Kenny Lake to Grand View RV Park on Glenn Highway

We are leaving the Wrangell Mountains today.....

 Mount Sanford  16,237 feet

 Mount Drum  12,010 feet

Mt. Wrangell  14,163 feet and a active volcano

Mt. Blackburn  16,390 feet

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park when combined with the abutting Klune National Park in Canada, is the largest wilderness area in the world.  9 of the 16 highest mountains in North America are in Wrangell-St. Elias, including Mt. Wrangell an active volcano that erupted in the 1900s.

All told, there are four mountain ranges in the park....This gives the park 9 peaks over 14,000 feet and 11 over 10,000.  And to add to that....approximately 25% of the park is surfaced by glaciers.  This amounts to about 60% of the glaciers in the entire state of Alaska.

That being said....good-bye to the Wrangell Mountains.....we are driving the Glenn Highway toward Anchorage.  This stretch on the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Eureka Summit was declared a National Scenic Byway in 2002.  Enjoy!!!

Tazlina Glacier

Eureka Summit  3,322 feet

Chugach Mountain Range to Anchorage

Taking in the view

 View of Lions Head

Sheep Mountain....where are the Dall Sheep

Grand View Cafe and RV Campground

More pictures to come of our campground but first we are off to Matanuska Glacier.

 The glacier heads in the Chugach Mountains and trends northwest 27 miles.  Some 18,000 years ago the glacier reached all the way to the Palmer area.  The glacier's average width is 2 miles; at it terminus it is 4 miles wide.  The glacier has remained fairly stable the past 400 years.  At the glacier terminus meltwater drains into a stream that flows into the Matanuska River.

Well, I walked over 2 miles for those pictures

 On the way back to  the campground

 the terminus of the Matanuska Glacier

We are over half way to Anchorage

Day 39....what a beautiful day this has been......sunshine all the way.....To-date we have logged 4,753 miles on the motorcoach.....