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    Chugach Adventures

    4.8 (25 reviews)
    Closed 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Samantha G.

    This was a great adventure! You board the train in Anchorage (if coming from Anchorage) and ride it to the Spencer Whistle Stop. It's about a 3 hr ride and stops in Portage and Whittier. You get a narrated tour during the trip and may even spot some wildlife. The guides come find you on the train and go over liability and give you boots. Hint: If you have your own rain boots, bring those. The ones they provide don't have much traction and are large. You then get off at the Spencer Glacier stop and they transport you via bus or can to rafting or canoeing. I had initially signed up for the float, but was able to switch to the canoe. Hint: Go for the canoe, it's a better trip. The floats go down the river. The canoes paddle across the lake to the glacier and then hike up onto the glacier. Since my objective was to touch a glacier, the canoe was the better option. Don't worry about the canoe being too strenuous. I'm not very outdoorsy and it was relatively easy - and fun! It's a much smaller group than the float. There were just 12 of us divided into 2 canoes. The guides were awesome. Very knowledgable and friendly. And I got to stand on a glacier! The only way to get to the Spencer Glacier is via train. So it's incredibly peaceful and uncrowded. We were literally the only ones on the lake. After the canoeing trip (about 2.5 hours), you return to the train stop, take the train to Portage, and then get on a motor coach to Anchorage. This saves a lot of hours on the return trip. All in all, I had a good time and would recommend it.

    Paul G.

    Our kayak trip with Chugach adventures was a trip of a lifetime. We had a private tour with our awesome guide Brooke, who took us through beautiful giant icebergs and Spencer Glacier and also did not mind being our photographer through the entire trip. They provided lunch and an awesome mind blowing, private tour. Her company was very good at making us feel safe and sanitizing all equipment and kayaks.

    Rafting under the future 30 mile hiking trail.
    Tyler C.

    I do all types of adventure travel. Today, I spent a day with Chugach Adventures that I would rate in my top 10 days on the trail. We took a helicopter to Comet Glacier, hiked 9 miles to Spencer Glacier, rafted around the icebergs in the glacier lake and closed it out rafting 7 miles down the river to the train. The entire day was first class with two amazing guides, flawless logistics, great lunch, flexibility to find our own path, etc. I'm thinking multiple days are in my future with them. Fantastic!

    Spencer Glacier, train, wildlife conservation

    We had a phenomenal experience with this company! I have never been so happy. They treat you amazing and make sure that you are having a blast! Kendall was our driver who picked us up at the hotel and over to the wildlife center and the train stop. She was amazing. There were others at the river area. Our guide on our raft was amazing and the person who gave us the informative talk before we headed out was phenomenal. They gave us great recommendations on what else to do in the area. Again, this company is family friendly and puts your needs and concerns number one. Highly recommend! We did the Bears, Trains, and Icebergs tour. We are a family of four with a 6 year old and 2 year old.

    Erick N.

    This is a review for the Spencer Glacier Iceberg Float. If traveling from Anchorage this activity, while it has it's moments, is not worth the trek. If arriving by Alaskan Railroad the journey takes a surprising four and one half hours, due to the train moving somewhat slow but it really ventures out of the way to pick people up at Whittier (and the train stopped there for 40 minutes) then backtracks to Portage wasting a large amount of valuable time. As the bus ride back took barely over an hour this was frustrating that this aspect of the journey was not better planned. The excursion itself starts out great with nice vistas of the Spencer Glacier. You commence your journey by floating around nearby icebergs - large chunks of ice that have fallen off the glacier. You even get to touch some of the icebergs and I enjoyed tearing off a small piece and making an iceberg popsicle. I do wish we had ventured closer to the glacier (it looked beuatiful) but instead we started down the river. While there were a couple small rapids (strong class one to weak class two) at the onset that were fun, within fifteen minutes all the best parts were over and the rest of the float was uneventful and actually became boring. The scenery is nice, but nothing like of the glaicer and ice bergs, no wildlife was spotted (other than seaguls, a couple flies and a construction worker) and the rest of the water was quite tame. Furthermore the seating in the rafts were not very comfortable. The rafts hold up to eight passengers (plus a guide) and boots, life jackets and optional rain ponchos are provided. If you are in the front expect to get splashed a bit at the beginning but otherwise you will stay dry (if it is not raining). Mosquitoes were not an issue in his area. The guides were competent and friendly. I had been informed by the agency I booked with there was a provided "deli style lunch" but this turned out to be untrue (not sure whether Chugach provided bad information or the agency was misinformed). There were light snacks served, but poor quality and oddly not until a stop at a sand bar towards the very end of the trip - it seemed like a sly way to market the trip as being fifteen minutes longer than it really was. If you are staying in Portage or Whittier and want a sedate outdoor activity this might be an adequate choice but if coming from further away or interested in something with an excitement factor or opportunities to view wildlife this is an excursion to avoid.

    A B B.

    I love it! We did the Spencer Glacier Lake tour with some friends from out of town. I have heard great things about this company and knew it would make the perfect highlight to our friends trip! We definitely were not disappointed! We saw an eagle feeding her freaking babies form the observation deck on the train ride, countless intense aqua blue icebergs, incredible awe inspiring Spencer Glacier up close. We had two awesome guides Erin & Carson, both incredibly knowledgable about the area, glacier and lake. We had the lake to ourselves on a day that could not have been more perfect unless the boat was filled with puppies. Seriously you should consider the puppies... This will definitely be our recommended go to excursion for anyone visiting!

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    So worth it!!!! What a blast! Guides were awesome! Views were breathtaking. I would do this trip again in a heartbeat!!!

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    4.9(22 reviews)
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    4.2(6 reviews)
    15.6 mi

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    5.0(14 reviews)
    27.9 mi

    Alaska Coastal Wildlife and Brown Bears…read more I did this tour in August 2023. It is a photography-centric tour and it lived up to the hype. We had bears. Lots of bears. Bear cubs. Carl Donohue was our Expedition Leader and did a great job. It was great to have someone with tons of bear experience, as it was close sometimes! It was a boat-based tour so that we would have the freedom to move to where the bears are. Day one we had bears. Day two we had weather, lots of weather. We were in Alaska after all. From there on out we were in bear heaven. I shot literally thousands of images (shooting at 30 frames per second will do that) and I really struggled to delete down to the 400 or so that I'm at now. It's tough to delete amazing photos because you have some that are even more amazing and you just don't need them all. The boat (yacht?) at 98 feet was super comfortable for our small group of photographers. The crew was awesome and the food was very good, certainly more than you would expect for a boat-based trip. I can't imagine how good you have to be at planning to pull that off. Every day I took "shot of a lifetime" photos of bears.

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