Kenai Fjords
Location: Alaska
Established: December 2, 1980
Created in 1980 to protect some of the most incredible and impenetrable wilderness in Alaska, Kenai Fjords National Park is all about remote rocks, mountains, ice that meets the ocean, and abundant wildlife. Snow and ice cover nearly 51% percent of the park, including the vast Harding Icefield, which at 714 square miles of ice up to a mile thick, is the park’s crowning feature. The park is named for the numerous fjords carved by glaciers moving down the mountains from the massive icefield. The fjords are glacial valleys that have been submerged below sea level by a combination of rising sea levels and land subsidence (a fancy word for the gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land).
