Glacier Bay Lodge & Tours | Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Located beneath the spruce trees that line Bartlett Cove, Glacier Bay Lodge offers the only hotel accommodations within the park.
Glacier Bay Tours provides an up-close view of marine and coastal wildlife alongside massive glaciers from aboard a high speed catamaran.
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Glacier Bay National Park is a 3.3 million acre US National Park that is located in southeast Alaska, a bit west of Juneau. Glacier Bay was formed by a large glacier that retreated 65 miles over the last 250 years -- creating a spectacular collection of inlets and breathtaking glaciers -- and it can only be accessed by plane or boat.
According to the National Park Service, Glacier Bay National Park -- which should not be confused with Glacier National Park in northwest Montana -- is home to 1,045 glaciers. The longest glacier is Grand Pacific Glacier and the fastest moving glacier is Johns Hopkins Glacier.
Both glaciers were part of our visit to Glacier Bay National Park while sailing the Holland America Nieuw Amsterdam with our little JellyBean during our Alaskan cruise in late May of 2019.
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Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, United States - Best Travel Destination
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in the Alaska panhandle west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monument under the Antiquities Act on February 25, 1925. Subsequent to an expansion of the monument by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) enlarged the national monument by 523,000 acres (2116.5 km²) on December 2, 1980 and in the process created Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, with 57,000 additional acres (230.7 km²) of public land designated as national preserve to the immediate northwest of the park in order to protect a portion of the Alsek River and related fish and wildlife habitats while allowing sport hunting.
Highlights of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
You have finally booked a cruise that includes a day at Glacier Bay National Park. You get there, find it exciting, take a few photos, only to return home and find what you missed. This video will alert you as to what the park is like, points of interest, and will allow you to be aware of the geographic landmarks.
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GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS | Glacier Bay Lodge | PBS
Wednesday, July 2 at 8:00 p.m. (check local listings) GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS takes viewers inside the treasured historic lodges that grace America’s national parks. In this segment, learn about the wilderness that surrounds Alaska’s Glacier Bay Lodge and what makes it special. For more, go to
Glacier Bay National Park
Recorded June 21, 2007.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is located in the southern part of Alaska west of Juneau. The park area was included in an International Biosphere Reserve in 1986 and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park covers 5,130 square miles. Most of the park is a designated wilderness area which covers 4,164 square miles of the park. No roads lead to the park and it is most easily reached by air travel. During some summers there are ferries to the small community of Gustavus or directly to the marina at Bartlett Cove. Despite the lack of roads, there are over 300,000 visitors per year, most on cruise ships. Glaciers descending from high snow capped mountains into the bay create spectacular displays of ice and iceberg formation. In the last century the bays most famous glacier was probably the Muir Glacier, at one time nearly 2 miles wide and about 265 feet tall. The Muir Glacier has receded and since the 1990s is no longer tidewater. Most visitors today see the Margerie and Lamplugh Glaciers.
This video covers my visit to the national park on the Sapphire Princess. Most of the video is of the Lamplugh Glacier, the John Hopkins Inlet and Margerie Glacier.
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A video of the Margerie Glacier in Tarr Inlet of Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve in southeast Alaska. August 29, 2012. A nice big chunk calves off at about the 14 second mark.
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Check out this great trail in Glacier Bay National Park. This video was created by Glacier Bay National Park.
“Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is in the Alaska panhandle west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monumentunder the Antiquities Act on February 25, 1925.[3] Subsequent to an expansion of the monument by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) enlarged the national monument by 523,000 acres (2116.5 km2) on December 2, 1980 and in the process created Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve,[4] with 57,000 additional acres (230.7 km2) of public land designated as national preserve to the immediate northwest of the park in order to protect a portion of the Alsek River and related fish and wildlife habitats while allowing sport hunting.
“Glacier Bay became part of a binational UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, was inscribed as a Biosphere Reserve in 1986 and in 1994 undertook an obligation to work with Hoonah and Yakutat Tlingit Native American organizations in the management of the protected area.[5] In total the park and preserve cover 5,130 square miles (13,287 km2). Most of Glacier Bay is designated wilderness area which covers 4,164 square miles (10,784 km2).”
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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is in the Alaska panhandle west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monument under the Antiquities Act on February 25, 1925. Subsequent to an expansion of the monument by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) enlarged the national monument by 523,000 acres (2116.5 km2) on December 2, 1980 and in the process created Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, with 57,000 additional acres (230.7 km2) of public land designated as national preserve to the immediate northwest of the park in order to protect a portion of the Alsek River and related fish and wildlife habitats while allowing sport hunting.
Glacier Bay became part of a binational UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, was inscribed as a Biosphere Reserve in 1986 and in 1994 undertook an obligation to work with Hoonah and Yakutat Tlingit Native American organizations in the management of the protected area. In total the park and preserve cover 5,130 square miles (13,287 km2). Most of Glacier Bay is designated wilderness area which covers 4,164 square miles (10,784 km2).
Location: Hoonah-Angoon Census Area and Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
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About 80% of visitors to Glacier Bay arrive on cruise ships. The National Park Service operates cooperative programs where rangers provide interpretive services aboard the ships and on the smaller boats that offer excursion trips to more distant park features. In-park accommodations are available at the Glacier Bay Lodge. The park and preserve hosts many outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, mountaineering, kayaking, rafting, fishing, and bird-watching. Unlike many other national parks in Alaska, subsistence hunting is not allowed in the park, only in the preserve.
Sport hunting and trapping are also allowed in the preserve. To hunt and trap, you must have all required licenses and permits and follow all other state regulations. The National Park Service and the State of Alaska cooperatively manage the wildlife resources of the preserve. Campers and hunters should be aware that brown bears are common in the preserve and be prepared to avoid conflicts with them. Typically hunted species in the preserve include black bears, mountain goats, wolves, wolverines, snowshoe hare, ptarmigans, waterfowls and a number of furbearers. There is one big game hunting guide authorized through concession contracts to operate within Glacier Bay National Preserve. Three lodges and one outfitter can provide transportation and services for fishing and hunting small game and waterfowl.
Sport fishing is another activity popular in the park. Halibut are frequently esteemed by deep-sea fishers and in rivers and lakes Dolly Varden and rainbow trout provide sport. An Alaskan sportfishing license is required for all nonresidents 16 and older, and residents 16–59, to fish in Alaska's fresh and salt waters.
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As a result of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), 80,000,000 acres (32,000,000 ha) of Alaskan public lands were eligible for inclusion in the national park system. Studies for expansion of Glacier Bay focused on the area around the Alsek River. Facing an approaching deadline imposed by ANCSA to resolve land allotment and seeing delays in the proposed Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in Congress that was intended to make a final settlement, President Jimmy Carter used his authority under the Antiquities Act to proclaim fifteen National Park Service units in Alaska on December 1, 1978. The proclamation also expanded Glacier Bay National Monument to include the Alsek lands. The final ANILCA legislation, signed into law by Carter on December 2, 1980, established Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve from the national monument. The Alsek addition comprised the bulk of the preserve lands. The chief distinction between park and preserve lands is that sport hunting by non-residents is permitted in accordance with Alaskan game regulations in the preserve, but prohibited in the park.
Glacier Bay National Park Alaska (Reid, John Hopkins and Margerie Glaciers)
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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, AK, USA
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, AK, USA
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Glacier Bay National Park Tour
One of several national parks in Alaska, Glacier Bay National Park rests in Southeast Alaska in the heart of the famed Inside Passage. Unfortunately, other than a road to the visitor center and lodge there are no roads that traverse the park. Therefore, many opt to hop aboard boats like this one that departs daily from Bartlett Cove.
On a normal day visitors are treated to encounters with humpback whales, mountain goats, bald eagles, wolves, stellar sea lions, sea otters, black and grizzly bears and puffins and other wildlife. Meanwhile, glaciers tend to capture the biggest smiles.
The tour commences at Bartlett Cove in front of Glacier Bay Lodge and heads up the Sitakaday Narrows towards Strawberry and Willoughby Island. It then passes South and North Marble Islands, where stellar sea lions and puffins awe visitors. Continuing on deeper into Glacier Bay face of Gloomy Knob and Mt Abdallah bring the chance of spotting bears and mountain goats. From here the boat cruises into the Tarr Inlet where two glaciers, the Grand Pacific and Margerie, is found.
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Glacier Bay National Park
Reid Glacier is one of many glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, that is retreating. This glacier has retreated two miles over the last 100 years. Willows, alder and cottonwood trees grow on nearby slopes that were covered in ice a century ago.
Each year the glacier grows thinner because of warmer year round temperatures and increased melting of ice. debbiemilleralaska.com