 | Exit Glacier Exit Glacier is a glacier derived from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains of Alaska. It received its name because it served as the "exit" for the first recorded crossing of the Harding Icefield. Access The Exit Glacier is especially notable for being a "drive up" glacier (similar to the Mendenhall Glacier of Juneau). A spur road of the Seward Highway takes visitors to the only road accessbile portion of the Kenai Fjords National Park and a number of hiking trails that take you to the terminus of the glacier or even up to the Harding Icefield itself. Although one of the Harding Icefield's smaller glaciers, because of its easy accessibility and abundant hiking trails around and above the glacier, the Exit Glacier is one of the more visited glaciers in Alaska The Harding Icefield is an expansive icefield located in the Kenai Mountains of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. It is also partially located in Kenai Fjords National Park. It is named for United States President Warren G. Harding. It also provides one of the most spectacular views the Kenai Peninsula has to offer. Geography The Harding Icefield can claim to cover over 300 square miles (483 km²) in its entirety (although, if one were to count its glaciers which descend from the icefield in all directions, the icefield measures in at over 1,100 square miles (1,771 km²) [1] The icefield spawns up to 40 glaciers, and of all types: hanging, tidewater, valley to name a few. Some of the more notable glaciers include the Tustumena Glacier, Exit Glacier, Portage Glacier and McCarty Glacier. The Exit Glacier, however, is the most accessible of the glaciers being reached by a spur road off of the Seward Highway. The icefield is also one of four remaining icefields in the United States and is the largest icefield contained entirely within the United States.[2]. The icefield itself receives over 400 inches of snow each year[3]. The Kenai Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Alaska. They extend 192 km (120 mi) northeast from the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula to the Chugach Mountains. The Harding and Sargent Icefields, as well as the many glaciers that originate from them, derive in the Kenai Mountains. Several prime fish-producing rivers, including the Kenai River and the Russian River, also flow from the mountains. The name "Kenai" was first published by Constantin Grewingk in 1849, who obtained his information from I. G. Wosnesenski's account of a voyage to the area in 1842. The Kenai Indian's name for the mountain range is "Truuli |
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