Alaskan Marine Highway Experience?
Hello All, I am in the very preliminary stages of planning a trip to Alaska. It is at the soonest a 2025 trip. One of the places we'd like to see is Glacier Bay National Park, which is only acces...
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paulj wrote:
MILEPOSTS has been the best paper reference for Alaska trips for years. Lots of ads, but also detailed, and generally upto date travel info.
I may be wrong on this, but don't think you can get to Glacier Bay by ferry. The state ferry runs from Haines and Skagway in the north to Juneau, and places south - evenually to Washington. Glacier Bay is not close to any town, nor on the way between any.
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30yrs ago when there were no online resources and you couldn't access them anyway...the milepost was likely handy. In the modern world, electronic resources are far superior and more up to date. (If you are worried about being out of cell range, it's easy to download maps for offline use.) We had a copy of the milepost and tried to use it this summer but it was poorly organized and had some much silly info (like, at MP XX.XX, there is a sign stating 234 miles to Whitehorse) that it wound up on a shelf and never used.
But yes, if you want to go up the fiords and see glaciers, it's a cruise ship or local excursion boat (bush plane is also an option but crazy expensive). The ferry system is about getting from town to town.
