Alaska Adventure Tours and Day Trips: Alaska's Wrangell Mountain Air

Glacier Adventure Day Trip
Full Package: $289.00 Per Person (+ federal excise tax)
Round trip flight without guide or lunch: $199 per person
(Originates at Chitina Airport)



Meet us at the Chitina Airport and take a spectacular flight through Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. See the major peaks of both the Wrangell and St. Elias mountain ranges, Kennicott, Root and Gates Glaciers, Stairway Icefall, Erie Mine, Kennicott and McCarthy.

Join your guide on Main Street in Kennicott for a half day hike on the Root Glacier with sack lunch included. A moderate hike takes you to the Root Glacier where you will strap on crampons and step onto a undulating blue river of ice. Along the way your guide will explain the natural history of the area, including wildflowers, geology and the effects glaciers have had upon the landscape. Strap on your crampons and take your first steps onto the otherworldly terrain of an Alaskan glacier. Hike out across the ice as far as you can, discovering the many different features on the surface of the glacier: crevasses, moulons and perhaps even an ice cave. The color and beauty of these features will astound you. (For the less adventurous or mobile, we offer a Kennicott History Tour and lunch at Kennicott Glacier Lodge).

Hop the shuttle to the frontier town of McCarthy to visit the local museum and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of an Alaskan bush community. Explore the historic town built in the early part of the century. Enjoy the scenic flight back departing at 5:00 pm.

Tour includes: Two 30 minute scenic flights from Chitina to McCarthy Guided half day glacier hike (approx 5 hours) with sack lunch included. Optional full Kennicott Historic Town Tour with lunch at Kennicott Lodge Van shuttles to Kennicott and McCarthy

Note: Bring a camera, warm clothes, rain jacket or umbrella, and comfortable boots or shoes you can hike in. The glacier hike requires that you be able to walk on relatively level ground for 5 miles. We welcome you to photograph from the airplane.