Alaska Sea Kayaking Spots with Good Hiking
Make your own combined land and sea adventure by kayaking to these excellent hiking spots!
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A popular drop off and pickup beach for water taxi, however camping is not an option on this beach. Most people choose to paddle a short distance towards the glaciers for durable and level camping.
A large, popular beach for camping and water taxi drop offs and pick ups. Only 17 miles from Whittier it is often a first or last camp spot for intermediate paddlers without a water taxi. This beach provides large durable camping areas and fresh glacial streams in the vicinity.
Facing Beloit Glacier, 17 Mile Lagoon and the nearby Eagle´s Nest beaches are popular beaches for kayaking trips nearby the tidewater glaciers. This point is easy to find as it lies just on the glacier side of the very shallow terminal moraine of Beloit Glacier on Willard Island.
There is a small creek for fresh water, and wooden walkways in the trees. Tent platforms are tucked up on the inside of a small spit of land, and the drop off beach faces due East on the opposite side of the spit.
As you cruise through it, this spectacular passage necks down narrower and narrower until you are looking straight up at lush green walls that seem to enclose the boat on both sides. You’ll rarely see another boat in here.
On the southwest shore of Coghill Lake, on a lagoon just before the Coghill River, on the east side of College Fiord in Prince William Sound. Trail is 3 miles.