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Kenai Fjords is a 650,000-acre park on the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska. More than half of the park is covered by the Harding Icefield, a remnant from the last Ice Age that hides an entire mountain range under ice thousands of feet thick. The Park is bordered on the north and west by the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, and on the eastern border lies the Chugach National Forest. The southern boundary is the Gulf of Alaska, where steep mountain valleys plunge into the Pacific Ocean, creating the fjord-like appearance. The park is located approximately 4 miles west of Seward, and 140 miles south of Anchorage via the Seward Highway.
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Here a rich, varied rain forest is home to tens of thousands of breeding birds and adjoining marine waters support a multitude of sea lions, sea otters, and seals. The most popular visitor activity at Kenai Fjords is viewing the park from a tour boat from Seward. The boat tours ply the coast, observing calving glaciers, sea birds, and marine mammals. Authorized commercial guides provide camping, fishing and kayaking services. Air charters fly over the coast for flight seeing and access to the fjords.
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