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Ice country

Glacier destinations in the USA

Glacier country still means Alaska first, then a handful of Lower 48 icefields that are thinning year by year.

Kenai Fjords, Alaska — A blue berg in a Kenai inlet

FrontispieceKenai Fjords, Alaska

These plates record ice as a landform: moraine, cirque, tidewater face. Come for the scale, and for a note you can stamp before the ice steps back.

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States
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States in this chapter

  • Alaska

Glacier chapter

The plates

A blue berg in a Kenai inlet
Plate XXI

Kenai Fjords

glacier

Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Where a mountain of ice still meets the sea.

59.9° N · 149.8° WOpen plate →

A tidewater face meeting the bay
Plate XLVI

Glacier Bay

glacier

Fairweather Range, Alaska

A bay that was solid ice two centuries ago.

58.7° N · 136.9° WOpen plate →

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Can I visit glaciers in the United States?
Yes. Alaska holds the great ice. A few plates in the Lower 48 still show glacier country. This index lists them.

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