Stikine River - Glacier Flightseeing Package (SA-201)

Leaving Wrangell Airport you'll head first towards LeConte Glacier, a long, twisting, deep blue fjord surrounded with steep spruce covered mountains near the mouth to nearly vertical granite cliffs rising to over 4,000 feet at the head. The fjord is often choked with icebergs of all sizes and descriptions and is terminated by LeConte Glacier. The ice cliffs tower over 500 feet above saltwater and are constantly collapsing into the fjord creating resting and pupping areas for hundreds of seals. Mountain goats abound in the area. LeConte Glacier is the southernmost tidewater glacier in North America.

From there, your pilot will continue flying over the glacier which then becomes Shakes Glacier. Both glaciers are one huge ice-field but LeConte Glacier terminates in Frederick Sound (saltwater) while Shakes Glacier terminates at Shakes Lake, which in turn, feeds into the Stikine River.

The fastest navigable and free-flowing river in North America, the Stikine River, is just as it was during the time John Muir first discovered the magnificent beauty of this area. The upper river valley is crisscrossed with many river channels, sloughs, sand dunes, clear feeder streams, beaver ponds and lush "moose" meadows. The flat valley floor is hemmed in by the nearly vertical, snowcapped Coast Range Mountains. Heading back to Wrangell takes you over the huge, lush, marsh delta fed by three arms of the main river with numerous sloughs, potholes and sand dunes all ending in a large mud flat. The area is teeming with waterfowl, moose, eagles and bears.

A photographers paradise -- and all this in just 45 minutes! A trip you don't want to miss!