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: June 8, 2024

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126 m

Exit Glacier Nature Center

Highlight • Rest Area

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

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596 m

These viewpoints have pedestal binoculars to give you views of the glacier ice and the broad outflow/outwash plain beyond it. Access is via a broad, flat trail with periodic benches if you want a rest.

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1.93 km

Glacier floodplain

Highlight • Natural

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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2.08 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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2.92 km

Glacier View Loop Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

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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3.71 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.50 km

211 m

Surfaces

1.84 km

1.51 km

152 m

131 m

< 100 m

Elevation

Highest point (290 m)

Lowest point (130 m)

Weather

Wednesday 19 November

1°C

-2°C

62 %

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