The notebook of Valdez et Prince William Sound
Let each bay surprise you.
Port surrounded by waterfalls, tidal glaciers and snow-covered peaks.
At your own pace
Identity summary
3 to 7 days
Spring · Summer · Autumn · Winter
Recommended car
Coast · Mountain · Nature
Variable accessibility
Modular rhythm
General presentation
Valdez et Prince William Sound
Port surrounded by waterfalls, tidal glaciers and snow-covered peaks.
To understand what Valdez and Prince William Sound are, you have to look at Columbia Glacier, Worthington Glacier and Keystone Canyon. These places give you a view of a territory marked by the coastline, mountain reliefs and natural spaces and allow you to move from emblematic sites to more intimate stages.
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For a stay of 3 to 7 days, it is better to balance visits and travel times. Also to be anticipated: conditions to be checked according to the season. A car is usually the easiest way to connect the different sectors. Accessibility varies from site to site and deserves to be verified step by step.
Strengths and constraints
Strengths
- Columbia Glacier
- Worthington Glacier
- Keystone Canyon
Before you choose
- Car often useful
- Conditions to be checked by season
Places worth visiting
A selection to start dreaming and organizing the stay — not an exhaustive list of everything there is to see.
Nature and panorama
Columbia Glacier
Columbia Glacier usually meets from water, in the middle of blue and white icebergs drifting through Prince William Sound. Its rapidly declining mass gives the landscape a particular tension: the boats sail between ice blocks, seals placed on the plates and distant walls that change year by year.
Nature and panorama
Worthington Glacier
Worthington Glacier is located near the Thompson Pass, in a backdrop of steep mountains often hung by clouds. Its relatively direct access allows you to approach an ice tongue without long expedition, with short trails, polished rocks and cold torrents that recall the power of the relief around Valdez.
Nature and panorama
Keystone Canyon
Keystone Canyon narrow the road to Valdez between high rock walls, waterfalls and traces of the old railway project never completed. Bridal Veil Falls and Horsetail Falls almost fall to the edge of the roadway; after rain or during melting, the water gives the canyon a continuous movement.
Culture and heritage
Valdez Museum
The Valdez Museum Lights up a city shaped by earthquakes, the gold rush, the port and the trans-Alaska pipeline. Masks, photographs, everyday objects and travel stories after the earthquake show how Valdez has been rebuilt between mountains, oil, fishing and memory of disasters.
Practical tips
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