The only developed area of Glacier Bay National Park is Bartlett Cove with a lodge that has 50 rooms, a boat dock, a campground, and park headquarters. All of the trails in the park are in this area. On our August 2020 visit, we chose to hike the combination of the Beach Trail and Forest Trails which form an easy one-mile loop from the lodge almost to the campground and back to the lodge. To reach the trailhead for the Beach Trail, you have to hike from the lodge, past the ranger station, and almost to the fuel dock or municipal pier as is noted on some maps.
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| Path from the lodge to the ranger station |
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| Healing Totem Pole |
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| Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra) |
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| Possibly Alkali Marsh Aster (Almutaster pauciflorus) |
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| Public dock with St Juvenaly in the foreground |
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| Official Trailhead |
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| Rental kayaks stored under the fuel pier |
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| Beneath the fuel pier |
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| The beach |
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| Seabirds comb the intertidal region for food |
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| The trail continues straight ahead |
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| Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus) |
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| The trail continues as a one-lane gravel road |
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| The still waters of Bartlett Cove |
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| The tip of Lester Island |
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| End of the Beach Trail...the Forest Trail begins on the left at the sign |
There is no entrance fee at Glacier Bay National Park.
The Glacier Bay National Park website is https://www.nps.gov/glba/index.htm.
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