Improvements to Trails and Overlooks in the Exit Glacier Area

The National Park Service is considering implementing selected actions from the Exit Glacier Area Plan (NPS 2004) in order to improve the visitor experience, create wheelchair accessible glacier viewing opportunities, prevent adverse impacts to natural resources, and provide for safer access to Exit Glacier. Proposed improvements to the Nature Trail, Harding Icefield Trail and Overlook Loop Trail would include rerouting a portion of the Nature Trail that is threatened by bank erosion along Exit Creek, making the Nature Trail accessible to people in wheelchairs, rerouting a degraded section of the Harding Icefield Trail, extending the Overlook Loop Trail so visitors can approach the margin of Exit Glacier, and constructing overlooks to provide vistas of the outwash plain and glacier. The overall purpose of these proposed actions is to enhance the visitor experience at Exit Glacier while minimizing impacts to park natural resources.

Contact Information

Shelley Hall
Chief of Resource Management
Kenai Fjords National Park
P.O. Box 1727
Seward, AK 99664
(907) 224-7539