Root Glacier Trail, Alaska, United States

5.0 (26 reviews) Spent Ranking #9 in Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve Hiking Trails

Great hike

It takes some time to drive to the park’s McCarthy/Kennecot’s area, but it’s totally worth it. The Root Glacier day hike is very accessible, doable with kids, but fun as well. Trail goes through the old town, forest, rocks and ends up on the glacier.
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5.0 based on (26 reviews)

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  • 5tommnow 5:00 PM Jul 1, 2020
    Great hike
    It takes some time to drive to the park’s McCarthy/Kennecot’s area, but it’s totally worth it. The Root Glacier day hike is very accessible, doable with kids, but fun as well. Trail goes through the old town, forest, rocks and ends up on the glacier.
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  • 5Nettie2010 5:00 PM Aug 4, 2022
    Amazing!
    The hike isn’t really strenuous by NP standards except that it’s fairly steep with loose gravel in quite a few places. We couldn’t believe how easy it was to walk even 1/2 mile or so across the glacier with just using our own crampons (even cheap ones with chain and no spikes) and hiking poles. It was an amazing experience and Mt Blackburn is beautiful in the distance. We hiked to 3 glaciers in Alaska and this one was by far the most accessible and safely trekked.

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