Tracy Arm Fjord

About this spectacle

Tracy Arm Fjord carves a dramatic passage through the Coast Mountains of Southeast Alaska, its steep granite walls rising directly from steel-blue waters. Visitors arrive almost exclusively by boat, gliding past floating icebergs calved from the twin Sawyer Glaciers at the fjord's head. The air carries a sharp chill even in summer, scented with glacial meltwater. Harbor seals haul out on ice floes, bald eagles circle overhead, and mountain goats occasionally pick their way along sheer cliff faces. The crack and boom of calving ice punctuates the silence, sending small waves rippling outward. Waterfalls cascade down moss-covered rock at every turn, and the fjord's narrow walls create an enclosed, cathedral-like atmosphere. The journey through roughly 45 miles of wilderness fjord is among the most visually concentrated experiences in Alaska.

When to go

May — Sep, peak Jun — Aug

Getting there

Nearest airport: JNU. Nearest city: Juneau.

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