This guide to New Zealand includes tour info, itineraries, maps and heaps of photos of our well-established trips! The most unique aspect of glaciers in New Zealand are their accessibility, there aren't many glaciers in the world within walking distance from the nearest town!
For example, the Tasman Glacier begins high in the Southern Alps at an altitude of 3,m 9, ft and falls around 2,m 7, ft over it's 29 km 18 mile journey to a height of only m 2, ft above sea level.
The glacier terminal lake is only 8km 5 miles from Mount Cook Village - it's an easy half day trip to experience the glacier and we are back in town for lunch! The total area of the glacier is square kilometres 39 square miles and is as much as 4 km 2. It can take up to 40 years to flow from top to bottom! All of our South Island trips offer the chance to go heli-hiking on the Tasman Glacier.
For more information on our hikes and all our fantastic multi-day tours please contact us now or get your free brochure here. Can you please tell me more about your glacier hikes and what are the physical requirements needed?
Thanks Sue. I honestly don't know if you could improve this trip. The pace was just right. The activity level was just right. The guides knew when to visit popular sites, like Pancake Rocks, to avoid the crowds. Hidden gems like Ohau Lodge and Okarito were two of my favorite places. My husband and I learned so much from Hayley and Rachael - about what plants to eat, wildlife, history, Kiwi music - we are still listening to Katchafire and Fat Freddy's Drop!
Get up close and personal with the glacier! These are the most dramatic of landscapes. Recent articles Visiting Ulva Island November 5 minute read. Pop your details in below and have your say. Exit Glacier is not huge, but it looks big up close, so it makes a great place for photos. The well-developed trails here have good footing and interpretive signs, explaining the return of plant life after the ice. There are also guided hikes on the glacier, if you want to strap on crampons and walk on the ice.
Talk about a room with a glacier view: This is the only glacier in the state with a hotel across the street. The Kennicott Glacier Lodge looks out over undulating piles of rock and silt, as well as the moraine on top of the ice.
On clear days, you can see the alpine ice falls on Mount Blackburn 16, feet at the head of the glacier. The only challenge: McCarthy-Kennicott is pretty remote—an 8-hour drive from Anchorage or a 2-hour flight. Elias Mountains. They will equip you with crampons for a guided walk on the nearby Root Glacier. Robustly colorful and relaxing to reach.
Set between Anchorage and Denali, Spencer bends the road-accessible glacier definition just a little: the only way to see it is by rail. Spencer Glacier ends in a glacial lake, and such lakes are gorgeous sights themselves. Spencer Lake is filled with blue icebergs—which, in fresh water, are called growlers.
When you get off the Alaska Railroad, you can float next to the ice on a raft trip across the lake with Spencer Glacier Rail and Raft. Or, you can hike to the glacier. You can hike on your own or join a Forest Service employee for an interpretive hike; there are two trails, both gravel-surfaced, which are 2. Dozens of glaciers, calving action and wildlife galore: this National Park and Preserve is popular because it offers a greatest hits collection of Alaskan sights and is boat-accessible.
Most people who come to the Park—and there can be , of them a year—come by way of a cruise ship, and most of those ships head up the West Arm, towards the Margerie Glacier. The reason? It's the most impressive glacier, which is advancing 12 to 14 feet a day and calves frequently. This glacier once filled the entire bay, reaching Icy Strait in the late s. Receding rapidly, its face is now covered with rocky moraine.
The Park is also filled with wildlife, with bears foraging the tide line, mountain goats grazing near sea level and seals, sea lions and whales bustling about in the water.
If you're not cruising, stay a few days at Glacier Bay Lodge , the only lodging within the National Park boundaries. You may also see whales, bears, and mountain goats. You can also book excursions for kayaking, fishing, flightseeing, and more.
And while this mind-blogging spot near Mt. Alpine glaciers form on the peaks or slopes of mountains, and are higher in elevation than valley or tidewater glaciers.
The Great Gorge of the Ruth Glacier has 5,foot sheer granite walls rising up on either side of the ice, making them some of the highest granite walls on earth. Distance: 12 miles from Juneau.
Drive Time: Less than half an hour. Explore Time: hours. Worthington Glacier is found along Thompson Pass, 28 miles northeast of Valdez. Thompson Pass holds the honor of being the snowiest place in the state: During the peak winter of , it got more than 80 feet of snow. It still gets plenty today, which keeps this 4-mile glacier from retreating as much as others.
You can do a two-mile hike here along a sometimes treacherously narrow ridge, or you can also just do a short, paved hike to a viewing platform.
Worthington Glacier State Recreation Site is located at milepost Distance: 28 miles from Valdez, miles from Anchorage. Drive Time: 45 minutes from Valdez, 5 hrs from Anchorage. Technically, Portage is no longer a roadside glacier, as it recedes an average of one foot a day and is now no longer visible from the road, but its big blue icebergs are often found along the shore of the lake, right in front of the parking area.
On Byron, ice worms are common, if you get down and look. There are also beautiful ice caves and rivulets to see, but be careful not to walk too far onto the ice of this tempting glacier. You can visit the face of Portage by tour boat from the dock at the lake.
Byron Glacier trailhead is near Portage Lake. It's a one-mile scenic walk to the glacier face along Byron Creek. Bring a light jacket, as winds tend to pick up around the face of the glacier itself. Distance: 48 miles south of Anchorage. Drive Time: 1 hour. Not too spectacular in size, these hanging glaciers dangle from mountains in the Chugach National Forest.
Several pullouts allow for viewing.
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