You’ll start at Grewingk Glacier Lake at Kachemak Bay State Park, Alaska’s first state park, with a 40-minute boat ride from the lodge. You’ll pass Gull Island, where puffins and other ...

This roughly 300-mile drive from Anchorage to Homer through Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, you’ll visit the wildlife-rich waters of Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Kachemak Bay.

Major Marine Tours, based in Seward, cruises to Kenai Fjords National Park, where the whale-watching is world class — but then, like so much in Alaska, so is the rest.Running from $109 for an ...

The flooding is due to a break on Suicide Basin, a side basin on the Mendenhall Glacier, located about 12 miles north of Alaska's state capital. A glacial lake outburst flood occurs when a dam ...

H OMER, Alaska — Our introduction to Homer came last January, while the city wore its drab gray winter coat. Time and again, locals urged us to come back for summer’s full-color glory. Among ...

A National Park Service report on Alaska's glaciers noted glaciers within Alaska national parks shrank 8% between the 1950s and early 2000s and glacier-covered area across the state decreased by ...

Two ice skaters were stranded and self-rescued from a glacier chunk that fell onto the ice in Portage Lake, Alaska, on Monday, Feb. 10.

Water in a neighborhood in Juneau, Alaska, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier. Alaska Department of Transportation and Public ...

Baby moose rescued from Alaska lake as protective mother watches. A Homer police officer distracted the mother moose while another officer teamed up with an Alaska tourism worker to free the calf.

City officials in Juneau, Alaska, issued an emergency declaration Sunday after a glacier lake outburst flood, from the Suicide Basin on the Mendenhall Glacier, wreaked havoc in the city.

Two people became stranded when a piece of glacier broke off onto a frozen lake in Alaska, officials said. Ice climbers came to the rescue.