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The 25-mile-long Knik Glacier snakes out of the Chugach Mountains before tumbling dramatically into an iceberg-studded lake that feeds the Knik River. With a five-mile-wide face and daily calving, the glacier’s an impressive sight: Its 400-foot-tall walls of ice rise up from a lake where those icebergs are floating, turning, and breaking apart.
The Knik Glacier (Dena'ina: Skitnu Łi'a) is an ice field located 50 miles (80 km) east of Anchorage, Alaska on the northern end of the Chugach Mountains. The ice field averages over 25 miles (40 km) long and over 5 miles (8.0 km) across, making it one of the largest glaciers in southcentral Alaska.
Even better, the Knik Glacier is close to both Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley, and some great tours can get you up close. Flights are as short as 90 minutes round-trip (and up to 2.5 hours if you’d like to land on the glacier); heli-tours from the Palmer area get you to the glacier a little faster.
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Paddling Among the Bergs. The scenery is amazing as many hundreds of icebergs fill the lake, and kayaking allows to you paddle right past them. Some are the size of houses; others have rolled over just enough to reveal their piercing blue color. Dwarf fireweed flowers peppers the granite moraine.
Apr 29, 2019 · Knik Glacier via Jim Creek. Enjoy this 40.2-mile out-and-back trail near Palmer, Alaska. Generally considered a moderately challenging route, it takes an average of 14 h 17 min to complete.
Oct 2, 2022 · Enjoy this 64.7-km out-and-back trail near Palmer, Alaska. Generally considered a moderately challenging route, it takes an average of 14 h 17 min to complete. This is a popular trail for camping, hiking, and mountain biking, but you can still enjoy some solitude during quieter times of day.
