Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
New Zealand
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park contains the highest mountains and the longest glaciers of New Zealand, in the centre…
68 tickets & tours
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Glacier parks show ice from three distances. From a boat: the calving fronts of Perito Moreno in Los Glaciares, the tidewater glaciers of Glacier Bay and Kenai Fjords, the lagoon of Laguna San Rafael. From a trail: Torres del Paine’s Grey Glacier, the Hooker Valley under Aoraki Mount Cook, the viewpoints of Franz Josef and Fox. And from the ice itself, roped to a guide with crampons, in Skaftafell, on Folgefonna and Jostedalsbreen, and by helicopter in New Zealand.
Torres del Paine National Park
Chile
Torres del Paine is the great park of Chilean Patagonia, two hours north of Puerto Natales and five from Punta Arenas,…
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Los Glaciares National Park
Argentina
Los Glaciares is the park of the Perito Moreno glacier and the Fitz Roy massif in Argentine Patagonia, and it is…
52 tickets & tours
Westland Tai Poutini National Park
New Zealand
Westland Tai Poutini National Park lies on the wet western side of the Southern Alps, in the South Island of New…
49 tickets & tours
Skaftafell (Vatnajökull National Park)
Iceland
Skaftafell is the visitor hub on the south side of the Vatnajökull ice cap, four hours east of Reykjavík on the ring…
19 tickets & tours
Mount Rainier National Park
Washington, United States
Mount Rainier is the ice-covered volcano that hangs over Seattle on a clear day, two to two and a half hours from the…
11 tickets & tours
Vatnajökull National Park
Iceland
Vatnajökull National Park covers the largest ice cap in Europe and a vast tract around it, some fourteen per cent of…
8 tickets & tours
Bernardo O’Higgins National Park
Chile
Bernardo O'Higgins is the largest national park in Chile and one of the largest in the world, an almost…
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Kenai Fjords National Park
Alaska, United States
Kenai Fjords is the ice-and-ocean park at the edge of the small port of Seward, two and a half hours south of Anchorage…
6 tickets & tours
Folgefonna National Park
Norway
Folgefonna is the ice cap on the peninsula between the Hardangerfjord and its branch the Sørfjord, in western Norway,…
3 tickets & tours
Kluane National Park and Reserve
Yukon, Canada
Kluane occupies the south-western corner of the Yukon, against the Alaskan border, and its gateway is the village of…
2 tickets & tours
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Alaska, United States
Glacier Bay lies in the panhandle of south-eastern Alaska, west of the state capital, Juneau, a fjord more than a…
1 ticket or tour
Laguna San Rafael National Park
Chile
Laguna San Rafael is a very large park on the Pacific side of Chilean Patagonia, in the region of Aysen, which contains…
1 ticket or tour
Glacier National Park (Canada)
British Columbia, Canada
Canada's Glacier National Park, which must not be confused with the American park of the same name in Montana,…
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Glacier National Park (Montana)
Montana, United States
Glacier National Park lies in the Rocky Mountains of north-western Montana, against the Canadian border, and should not…
No online ticket
Jostedalsbreen National Park
Norway
Jostedalsbreen is the largest glacier on the mainland of Europe, an ice cap more than sixty kilometres long lying on…
No online ticket
Northeast Greenland National Park
Greenland
The Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest national park in the world, and by a wide margin: it covers the…
No online ticket
Quttinirpaaq National Park
Nunavut, Canada
Quttinirpaaq occupies the northern end of Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, the most northerly…
No online ticket
Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve
Alaska, United States
Wrangell-St Elias, in the south-east of Alaska against the Canadian border, is the largest national park in the United…
No online ticket
The season is short, broadly the local summer, and the weather decides more than the calendar: boat trips are cancelled for wind, helicopters for cloud. Ice walks and ice caves must be booked with a licensed operator, since the glaciers change week by week and unguided access is the usual cause of accidents. Many of these glaciers are retreating fast, and the walk to the viewpoint grows longer every year. Each page notes where the ice front is now, how long the approach takes and which tours include the boat or the gear.