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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, in southeastern Alaska, is a place that you should put on your visit list sooner rather than later. The glaciers are retreating at an astonishing rate and they are definitely worth a visit while they are still around. In 1794, George Vancouver could not get past Icy Strait at the southern end of the bay because of ice, but a century later in 1879 John Muir reported that the ice had retreated almost all of the way up the bay - a distance of 65 miles. On our trip in 2007 we saw a few small icebergs along the way, but most of the real ice was confined to a few glaciers. Smaller than they once were, perhaps, but still magnificent.
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