Touring the Kenai Fjords National Park:

The KENAI FJORDS NATIONAL PARK is one of the top tourist attraction in Alaska. Visitors to Seward Alaska that only have 2-3 days in town may want to take a full-day glacier and wildlife tour of the Kenai Fjords National Park. Each summer, tens of thousands of Kenai Fjords visitors are truly awestruck by the spectacular glacial scenery and abundant marine life. Seward's fleet of cruise vessels are networked via marine radio so each day whale and marine mammal observations are monitored. Your chances of actually seeing whales, porpoises, sea lions and sea otters are pracitically guaranteed. An estimated 20,000 migrating gray and humpback whales pass by the Kenai Fjords each year. Note that nearly all the vessel tour services follow similar shoreline routes and visit the same general areas of glacial and marine mammal activity.

Glacier and Wildlife Vessel Tours:

• KENAI FJORDS TOURS maintains the largest fleet of tour vessels in the Kenai Fjords. They offer full-day tours of Resurrection Bay, Aialik Bay, Northwestern Fjord and the Chiswell Islands. Half day tours of Resurrection Bay; Thumb Cove, Cape Resurrection, Eldorado Narrows, Harding Gateway and Bear Glacier. Kenai Fjords Tours also offers a FOX ISLAND LODGE PACKAGE in the Resurrection Bay Islands.

• MAJOR MARINE TOURS is a large vessel glacier and wildlife tour service. They provide a Kenai Fjords National Park ranger on every cruise. Major Marine Tours visits the seabird rookeries at Cape Resurrection and the Chiswell Islands. They also visit the tidewater glaciers in Aialik Bay and Holgate Arm in the Kenai Fjords National Park. Check out their SEWARD BOAT HARBOR WEB CAM.

• RENOWN TOURS operates a fast catamaran glacier and wildlife tour vessel that explores all the hot destinations between the Seward boat harbor and the tidewater glacial face of Aialik Glacier, including the abundant marine bird colonies on the Chiswell Islands.

Airplane Charters to the Kenai Fjords:

• SCENIC MOUNTAIN AIR operates a flightseeing service to the Kenai Fjords. They are located in Moose Pass (28 miles north of Seward) and provide float plane service from Trail Lake.