Matanuska Glacier  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Lat, Long:  61.7741, -147.7544 Map Page Views:  945. Good page?    Administrators:  Jared LaVacque, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  R Squared on Oct 10, 2007 Make this area a Favorite What's New   Print a Mini-Guide with routes Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event

Private Property MORE INFO >>> The first few miles of the Matanuska glacier are on private property. Please respect the rules of the Glacier Resort so everyone can enjoy access. They are very nice people so you will have no problems at all. www.matanuskaglacier.com This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

The Matanuska Glacier

Description 

Matanuska Glacier is a great place to escape to when you are having ice cravings in the middle of summer. With very easy access and all the ice you want to climb it is a very fun place. The weather is nice and cool in the summer and in the winter can be very very cold. The weekends bring out the tourist and the Anchorage crowd. If you go during the week you will probably have the place all to yourself.

Getting There 

From Anchorage take the Glenn Highway (Highway 1) all the way through Palmer and past Chickaloon to the Glacier Park Resort. It is right at a 100 mile drive. You must pay a day pass fee and a camping fee if you want to stay there overnight. Regular Admission is $20 Military and Student is $10. Senior Citizen is $15. Camping is $15 a night.

The Classics

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More Glacier	Some more glacier	Tyson walking back to the ice caves
Freaking beautiful	Tyson climbing	Me climbing up an easy piece of ice
More ice	More glacier	More glacier
Glacier	Checking out a crevasse	Headed back towards the taller stuff
Going further up the glacier	Awesome climbs everywhere	YES
Traversing an ice ridge	Climbing some glacier ice	And more ice
And the last one	Matanuska Glacier from the Glenn Hwy in the fall