Matanuska Glacier

Adventure is available at Matanuska Glacier, which is most easily accessible through Glacier Park Resort, Mile 102 of the Glenn Highway east of Palmer. 

The lower end of the glacier, about three miles wide, is relatively flat and easily clambered upon. It's a good place to examine glacier-borne rocks and to peer down into crevices and imagine the decades and physical forces that went into the glacier's creation.

Perhaps part of the attraction of Matanuska Glacier is being present as this cold creature, born in the Chugach Mountains, visibly dissolves into a new form: the Matanuska River, running full-bore to the sea.

The glacier is about 27 miles long, descending from the distant Mount Marcus Baker, 13,176 feet high.

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