| The marine wilderness of Glacier Bay offers rare opportunities to study the ebb and flow of glaciers. The area has experienced at least four glacial periods. The last, the Little Ice age, began about 4,000 years ago. The glaciers that still exist in the park today are remnants of that glacial period.
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| Advancing glaciers flow forward about 3 to 6 feet each day. Depending on the length of the glacier and the steepness of the valley it flows through, the ice at the front of the glacier is anywhere between 200 and 75 years old. So snow that fell in the high mountains 200 years ago, when the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed, calves (breaks off) off as ice today.
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ARAMARK/Huna Totem JV is an authorized concessioner of the National Park Service. Working in partnership with the National Park Service, ARAMARK strives to operate in
a manner that protects and restores the Glacier Bay’s natural, cultural and historical resources for the enjoyment, education and inspiration of future generations.
