Where is Glacier Bay from Anchorage?
 

Will be in Anchorage July 9-14. Heard Glacier Bay was great & that there were one-day tours with Goldbelt Tours. www.goldbelt.com My problem is I do not know where Glacier Bay is from Anchorage <BR> HELP Do have other places lined up, so if the Bay is too far away, no problem.

Glacier Bay National Park is southeast of Anchorage, but it is a long way. <BR>It is much closer to Juneau. Measuring on a map, I figure it to be about 500 miles straight line distance between Glacier Bay and Anchorage. About the only way to get there is to take a boat or to fly. <BR>I thought those Goldbelt Tours were run out of Juneau, which is about 550 airline miles from Anchorage. <BR> <BR>

Hi Bob, appreciate your response. Now I know why I couldn't find anything about it around Anchorage. Also right about the tours. We do have a day trip to Seward including a 6 hour cruise into the Kenai Fjords. Plan on taking the train to Denali Park, with a bus ride inside & possibly (if there is one) a ferry from Whittier to Valdez & are squeezing in a 25th anniversary on that Sun. With us having my wife's parents along (79 & 82) it should be a full trip. We will save Glacier Bay for next time. What kind of weather should we expect & I've read alot about the bugs. We live in Wis., so we have bugs & <BR>unusual summer weather sometimes ourselves. Thanks for your info. Bob

MEANT TO SAY THANKS & THIS IS ALL THE INFORMATION WE NEED. HAVE A GREAT TRIP EVERYONE. BOB

I cannot resist this one. My Dad, who was in the US Army during WW II was up there. He used to tell tales about the bugs. Like shooting them with a rifle. <BR>Hitting the smaller ones with a baseball bat, etc. The smallest guy in his company was barefoot one day and got carried off by the mosquitos. (Cuts two ways, those boots were heavy and the bugs caught the guy without them.) Radar used to track them, and confuse them with Japanese Zero fighter aircraft. <BR>

HEY BOB-HAD TO MAKE A COPY OF THAT STORY. MY WIFE'S DAD WAS IN WW2 AND I KNOW HE WILL ENJOY IT. <BR> <BR>HAVE A GOOD ONE----BOB