Glacier Walk Tours in Alaska

The best Glacier Walk tours in Alaska according to travelers and locals are:

• Grizzly Falls Ziplining Expedition
• Ocean Raft Adventure
• Chilkoot Horseback Adventure
• Glassblowing Experience
• Scenic River Float Tour
• Chilkoot Canoe Wildlife Safari
• Skagway Rock Climbing, Rappelling, & Ziplining
• Mendenhall Glacier Trek
• Private Mendenhall Glacier Trek
• Taku Glacier Adventure by Air, Water & Ice

Glacier Walk tours in Alaska range from $40 to $939. The most affordable Glacier Walk tours in Alaska are:

• Private Emerald Lake & Dogsled Tour
• White Pass Summit & City Tour
• Juneau City and Glacier Tour

The glacier dog sledding tours operate on the upper part of the glacier where the surface is packed snow. All other glacier walk tours take place lower on the glacier where you'll encounter different features in the ice. The surface is wet, a little bit dirty, and uneven with crevasses and seracs (towers/fins of ice). It is wet due to melting ice and from the meandering melt-water streams. It is dirty due to the movement of the glacier scraping the sides of the mountains, winds blowing dust and debris onto the ice, and 150 years worth of atmospheric dust settling onto the glacier. To prevent us from sliding while walking on the ice, we wear micro-spikes.

The tours that may include visiting an ice cave are the Mendenhall Glacier Canoe Paddle & Trek, the Mendenhall Glacier Trek, the Helicopter Glacier Trek, and the Extended Helicopter Glacier Trek. Though ice caves are frequently present and safe to enter, we do not guarantee their presence or that conditions will permit entry. Entrance to the ice caves depends on conditions on the day of the tour that are impossible to predict.