Kenai Fjords National Park
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Contact Information:
Kenai Fjords National Park
National Park Service
PO Box 1727
Seward, AK 99664
907-224-7500
http://www.nps.gov/kefj/
Size: 669,983 acres.
Location: Kenai Fjords National Park is South and west of Seward and 130 miles south of Anchorage via the Seward Highway. The Alaska Marine Highway (ferry) System connects Seward with Homer and Seldovia via Kodiak, providing service to Valdez and Cordova. Bus services are available between Anchorage and Seward. The Alaska Railroad serves Seward from Anchorage during the summer months.
Description: The park includes one of the four major ice caps in the United States, the 300-square-mile Harding Icefield, and coastal fjords. Here a rich, varied rain forest is home to tens of thousands of breeding birds and adjoining marine waters support a multitude of sea lions, sea otters, and seals.
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Operating
Hours:
The visitor center in Seward offers information, videos, maps, publications and exhibits. It is open daily from mid-April through September and weekdays in October. The Exit Glacier Nature Center is open daily in the summer months. It offers exhibits and information about the glacier and the Harding Icefield, interpretive programs and talks.
History:
Proclaimed Kenai Fjords National Monument on December 1, 1978; established as a national park on December 2, 1980.
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