Glacier Bay National Park Guide: Paddling
Glacier Bay National Park Highlights
- Sign up with Glacier Bay Sea Kayaks in Glacier Bay National Park for one-day guided and unguided kayak adventures and for kayak rentals and outfitting. The outfit offers both double and single fiberglass sea touring kayaks, provides daily camper/kayaker orientation and instruction programs, and arranges for drop-offs and pick-ups on the tour boat. Experienced campers who bring all their own camping and cooking equipment can enjoy a low-cost kayaking trip throughout the inlets and waterways of Glacier Bay. Camping trips range in length from three to ten days.
- Try a one-day kayaking adventure: rent a sea-touring kayak and strike out on your own or join a guided day kayaking trip. Bartlett Cove offers the novice kayaker a much protected rainforest environment in which to paddle and explore. Kayakers may traverse the shores of Lester Island and Point Gustavus, where they will have opportunities to spot seals, porpoise, sea otter, black bear, moose, bald eagles, and whales.
- For a moderately challenging trip, try kayaking Bartlett Cove/Beardslee Islands. Kayaks can be launched into Bartlett Cove and paddled toward the campground or the Beardslee Islands. The Beardslees offer splendid beach camping and viewing of marine wildlife and birds. For placid paddling, solitude, lush beach, forest vegetation, and varied wildlife, the Beardslees make a superb two- to three-day trip.
- For an adventurous multi-day trip, kayak West Arm and Muir Inlet. The nearest tidewater glaciers to Bartlett Cove are about 50 to 65 miles away in the Muir and West Arms. Kayakers generally should allow five to eight days to paddle each way.
By Travel Expert:
Karen Kefauver
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