Top 5 Can’t Miss

Spend a night in the woodsy Glacier Bay Lodge, the only hotel in the park.

Watch calving glaciers and breaching whales on a Glacier Bay tour.

Explore Huna Łingít history and culture through short films and formline artwork at the Huna Tribal House.

Kayak the crystal-clear waters of Glacier Bay while basking in views of the Fairweather Range.

Hike the lush Forest Trail for springtime blooms and possible moose sightings.

For thousands of years, icy-blue glaciers stretched across the Alaska panhandle. But just 250 years ago, these glaciers began melting at a dramatic rate, leaving behind a 65-mile-long waterway sculpted by its speedy retreat.

That fertile expanse formed the backbone of the 3.3-million-acre Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve , where moose and grizzlies frolic in forests of Sitka spruce, humpback whales the size of school buses feed in nutrient-rich waters, and boat tours cruise to the foot of 200-foot-tall glaciers—a handful of the nearly 1,050 that cover about 27…