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Glacier Bay National Park Overview

Glacier Bay is a work in progress; the boat ride to its head is a chance to see creation unfolding. The bay John Muir discovered in a canoe in 1879 didn't exist a century earlier. Eighteenth-century explorers had found instead a wall of ice a mile thick where the entrance to the branching, 65-mile-long fjord now opens to the sea. Receding faster than...

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Glacier Bay Lodge
179 Bartlett Cove Road
Gustavus, AK 99826
Hotel Class: 3 class stars
Distance: 46.1 Miles
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Annie Mae Lodge
2 Grandpa's Farm Road
Gustavus, AK 99826
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Distance: 44.9 Miles
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Glacier Bay Lodge
179 Bartlett Cove Road
Gustavus, AK Map
Hotel Class: 3 class stars
Distance: 46.1 Miles
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Alaska Discovery
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Distance: 0.0 Miles (from destination center)
Description: Alaska Discovery offers overnight sea kayaking... Read More
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Woodwind Adventures
Glacier Bay
PO Box 47
Gustavus, Alaska 99826
Distance: 44.5 Miles (from destination center)
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Bartlett River Trail
Bartlett Cove
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Distance: 40.2 Miles (from destination center)
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