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Kenai Fjords National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Kenai Fjords National Park is a United States National Park on the Kenai Peninsula in southcentral Alaska near the town of Seward. The park receives about 250,000 visitors per year and, although it is one of the quieter National Parks, the visitation is quite high for Alaska. It is only one of three national parks in Alaska that can be reached by the road, at the Exit Glacier entrance. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenai_Fjords_National_Park   (217 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park : Introduction Frommers.com The Natives probably never ventured inland over the impossibly rugged interior of the Kenai Peninsula, leaving its heart to be discovered in 1968, when the first mountain climbers crossed the Harding Ice Field, which covers most of the national park. The park comprises 670,000 acres of the south coast and interior landmass of the Kenai Peninsula. Kenai Fjords is all about remote rocks, mountains, and ice that meet the ocean, and the animals that live there. www.frommers.com /destinations/kenaifjordsnationalpark/1506010001.html   (853 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Fjords National Park is comprised of 607, 805 acres of pristine and unspoiled wilderness on the Southeast coast of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. Kenai Fjords National Park is an everchanging landscape, sculpted by glaciers, earthquakes, and storms. The park is capped by the Harding Icefield, which is the largest icefield within the border of the United States. www.sikumi.com /kenaifiordsnationalpark.htm   (132 words)

Alaska.com Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Fjords encompasses 587,000 acres, or 917 square miles, of the mountainous Kenai Peninsula. www.alaska.com /places/parks/kefj/story/4481433p-4460422c.html   (2333 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park In Kenai Fjords National Park "the only constant is change." The vast Harding ice field covers more than half of the 607,805-acre park.As the glaciers of the ice field recede, the great valleys they carved fill with sea water. The Kenai Fjords National Park is accessible from Seward, 106 miles from Kenai. The recently exposed land surrounding the fjords is covered with mosses, lichens, and fireweed. www.visitkenai.com /outdoors/parks_fjords.asp   (196 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Fjords is a 650,000-acre park on the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska. enai Fjords National Park is ordinarily entered from the small boat harbor (below right) in Seward, where the park's visitor center can be found. It includes the 300-square-mile Harding Icefield, source of the glaciers that carved the fjords and provide some of the park's most impressive sights. www.alaska.net /~design/scenes/kenai/kenai.html   (247 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park on Encyclopedia.com The park features the great Harding Icefield and its radiating glaciers, many of which descend to tidewater, and a magnificent series of fjords along the coast of Kenai Peninsula, with rain forest, sea lions, sea otters, seals, and varied bird life. Pictures and Maps for: Kenai Fjords National Park A252/27: Kenai Fjords National Park: view of Kenai Lake www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KenaiF1jo.asp   (525 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park --  Encyclopædia Britannica Proclaimed a national monument in 1978, it became a national park in 1980. park in northwestern Zimbabwe, on the Botswana frontier. The park's area of 5,657 square miles (14,651 square km) is largely flat and contains fine hardwood forests of mukwa and Zimbabwean teak. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045066   (821 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park: Information, Books & Maps Kenai Fjords National Park encompasses 607,805 acres of temperate rain forest ranging from coast to mountain peaks. Originally declared a national monument in 1978, Kenai Fjords National Park was established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. More than half of the park is covered by the Harding Icefield, a remnant from the last Ice Age that hides an entire mountain range under ice thousands of feet thick. www.alaskanha.org /kenai-fjords-national-park.htm   (410 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park - Alaska State Park - Sweeping from rocky coastline to glacier-crowned peaks, Kenai Fjords National Park encompasses 607,805 acres of unspoiled wilderness on the southeast coast of Alaska?s Kenai Peninsula. NPS Alaska GIS: Kenai Fjords National Park - Kenai Fjords National Park The Kenai Fjords are coastal mountain fjords whose placid seascapes reflect scenic icebound... Kenai Fjords National Park - Kenai Fjords National Park... www.stateparks.com /kenai_fjords.html   (515 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park in Southcentral Alaska Although Kenai Fjords National Park encompasses a vast area of glaciated mountains on the Kenai Peninsula, most visitors see it from the deck or enclosed cabin of one of the tour boats based in the Seward small boat harbor. Seward, the base for visitors to Kenai Fjords National Park, has hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts as well as a campground on the city's rocky shore. A road intersecting the Seward highway just north of Seward leads about 10 miles back to a parking lot half a mile from the glacier. www.alaskascenes.com /fjords.html   (521 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park Located on the southeastern Kenai Peninsula, the national park is a pristine and rugged land supporting many unaltered natural environments and ecosystems. Seward, AK The Kenai Fjords reflect scenic icebound landscapes in which salt spray mixes with mountain mist. The park's wildlife includes mountain goats, moose, bears, wolverines, marmots and other land mammals who have established themselves on a thin life zone between marine waters and the icefield's frozen edges. www.hikercentral.com /parks/kefj   (726 words)

NPS: Nature & Science» Geology Resources Division To protect this life and landscape, a national monument was proclaimed in 1978, and the 580,000-acre Kenai Fjords National Park was established in 1980. Kenai Fjords National Park derives its name from the long, steep-sided, glacier-carved valleys that are now filled with ocean waters. The Kenai Fjords are coastal mountain fjords whose placid seascapes reflect scenic icebound landscapes and whose salt spray mixes with mountain mist. www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/parks/kefj/index.htm   (997 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park Welcome The remote, mountainous landscapes of Kenai Fjords National Park are ideal territory for black bears, mountain goats and wolverines. Uncover the mysteries of an ever changing landscape; rocks revealing the signature of past glacial advance, valleys growing as ice retreats, boulders recording the origin of glacial ice. (Gannet explored the Kenai Fjords coastline in 1899.) www.nps.gov /kefj/home.htm   (298 words)

NatureScapes.Net - Nature Photography Articles Series: Alaska Kenai Fjords National Park is located at the end of the Seward Highway, about 130 miles south of Anchorage. For more information on the Kenai Fjords National Park, you can visit the Park Service website at: http://www.nps.gov/kefj/index.htm. The park is open year round although access outside of summer is difficult due to a lack of regularly scheduled boat service, and the road to Exit Glacier is gated and not plowed. www.naturescapes.net /perspective/alaska.htm   (646 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park Catamaran Cruise 11:30 AM Kenai Fjords National Park is known for its variety of marine wildlife including many species of whales, Orca's (Killer Whales), porpoise, dolphin, Steller's sea lions, harbor seals, sea otters and many birds that call this beautiful area home. Kenai Fjords National Park Catamaran Cruise 11:30 AM Kenai Fjords National Park Catamaran Cruise 11:30 AM You'll depart the Seward Small Boat on the only Catamaran cruising Kenai Fjords National Park. More Information: Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward Alaska www.alaskatravel.com /seward/kenai-fjords-cruise-cat.html   (490 words)

GORP - Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska More on fishing in Kenai Fjords National Park More on kayaking in Kenai Fjords National Park The mile-deep fjords of the Kenai Peninsula are like cathedrals of rock and ice where mankind can worship the sea — kayakers, fishermen, and wildlife enthusiasts will find themselves in a state of aquatic Zen as they behold the powerful grace of orca, humpback, gray, and fin-tail whales. gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/ak_kenai.htm   (694 words)

Geology of Joshua Tree National Park However, Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 that increased the park to 794,000 acres and raised its level of protection to national park status. Featured with this page are the Coachella Valley Preserve and Painted Canyon--two natural areas near Joshua Tree National Park that are along the San Andreas Fault system, and display many features about the geology and natural history of southern California. For geologic maps and information about the Joshua Tree National Park region check out the USGS Southern California Areal Mapping Project resource site: http://scamp.wr.usgs.gov/scamp/html/sc_jotr.html 3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /joshuatree/index2.htm   (284 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park : Attractions Frommers.com Large, rolling waves are inevitable on the passage from Resurrection Bay to the fjords themselves, although once you're in the fjords the water is calm. The longest trips into the heart of the park proper encounter the greatest variety and number of birds and animals. To reach the heart of the park, vessels must venture into the unprotected waters of the North Pacific. www.frommers.com /destinations/kenaifjordsnationalpark/1506010029.html   (913 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park & Other National Parks Alaska Tours After exploring Kenai Fjords National Park, be prepared to bunk down for the night at the all-new Holiday Inn Express. Kenai Fjords Tours offers a selection of cruises to see the highlights of Kenai Fjords National Park. It's an all-day excursion into Kenai Fjords National Park, and features up-close looks at wildlife, marine mammals, sea birds and some of the most glaciers and fjords in the park! www.toursaver.com /kenaifjordsnationalpark   (252 words)

See Denali National Park, the Wrangell St. Elias National Park and the Kenai Fjords National Park on an all inclusive tour. See Denali National Park, the Wrangell St. Elias National Park and the Kenai Fjords National Park on an all inclusive tour. The full day Kenai Fjords Cruise explore rugged fjords that are exposed to the open ocean and have only recently been released from the huge ice fields that once covered Alaska’s coastline. We’ll explore the turn of the century town of Chitina and explore the Copper River before boarding our chartered bush flight for a wonderful flight seeing tour to a remote wilderness ridge in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park. www.ak-alaska.com /natparks.html   (1109 words)

Alaska Walking Tour and Walking Vacations, Kenai Fjords National Park On grand Exit Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park, we traverse the “toe” on foot, picking up the conifer-lined trail along Ptarmigan Creek. Alaska Walking Tour and Walking Vacations, Kenai Fjords National Park The Kenai Peninsula also showcases Alaska’s rich cultural heritage in its towns and villages, and the inimitably Alaskan way of life is celebrated in shops and artisans’ galleries. www.countrywalkers.com /itindisplay.asp?navid=0&id=2&itinid=754&ieid=628240   (262 words)

Find in a Library: Kenai Fjords National Park : general management plan. Kenai Fjords National Park : general management plan. Find in a Library: Kenai Fjords National Park : general management plan. Subjects: National parks and reserves -- Alaska-- Kenai Peninsula. worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/374bbe093c53e0dda19afeb4da09e526.html   (73 words)

Kenai Fjords Tours Official Site, Kenai Fjords Nat Kenai Fjords National Park abounds with marine sealife, and is a must for those interested in Alaska whale watching, Alaska Bird watching, wildlife viewing and glacier cruises. Kenai Fjords Tours’ wildlife and glacier cruises take you deep into the heart of Kenai Fjords National Park and an incredible abundance of marine and land-based wildlife —whales, porpoise, Steller sea lion, along with more than 80 different species of birds make Kenai Fjords National Park their home. Kenai Fjords Tours offers exceptional wildlife and glacier cruises in Resurrection Bay and Kenai Fjords National Park, including exclusive trips to the Fox Island Day Lodge or an overnight experience at the Fox Island Wilderness Lodge. www.kenaifjords.com   (592 words)

Seward, Alaska :: by BEARFOOT Guides :: Kenai Fjords Park, Camping, Harding Icefield, Marine Life, Wildlife, Earthquake History, Glacier Cruises, Travel Information & More Kenai Fjords National Park is located west of Seward. The only place you can actually drive to in Kenai Fjords National Park is 3.5 miles north of Seward, and 9 miles back to the Exit Glacier Ranger Station. Featuring fjords, glaciers and the start of the Iditarod Trail, Seward combines the beauty of an Alaskan coastal town with the convenience of road access. www.bearfootguides.com /communities/seward/seward.htm   (948 words)

L.L.Bean: Park Search - Kenai Fjords National Park L.L.Bean: Park Search - Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Fjords is a mountainous coastal region home to nesting seabirds, marine mammals, the Harding Icefield and canyon waterfalls. Exit Glacier is the most accessible area of the park with the easiest hiking trails. www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/15025gd.htm   (319 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise Kenai Fjords National Park wildlife and glacier cruise. Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge, a hearty breakfast and deli-lunch are included. Depart from Seward, Alaska on an overnight adventure to the Fox Island Wilderness Lodge with Wildlife and Glacier cruises. www.worldexpresstour.com /Kenai.htm   (129 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise: Princess Alaska Vacations and Tours Travel from Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge to Seward for a cruise to the unspoiled wonders of Kenai Fjords National Park. Takes place over a national or state park An array of optional tours are available at the Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge. www.princesslodges.com /kenai-fjords-park-cruise.htm   (170 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Fjords National Park is most easily accessed by tour boat from Seward or by driving out to Exit Glacier, just outside of Seward. A cruise into the Kenai Fjords National Park is a must during your visit to Alaska. For more information on Kenai Fjords National Park we suggest you visit the National Park Service web site for Kenai Fjords National Park. www.alaskatravel.com /parks/kenai-fjords.html   (441 words)

Kenai Fjords National Park These past glaciers created the fjords for which the park is named. The rocky coast is cluttered with seastacks, arches, and steep cliffs created by intense wave action. The land on which the park lies was accreted early in the Tertiary Period. www.und.nodak.edu /instruct/mineral/natpark/aamain/kenaif.htm   (159 words)

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