Worthington Glacier near Valdez, AK

Worthington Glacier State Recreational Site is 29 miles from Valdez, easily accessible off of the highway.  The recreational site consists of 113 acres. Worthington Glacier is 5,774 acres.

You can click on the pictures to enlarge them.

There are two parking areas; one at the entrance off of the highway, and one further up the hill. The parking lot on top is larger, with room for RVs. Both have restrooms.

There is an easy 0.8 mile paved path, handicapped accessible, to a viewing platform. Also a covered area with information boards.

Or you can do a difficult hike up the hill, and along a narrow ridge for 2 miles to the top. (We only went a little way up for closer pictures.)

For more pictures of the glacier, please click here. (Only 33 this time.)  :)

07/26/19 Leaving Valdez

It has been raining every day off and on for about a week now, and the forecast shows it to be this way until August 1^st with high temps in the upper 50’s, lows in the 40’s.  Our sewer tank is full and we went to the Tesoro to dump and fill water. From there we left town to park at a boondocking spot near Worthington Glacier. The temperatures are only going to be in the upper 50’s for the next couple of days, so, hopefully, it’s warm enough to go to the glacier. Then we’ll head further north in hopes of more sunshine and warmer temps.

You can click on the pictures to enlarge them.

Our cold, windy spot for the night near Worthington Glacier.

For pictures of our time spent in Valdez, please click here. (There's 381 in this batch.)

Old Valdez, AK

We went to the Old Valdez Museum. The building isn’t very big and most of the information there is on the 1964 earthquake. They had movies about the gold rush, the earthquake and how the town recovered. They were interesting. There’s a miniature version of the town made up under glass.

You can click on the pictures to enlarge them. 

We also drove the Old Town Valdez driving tour. They have posters with QR codes on them to follow along at a web site that you have to read about the place. The history is interesting, but there’s really nothing to see at the sites because everything was destroyed; not by the earthquake, but the town was burned down years later.

For more pictures of the museum and the driving tour, please click here.