Kenai Fjords National Park Glaciers

View of Aialik Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward, Alaska | Chansak Joe

Glaciers define Kenai Fjords National Park more than almost any other natural feature. Rivers of ice spill from the enormous Harding Icefield, filling mountain valleys, ending in turquoise lakes, and reaching directly into the ocean along Alaska’s rugged Gulf of Alaska coast.

Nearly 51 percent of Kenai Fjords National Park remains covered by ice, and at least 38 glaciers flow from the Harding Icefield. Some end on land, others terminate in glacial lakes, and several reach the sea as spectacular tidewater glaciers. Together, they continue shaping the mountains, valleys, fjords, rivers, and coastal ecosystems that give the park its character.

Visitors can experience Kenai Fjords’ glaciers in several very different ways. Exit Glacier is accessible by road and short hiking trails. The Harding Icefield Trail climbs high above the valleys for an extraordinary view across the icefield itself. Along the coast, boat trips from Seward reach tidewater glaciers where enormous sections of ice may calve into the sea.

From easily accessible Exit Glacier to remote Northwestern Glacier, Kenai Fjords offers one of the finest opportunities in the National Park System to see glaciers and understand how ice continues to reshape Alaska.

⚡ Kenai Fjords Glacier Fast Facts

Major icefield: Harding Icefield
Icefield size: Roughly 700 square miles
Glaciers flowing from the Harding Icefield: At least 38
Park covered by ice: Nearly 51 percent
Longest glacier in the park: Bear Glacier
Most accessible glacier: Exit Glacier
Famous tidewater glaciers: Aialik, Holgate, and Northwestern glaciers
Major lake-terminating glacier: Bear Glacier
Major land-terminating glacier: Exit Glacier
Primary glacier access points: Exit Glacier area and boat trips from Seward
Harding Icefield Trail: About 8 miles round trip
Best general visiting season: June through August
Major glacier hazards: Calving ice, waves, crevasses, unstable ice, cold water, outburst floods, and rapidly changing weather

🧊 The Harding Icefield

The Harding Icefield is the source of most of the glaciers that make Kenai Fjords National Park famous.

Spread across roughly 700 square miles of Alaska’s Kenai Mountains, the icefield is a remnant of the enormous masses of ice that covered much of south-central Alaska during the Pleistocene Epoch. Its origins extend back more than 23,000 years.

Unlike an ice sheet such as those covering Greenland and Antarctica, an icefield does not completely bury the underlying mountains. Peaks protrude through the ice in places, creating rocky islands known as nunataks.

From this elevated reservoir of snow and ice, glaciers flow outward in many directions.

Some descend toward the Gulf of Alaska and reach the ocean. Others flow toward lakes or terminate in valleys on land. This creates an unusually varied collection of glaciers within a relatively compact region.

The Harding Icefield is thousands of feet thick in places and remains the dominant physical feature of Kenai Fjords.

❄️ How the Harding Icefield Forms Glaciers

Kenai Fjords has the ingredients necessary to maintain enormous glaciers: abundant snowfall, cool summers, and mountainous terrain steep enough for ice to flow downhill under its own weight.

Moist air moving inland from the Gulf of Alaska releases extraordinary quantities of precipitation as it rises over the Kenai Mountains. The Harding Icefield receives an average of roughly 60 feet of snow each year.

Not all of that winter snow melts during summer.

As layer after layer accumulates, the weight compresses older snow. Air spaces diminish, snow crystals change shape, and the material gradually becomes dense glacial ice.

The transformation from fresh snow to glacial ice takes years.

Once the accumulating ice becomes sufficiently thick, gravity causes it to move. What may appear from a distance to be a frozen, motionless landscape is actually flowing.

These slow-moving rivers of ice are Kenai Fjords’ glaciers.

🧊 Different Types of Glaciers in Kenai Fjords

One of the fascinating things about Kenai Fjords is that visitors can see several types of glaciers within the same park.

Valley glaciers flow through mountain valleys confined by surrounding slopes. Exit Glacier is an excellent example.

Tidewater glaciers descend all the way to the ocean, where their fronts meet seawater and periodically release ice through calving. Aialik Glacier is one of the best-known examples.

Lake-terminating glaciers end in bodies of freshwater. Bear Glacier now terminates in a large proglacial lagoon.

Hanging glaciers remain high on steep mountain slopes, often appearing like frozen waterfalls clinging to cliffs.

Cirque glaciers occupy bowl-shaped basins high in the mountains.

Together, these forms demonstrate how terrain, elevation, temperature, snowfall, and access to the ocean influence the behavior of moving ice.

🏔️ Exit Glacier

Exit Glacier is the easiest glacier to visit in Kenai Fjords National Park and the only major glacier area in the park accessible by road.

Located a short drive from Seward, the Exit Glacier area includes a nature center and a network of hiking trails ranging from short walks to the strenuous Harding Icefield Trail.

Exit Glacier flows down from the Harding Icefield through a broad U-shaped valley carved by earlier ice.

For generations, the glacier extended much farther down this valley. As the terminus retreated, it exposed rock, gravel, and sediment that plants gradually began colonizing.

Visitors can therefore see not only a glacier but also the landscape that ice leaves behind.

The surrounding valley has become one of the park’s clearest demonstrations of glacial retreat and ecological succession.

🚶 Visiting Exit Glacier

Several trails begin near the Exit Glacier Nature Center.

The Glacier View Loop offers an accessible route through forest to a panoramic view of Exit Glacier. Visitors wanting a somewhat closer look can continue toward the Exit Glacier Overlook.

The paths also pass through terrain that was once beneath the glacier.

Signs and dated markers help visitors understand how dramatically the ice has retreated over time. Walking toward the modern glacier becomes, in effect, a walk backward through the recent history of the valley.

Cottonwoods and other trees dominate areas exposed longer ago, while younger surfaces closer to recently glaciated terrain support earlier stages of plant succession.

Our guide to the plants of Kenai Fjords National Park explores this transformation in more detail.

🥾 The Harding Icefield Trail

The Harding Icefield Trail provides the most accessible opportunity to look across the icefield itself.

Beginning near Exit Glacier, the trail climbs approximately four miles one way through forest, shrubland, alpine meadows, and increasingly barren mountain terrain.

By the time hikers reach the upper portion of the trail, the landscape has changed completely.

Instead of looking toward a single glacier from the valley, hikers can gaze across a vast expanse of snow and ice flowing between distant mountain peaks.

The approximately eight-mile round-trip hike is strenuous, with significant elevation gain and rapidly changing weather. Snow can persist along higher portions of the route well into summer.

For hikers prepared for the challenge, however, the Harding Icefield Trail is one of the finest day hikes in Alaska.

You can find more options in our guide to the best hikes in Kenai Fjords National Park.

🐻 Bear Glacier

Bear Glacier is the longest glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park.

Located relatively close to Seward, it flows from the Harding Icefield toward the coast but now terminates in a large proglacial lagoon rather than directly in the ocean.

Icebergs calved from Bear Glacier float across the lagoon, creating one of the park’s most unusual glacier landscapes.

The glacier has undergone substantial retreat and thinning. As it withdrew, the lagoon between the glacier and its moraine expanded.

That changing environment has also created recreational opportunities. Experienced paddlers and guided groups sometimes explore Bear Glacier Lagoon by kayak or stand-up paddleboard.

Despite its beauty, this is a hazardous environment requiring considerable caution.

🧊 Bear Glacier Lagoon

Bear Glacier Lagoon is filled with icebergs ranging from relatively small fragments to enormous masses of floating ice.

They can appear stable, but icebergs move, roll, fracture, and break apart without warning.

Large pieces calving from the glacier can also create waves capable of traveling across the lagoon.

The National Park Service recommends remaining at least half a mile from glacier faces and keeping substantial distance from icebergs. Paddlers should never squeeze between large icebergs or assume apparently calm conditions will remain that way.

Another hazard comes from glacial lake outburst floods. Water can accumulate in glacier-dammed lakes and then release suddenly, sending a large volume of water downstream toward the lagoon.

Bear Glacier Lagoon is therefore better suited to experienced paddlers and guided trips than to first-time kayakers.

🌊 Aialik Glacier

Aialik Glacier is one of the best-known tidewater glaciers in Kenai Fjords National Park.

Flowing from the Harding Icefield into Aialik Bay, its towering front meets seawater at the head of the fjord.

Unlike Exit Glacier, Aialik is generally experienced from the water.

Boat tours and private vessels traveling from Seward may enter Aialik Bay, where visitors can watch the glacier from a safe distance. On quiet days, cracking and booming noises may echo across the water as the ice shifts.

The glacier is considered relatively stable at its face compared with some of Kenai Fjords’ rapidly retreating glaciers, although thinning and changes along its margins have been documented.

Aialik provides one of the classic Kenai Fjords scenes: blue-white ice descending between steep mountains directly into the sea.

💥 What Is Glacier Calving?

Calving occurs when ice breaks from the front of a glacier.

At tidewater glaciers, gravity, internal fractures, water pressure, tides, and the movement of the glacier itself can cause enormous blocks of ice to detach and fall into the ocean.

The resulting crash can sound like thunder.

Large calving events may generate significant waves, which is why boats and paddlers must remain well away from glacier fronts.

Calving is spectacular, but visitors should never interpret long periods of quiet as evidence that approaching closely is safe. A glacier can release ice without warning.

Smaller chunks floating in the water also present navigation hazards.

Watching calving from a responsible distance provides all of the drama without unnecessarily entering the glacier’s danger zone.

🧊 Holgate Glacier

Holgate Glacier lies in Holgate Arm, a branch of Aialik Bay.

It is another of the park’s important marine-access glaciers and can be seen on some longer boat routes departing from Seward.

Historical photography shows that Holgate has changed considerably over more than a century. Like most glaciers in the region, it has experienced periods of retreat and thinning, although short-term advances can occur as part of complex glacier dynamics.

The glacier terminates among steep mountain walls, giving Holgate Arm an enclosed and dramatic atmosphere.

Nearby hanging glaciers add to the scenery, cascading from high slopes above the fjord.

For visitors traveling by boat, Holgate provides an opportunity to see that glaciers within the same icefield do not all behave identically.

🧊 Northwestern Glacier

Northwestern Glacier lies deep within Northwestern Fiord, one of the more remote portions of Kenai Fjords National Park.

The glacier has undergone dramatic retreat during the last century.

Historical photographs show ice once occupying much more of the fjord than it does today. As Northwestern Glacier retreated, newly exposed rock, shoreline, and marine habitat appeared.

Today, part of the glacier remains tidewater while another portion has retreated onto bedrock.

The journey to Northwestern Fiord is typically longer than trips to glaciers closer to Seward, but visitors who reach it experience one of the park’s most striking demonstrations of glacial change.

Floating ice can also provide habitat for harbor seals, which sometimes haul out on ice in the fjord.

🦭 Glaciers and Harbor Seals

Glaciers influence much more than scenery.

Harbor seals use floating glacier ice as places to rest, give birth, and care for pups. The ice provides platforms somewhat removed from many land-based predators.

Glacier-fed fjords are also productive marine environments.

Meltwater carries sediment and nutrients into coastal waters, influencing plankton, fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.

Visitors traveling toward tidewater glaciers may encounter harbor seals, sea otters, Steller sea lions, whales, porpoises, puffins, and other animals along the way.

That relationship between ice and wildlife is one reason glacier change has ecological consequences far beyond the glacier itself.

Our guide to the wildlife of Kenai Fjords National Park looks more closely at these species.

🧊 Pedersen Glacier

Pedersen Glacier lies in the Aialik Bay region and provides one of the park’s clearest examples of long-term retreat.

Historical photographs show that the glacier once extended much farther toward the sea.

Over the course of roughly a century, Pedersen Glacier retreated by about three miles toward the Harding Icefield.

As the ice disappeared, a new landscape developed.

Areas once covered by glacier ice became lakes, wetlands, exposed rock, and eventually plant habitat. The transition provides a vivid illustration of how quickly the appearance and ecology of a glacial valley can change.

Pedersen Glacier now terminates in a proglacial lake rather than directly along the marine shoreline visible in old photographs.

🧊 South Holgate and Other Smaller Glaciers

Large named glaciers receive the most attention, but numerous smaller glaciers flow through Kenai Fjords.

South Holgate Glacier, sometimes known locally as Surprise Glacier, has changed dramatically in recent decades. The lower section eventually became separated from ice higher on the mountain and melted away.

Other glaciers descend through remote valleys or hang on high mountain slopes.

Some are barely visible from typical visitor routes, while others appear unexpectedly during boat trips.

These smaller glaciers are important because they reveal that glacial change is occurring across the broader landscape rather than at only a few famous locations.

Every valley of Kenai Fjords has its own history of ice.

🌊 Tidewater Glaciers

Tidewater glaciers are among the most dramatic glaciers visitors can experience because their fronts meet the ocean.

Aialik and Northwestern are notable examples in Kenai Fjords.

These glaciers behave differently from land-terminating glaciers because seawater interacts directly with the ice.

Calving removes ice from their fronts, while underwater melting can destabilize sections of the glacier that extend below sea level.

Tidewater glaciers may retreat rapidly for periods and then stabilize or even advance temporarily depending on the shape of the fjord, water depth, snowfall, and the amount of ice flowing from higher elevations.

Their dramatic behavior makes them spectacular to watch but difficult to predict.

🛥️ Seeing Glaciers by Boat

Most of Kenai Fjords National Park cannot be reached by road, which makes boat travel one of the primary ways visitors experience its glaciers.

Tour boats depart from Seward during the summer season and travel through Resurrection Bay toward the park’s rugged outer coast.

Shorter trips tend to remain closer to Seward, while full-day cruises can reach tidewater glaciers deeper within the park.

Routes vary according to weather, sea conditions, ice, wildlife activity, and the operator.

The journey itself is part of the experience.

Boats pass sea cliffs, islands, seabird colonies, waterfalls, forests, fjords, and marine wildlife before reaching glacier country.

Even during summer, conditions on deck can be cold and windy. Warm layers and a waterproof outer shell are useful even when Seward feels comfortable.

🛥️ Which Glacier Is Best to See by Boat?

There is no single best glacier because conditions and tour routes vary.

Aialik Glacier is one of the classic destinations because it remains an active tidewater glacier and can provide impressive views of calving ice.

Holgate Glacier also appears on some routes and offers a dramatic setting within Holgate Arm.

Longer journeys into Northwestern Fiord provide a more remote experience and reveal some of the most dramatic evidence of historical glacier retreat.

Travelers choosing a boat trip should focus less on reaching one exact glacier and more on the overall route, time on the water, weather, and likelihood of reaching tidewater ice.

Whichever glacier is visited, the combination of fjords, marine wildlife, and ice is what makes the coastal experience special.

🧊 How Glaciers Carved the Fjords

The word “fjords” in the park’s name tells part of the glacier story.

During colder periods, massive glaciers flowed from the mountains toward the sea. Their enormous weight and movement eroded existing river valleys, widening and deepening them.

Instead of the V-shaped valleys typically carved by rivers, glaciers created broad U-shaped valleys with steep walls and relatively flat bottoms.

Some were eroded below modern sea level.

When the climate warmed and glaciers retreated, seawater flooded these deep valleys, producing fjords.

Aialik Bay, Northwestern Fiord, and other coastal waterways are therefore landscapes built by ice and later filled by the ocean.

Visitors on a boat trip are literally traveling through valleys excavated by glaciers.

🪨 Moraines

Glaciers do more than erode rock. They also transport and deposit tremendous amounts of sediment.

Rock falls onto glaciers from surrounding cliffs, while additional material becomes incorporated into the ice as it moves across bedrock.

When the glacier melts, this debris is left behind.

Ridges of deposited material are known as moraines.

Lateral moraines form along the sides of glaciers. Medial moraines develop where glaciers merge and their debris bands join. Terminal and recessional moraines mark positions where a glacier’s end remained for a period.

Bear Glacier has particularly visible medial moraines extending down its surface.

Around Exit Glacier, moraines help reveal previous positions of the ice as it retreated through the valley.

🪨 Glacial Striations

Glaciers can leave their signature directly on bedrock.

Rocks and gravel frozen into moving ice act like giant pieces of sandpaper, scraping against the underlying surface.

The resulting scratches and grooves are called glacial striations.

Visitors can find examples around the Exit Glacier area.

These apparently simple marks provide useful geological information because their orientation can indicate the direction the glacier once flowed.

Features like striations help visitors understand that the smooth valleys and fjords of Kenai Fjords were not formed passively.

Ice physically ground, scraped, plucked, and transported rock for thousands of years.

🌊 Glacial Meltwater

Glacier meltwater gives many rivers and lakes around Kenai Fjords their distinctive gray, blue, or turquoise appearance.

Moving ice grinds rock into extremely fine particles called glacial flour.

Meltwater carries these suspended particles downstream. Because they are so small, they remain in the water rather than settling immediately to the bottom.

The particles scatter sunlight, sometimes producing vivid blue-green colors.

Glacial streams also carry tremendous amounts of sediment.

As water levels change through the season and throughout the day, channels shift across broad gravel beds, creating braided rivers.

Exit Creek and the Resurrection River drainage provide accessible examples of landscapes shaped by this combination of ice, water, and sediment.

🌱 What Happens After a Glacier Retreats?

When a glacier retreats, it reveals an almost barren landscape.

At first there may be little more than rock, gravel, glacial sediment, and streams.

Then colonization begins.

Mosses, lichens, fireweed, willow, alder, and other pioneer species establish themselves. Roots and organic matter gradually improve the soil.

Cottonwoods can eventually form young forests.

Given enough time, Sitka spruce and other long-lived trees become established, turning terrain once covered by ice into mature forest.

Exit Glacier offers an especially accessible look at this process.

Glacial retreat is therefore not simply the disappearance of ice. It creates entirely new ecosystems and changes habitat available to plants and animals.

🌡️ Glaciers and Climate Change

Glaciers are highly sensitive to long-term changes in temperature and snowfall.

Kenai Fjords’ glaciers have generally experienced widespread thinning and retreat during the modern era, although individual glaciers may behave differently over shorter periods.

Exit Glacier provides the most visible example for many visitors. Historic photographs and marked former glacier positions show how much farther down the valley the ice extended in the past.

Bear Glacier has also undergone dramatic change as its terminus retreated and the proglacial lagoon expanded.

Pedersen and Northwestern glaciers have retreated substantially as well.

Scientists use satellite imagery, aerial surveys, repeat photography, field measurements, GPS, and other techniques to track these changes.

📸 Repeat Photography

One of the clearest ways to understand glacier change is to compare photographs taken from the same location decades apart.

Kenai Fjords National Park maintains repeat-photography records for several glaciers.

Images of Bear Glacier reveal both retreat at the terminus and thinning across the surface.

Photographs of Pedersen Glacier from the early 20th century compared with modern views show a radically altered valley.

Northwestern Glacier has withdrawn dramatically through its fjord, while changes at South Holgate Glacier illustrate how portions of a glacier can separate and disappear.

Repeat photography makes changes that might seem abstract on a map immediately visible.

Mountains remain in roughly the same place while the ice transforms between photographs.

🧭 Can You Walk on the Glaciers?

Visitors should not simply leave established routes and walk onto glacier ice.

Glaciers contain crevasses, thin snow bridges, meltwater channels, unstable ice, steep slopes, and other hazards that may be difficult or impossible for inexperienced visitors to recognize.

Even apparently flat ice can conceal dangerous openings.

Guided glacier travel requires specialized equipment and knowledge of route finding, crevasse rescue, and changing ice conditions.

The National Park Service’s maintained visitor trails provide opportunities to see Exit Glacier without stepping onto the glacier itself.

Anyone considering technical glacier travel elsewhere in the region should have appropriate training or travel with a qualified guide.

⚠️ Never Enter Glacier Caves

Caves and tunnels sometimes form beneath or within glaciers as meltwater flows through the ice.

They can look spectacular, but entering them is extremely dangerous.

Glacier ice can collapse without warning. Meltwater levels can rise rapidly, and pieces of ice or rock may fall from the ceiling.

The geometry of these caves can also change quickly as the glacier moves and melts.

A feature that appeared stable days earlier may no longer be safe.

Visitors should view glacier caves and openings from a substantial distance rather than treating them as recreational tunnels.

⚠️ Keep Your Distance From Calving Glaciers

Tidewater and lake-terminating glaciers demand particular caution.

When large pieces of ice break free, they can generate powerful waves.

Those waves may reach shorelines, boats, kayaks, and campsites well away from the glacier face.

Icebergs create another hazard because most of their mass lies below water. They can roll or split unexpectedly as melting shifts their balance.

The National Park Service recommends remaining at least half a mile from glacier faces in places such as Bear Glacier Lagoon.

The safest glacier experience is one that respects how dynamic the ice really is.

🌧️ Weather Around the Glaciers

Kenai Fjords weather can change rapidly.

The same Gulf of Alaska storms that provide enough precipitation to sustain the Harding Icefield also bring rain, wind, fog, and rough seas.

A sunny morning can become cold and wet later in the day.

Glaciers themselves also influence local conditions. Cold air drains downslope from icefields and glaciers, producing strong katabatic winds in some valleys and fjords.

Visitors should bring waterproof outerwear and warm layers even during summer.

Those heading onto the Harding Icefield Trail need to be especially prepared because conditions at higher elevation may differ substantially from those near the Exit Glacier Nature Center.

📅 Best Time to See the Glaciers

June, July, and August are the primary visitor months in Kenai Fjords National Park.

During summer, the Exit Glacier road is normally open to vehicles, maintained trails are accessible, and boat tours operate from Seward.

Early summer may still bring significant snow at higher elevations, particularly on the Harding Icefield Trail.

July and August generally provide the broadest range of options, although rain and cool weather remain common.

September can be beautiful and quieter, but services become more limited and coastal weather can become increasingly unpredictable.

Winter offers a completely different experience around Exit Glacier, but the road is not plowed for ordinary vehicle access and specialized winter travel may be necessary.

🚗 Best Glacier for a Short Visit

For travelers with limited time, Exit Glacier is the clear choice.

It is the only major glacier area in Kenai Fjords accessible by road, and visitors can see the glacier without committing to a full-day boat trip or strenuous hike.

Allowing a few hours provides time to explore the shorter trails and learn about glacial retreat.

Visitors with a full day and good hiking ability can tackle the Harding Icefield Trail.

Travelers with another full day available should strongly consider a boat trip from Seward to experience the completely different world of tidewater glaciers.

Seeing both Exit Glacier and the coastal fjords provides a much more complete understanding of Kenai Fjords.

🛥️ Best Glacier Experience for Non-Hikers

A boat tour is an excellent option for visitors who want dramatic glacier scenery without a major hike.

Full-day cruises from Seward can travel into the fjords toward tidewater glaciers while also providing opportunities to see whales, sea lions, harbor seals, puffins, and other marine wildlife.

Passengers can experience glaciers from outdoor viewing decks while still having access to sheltered indoor areas.

Conditions at sea vary, and travelers prone to seasickness should prepare before departure.

The combination of wildlife, fjords, and glaciers makes these trips much more than simple transportation to an ice front.

🥾 Best Glacier Experience for Hikers

Strong hikers should consider the Harding Icefield Trail.

Few maintained national park trails move through such a dramatic sequence of environments.

The hike begins amid forest and lush vegetation, climbs through increasingly open alpine country, and eventually reaches viewpoints over an almost continuous world of ice.

It also makes the relationship between Exit Glacier and the Harding Icefield easy to understand.

From lower in the valley, Exit appears to be a single glacier.

From above, it becomes obvious that Exit is simply one outlet flowing from an enormous interconnected ice system.

🧊 Which Kenai Fjords Glacier Is the Most Impressive?

The answer depends on what you want to experience.

Exit Glacier is best for accessibility and understanding retreat.

Bear Glacier is remarkable for its size, iceberg-filled lagoon, and rapidly changing landscape.

Aialik Glacier offers the classic experience of watching a tidewater glacier meet the ocean.

Holgate Glacier provides impressive scenery within a narrow fjord arm.

Northwestern Glacier is especially fascinating for visitors interested in seeing the scale of long-term glacial retreat.

The Harding Icefield, meanwhile, provides the broadest perspective of all.

Rather than choosing one “best” glacier, visitors who have enough time should experience the ice from both land and sea.

🌎 Why Kenai Fjords’ Glaciers Matter

The glaciers of Kenai Fjords influence nearly every part of the park.

They carved the fjords that now provide habitat for marine wildlife. Their meltwater feeds rivers and streams. Retreating ice exposes new land that plants and animals gradually colonize.

Glaciers affect water temperature, sediment movement, coastal ecosystems, recreation, and the visual character of the entire region.

They also preserve a record of climate while responding visibly to ongoing environmental change.

A visitor standing at Exit Glacier, looking across the Harding Icefield, or listening to ice crash from a tidewater glacier is seeing a landscape that is active rather than static.

Kenai Fjords is still being reshaped by ice.

At the same time, the ice itself is changing.

That combination makes the glaciers of Kenai Fjords National Park among the most compelling natural features anywhere in Alaska.