Exit Glacier is the only part of the park accessible by road. Here you can stroll the trails, walk very close to an active glacier, or take a ranger-led walk. It is a place where you can witness up close how glaciers re-shape a landscape and learn how plant life reclaims the barren rocky land exposed by a glacier’s retreat.
From the Nature Center we took a .6 mile trail through the cottonwood forest to Glacier View, a panoramic view of Exit Glacier spilling down from the Harding Icefield. Getting to the toe of the Glacier required crossing the rocky outwash plain. This area is sometimes not accessible due to frequent floods and there is no set trail across the outwash plain. We were lucky as the water levels were low and were able to make it to the toe of Exit Glacier.
Note the dirty ice - this is from the volcanic ash from Redoubt.
Exit Glacier is the only part of the park accessible by road. Here you can stroll the trails, walk very close to an active glacier, or take a ranger-led walk. It is a place where you can witness up close how glaciers re-shape a landscape and learn how plant life reclaims the barren rocky land exposed by a glacier’s retreat.
From the Nature Center we took a .6 mile trail through the cottonwood forest to Glacier View, a panoramic view of Exit Glacier spilling down from the Harding Icefield. Getting to the toe of the Glacier required crossing the rocky outwash plain. This area is sometimes not accessible due to frequent floods and there is no set trail across the outwash plain. We were lucky as the water levels were low and were able to make it to the toe of Exit Glacier.
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