The Exit Glacier Nature Center is the trailhead for all that the Exit Glacier area has to offer, including the Harding Icefield trail. The building includes exhibits about the Exit Glacier area, an Alaska Geographic bookstore, and park rangers to help answer questions about the area. For 2024, the Exit Glacier Nature Center is open: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm May 25 through September 2

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Exit Glacier Nature Center

Alaska Geographic at Exit Glacier Nature Center

A park ranger speaks to a child and adult

Talk with a Ranger

A youth park staff talks to visitors with a bear print mold in hand next to a bear skull on pelt.

Learn from Park Staff

A brown building and sign covered in deep snow.

Exit Glacier Nature Center in Winter

The nature center is the trailhead for all that the Exit Glacier area has to offer, including the Harding Icefield trail.  It is open daily during the summer and closed during the winter. 

The building includes exhibits about the Exit Glacier area, an Alaska Geographic bookstore, and park rangers to help answer questions about the area.

Winter

The stamp for our Exit Glacier Nature Center

KEFJ Exit Glacier Stamp

The main park visitor center is located in the Seward small boat harbor. The visitor center provides opportunities to view the park film, an Alaska Geographic bookstore, and park rangers to help answer questions about the area. For 2024, the Kenai Fjords National Park Visitor Center is open: 9:00 am - 7:00 pm May 25 through September 2

A grey building with humpback whale outline statue with sunrise in the background.

Kenai Fjords National Park Visitor Center

A park ranger talks with multiple visitors

Learn from a Park Ranger

Adults and small children look at a tidewater exhibit.

Visitor Center Exhibits

A park ranger swears in a junior ranger in front of an exhibit full of marine mammals and birds

Become a Kenai Fjords Junior Ranger

A traditional Sugpiaq qayaq (kayak) displayed on a wall.

Sugpiaq Traditional Qayaq

The visitor center is open daily during the summer season.  It offers a park film, exhibits, and an Alaska Geographic bookstore.

The stamp for our Visitor Center in Seward

KEFJ Seward VC Stamp

At the edge of the Kenai Peninsula lies a land where the ice age lingers. Nearly 40 glaciers flow from the Harding Icefield, Kenai Fjords' crowning feature. Wildlife thrives in icy waters and lush forests around this vast expanse of ice. Sugpiaq people relied on these resources to nurture a life entwined with the sea. Today, shrinking glaciers bear witness to the effects of our changing climate.