Seward, AK

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When we got to Seward, it was drizzling. We stayed in a gravel lot next to the water.

The next day, Jordan and I walked to a playground close by. It was raining so the playground wasn't very fun, but the wet ramps at the skate park next door made good slides.

After lunch we went to Kenai Fjords NP. You can only drive into a very small portion of the park. The best way to see it is from a boat. We didn't have a boat (we would have taken a ferry if the weather had been nice), so we were stuck with driving. There's also only two trails in the park. We did one of them to Exit Glacier. 


On the way back from seeing the glacier, we stopped at Outwash Plain, which is where all the water from the glacier comes out. There's a lot of ice from Exit Glacier that gets stuck at Outwash Plain.

Ice chunks trapped in Outwash Plain

A big ice chunk that got stuck in the river



The other trail went four miles up to the Harding Icefield where the glaciers start. We would have done that too if the weather cooperated.

Then we moved to the Seward KOA. From there we went to the Library and the Kenai Fjords Visitor Center located in the town of Seward. (Ironically, the National Park was closer to the KOA and the Visitor Center and library were closer to our first site.) When we went to the library we also went to the skate park and I ran my RC car there.


This was by the skate park. If you want to learn more about the Iditarod, click here.

We found out that there was a Bald Eagle nest in a tree next to our site. There were eagles sitting up there a few times.

Location: Seward, AK 99664, USA

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