Canada
Kluane National Park
The world's largest non-polar icefields hide behind front ranges that only flights reveal.
From the highway the mountains look complete, then the flightseeing window fills with ice to the horizon. Somewhere in it stands the country's highest summit, visible from nowhere else.
Kluane holds Canada's biggest mountains and an interior ice world reached only by air. Mount Logan shows solely from the park's remote heart, and tours can land on the icefields themselves. Front-country trails climb from Haines Junction into Dall-sheep country. The seasonal Village Bakery's salmon bake is the gateway's institution.
Solo
One flight, one trail and the bakery make a complete solo Kluane day.
Friends
Split a charter over the icefields and compare disbelief on landing.
- The world's largest non-polar icefields fill the park's hidden interior.
- Mount Logan shows only from the remote heart; flights reveal what roads cannot.
- Front-range trails climb straight from Haines Junction.
Haines Junction's Village Bakery, home of the Sourdough Cheese Stick, runs its Friday salmon bake through the season.
The icefields themselves are thermos country; carry the day's rations.
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