on the eastern side of the Chilkat Range. Tongass National Forest and State Routes 7, 3, and 98 travel inland at the upper right corner of the map.

Legend

A scale at the bottom center of the map measures distances of 5, 10, and 15 kilometers and 5, 10, and 15 miles.

A legend below shows a curved blue line number 1860 for Historic extent of glaciation and a tent symbol for Campground.