Exit Glacier – Exit Glacier Nature Center loop from Exit Glacier Creek

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United States

Alaska

Kenai Peninsula Borough

Exit Glacier – Exit Glacier Nature Center loop from Exit Glacier Creek

Easy

2.8

(22)

hikers

Exit Glacier – Exit Glacier Nature Center loop from Exit Glacier Creek

01:06

3.38km

130m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 18, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

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Kenai Fjords National Park

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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189 m

Glacier View Loop Trail

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This approximately 600m long road is wheelchair accessible and is almost flat through a forest landscape. It is frightening to read the annals of the last century, where the end of the glacier was once.

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1.41 km

View of Exit Glacier

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View of the Exit Glacier from the riverbed

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1.63 km

Glacier floodplain

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In a typical trail it's easy to get out onto the glacier floodplain, or outwash plain, from this point to explore. However, there are some serious hazards you should be …

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1.78 km

Exit Glacier

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The 6.4 km long exit Glacier springs from the Harding ice field. At this glacier the global warming becomes very clear. His loss rates are very dramatic in my opinion. …

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2.05 km

Overlook Trail to Exit Glacier

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3.23 km

Exit Glacier Nature Center

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Before taking the hike to the glacier, you should first visit the center for a flying visit

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3.38 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.16 km

184 m

Surfaces

2.00 km

936 m

222 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Monday 5 October

8°C

4°C

65 %

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Max wind speed: 4.0 km/h

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Comments

June 5, 2025,Exit Glacier View Runde, Seward, AK

Very beautiful, clean, informative, well-designed, maintained, and secured. It can get very crowded with tourist buses. We were there late in the evening and enjoyed the evening atmosphere.

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November 3, 2022,Exit Glacier in Alaska

The hike to Exit Glacier in Alaska is an example of several hikes to glaciers that we did between 07/17/2022 and 08/13/2022.

As in all other regions of the world, climate change here – and especially here in Alaska – has reached alarming proportions. The melting of Alaska's glaciers is responsible for an annual rise in sea levels of about …

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