Pratt Museum

     There are three floors of exhibits in this small museum. The ground floor focuses on  local history with exhibits combining story boards, artifacts, artwork, recordings, and films. One floor down is devoted to sea life with aquariums and stuffed birds. The basement contains more artwork, films and a display about the Valdez oil spill. There are also exhibits outside –a small garden, a homesteader’s cabin, and a forest trail.

  Most of the museum is accessible but some of the exhibits have booklets which are attached to the tops of display cases and can not be removed for easy viewing. There are no ramps or elevators inside the museum. Each floor can be seen by exiting the building and entering through a different door which must be unlocked by the museum personnel. We didn’t have time to see the outside exhibits.

  RV parking is available in the back of the museum parking lot.  Museum
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Homer Spit Trail

   The trail starts at the northern end of the spit and follows the east side of the roadway as far as the Fishing Hole City Campground. There are plans  to extend it to the end of the spit.

    It’s four miles one way, wide and very smooth with some long gentle dips.  Trail
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Castaway RV Park

   This is one of the tiniest RV parks that we’ve seen. There are about ten sites. A 30’ RV might fit but it’d be tight maneuvering into place. We would have stayed at the city camping areas but since the sun hasn’t been out much for our solar panels and we haven’t been driving very long distances to help charge the house batteries we decided we should give our poor batteries a good charging. The price is good – right across the street it’s over $70.00! (they’re closed for the season so we couldn’t have stayed there even if we had wanted too) The last time that we had electrical hookups was in the middle of May.

  The office doesn't have a ramp. The ground is hard packed sandy dirt with some muddy potholes. There may not be enough room between the sites to deploy a wheelchair lift.

  The park doesn’t have a website. The picture below is part of one of the city camping areas.  City Camping
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Seward Library–1964 Earthquake Movie

   The library shows this short documentary during the summer once a day at 2:00. It’s shown in the basement where they also have a very large selection of used books for sale.

  The handicapped entrance is in the back of the building accessed by a ramp. If you are with someone have them go down and open the door from the inside. The librarian was busy and forgot that we were waiting for her to open the door.  There’s plenty of room for wheelchairs both in the movie room and the book sale aisles.

  A new library with a museum is in the plans so this information will most likely be outdated in a year or two.  Movie
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Seward City Waterfront Park Camping

 Most of the shoreline along the east side of Sewart is parking lot/campground – large gravel lots filled with RVs. The section pictured has electricity plus it’s right on the water and the bike path so it’s very popular. The north end of this lot is a good place to camp if you don’t want electricity and if your RV is short. It’s quiet because no one is running a generator and the sites run parallel to the water for a good view. The tent only areas are pretty nice with grass, trees, tables and fire rings.

The bike path which is wide and smooth goes from the marina north of town down to the aquarium at the south end –about  1 1/4  miles. 

A few of the sites in the middle lot have blue painted stripes probably because they’re next to the bike path and close to town. Not all of the sites have tables. None of the tables I saw have a overhang.  Campgrounds
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Exit Glacier - Kenia Fjords National Park

   This view point is midway along a one mile accessible loop. If you’re able to do some rock scrambling the trail continues for another half of a mile to a point closer to the glacier toe.

   The trail starts out paved. Follow the arrows on the sign posts for the accessible trail which is made of hard packed crushed rock. The trail leads through the forest and then along the melt stream with good views of the glacier. It continues past the view point and rejoins the paved trail to finish the loop.

  The parking lot has a section for RVs.   Trail
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Byron Glacier Trail

   This is a fairly short trail, .8 miles one way, that  leads to large banks of avalanche snow and good views of the glacier.

    It’s not accessible due to a few steep sections and loose gravel but with an energetic helper it’s possible to take this trail. The trail is wide with a slight uphill grade so the return trip is easier. There are no major obstacles and the two stream crossings have wide bridges. Trail
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Begich,Boggs Visitor Center

     The toe of Portage Glacier is no longer visible from the visitor center ,having retreated behind a bend in the mountains,but the view is still magnificent. A commercial boat tour goes to the base where you may be lucky enough to see pieces fall off of the glacier. A few icebergs are usually floating near the visitor center. The visitor center has a movie and exhibits about the natural and human history of the area.

   Everything is accessible but if you go out the double doors at the end of the exhibits you’ll be stuck outside with only a very rutted path to get back to the parking lot. The ranger told us that the doors were for emergencies but they are not marked as such and are not alarmed.

The parking lot has a section for RVs.  Center
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Trail of Blue Ice

    We did just a short portion of this trail but that section was excellent. The boardwalk is well made and smooth. The ground level parts are covered with crushed rock and fairly easy to push along. The trail is five miles one way and goes past the campgrounds, fish viewing station and to the front door of the Boggs Visitor Center.  Trail
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Williwaw Campground

    Many of the sites in this campground have a good view of  Middle Glacier. The parking pads are paved and level. There’s  a lot of room and shrubbery between the sites making them very private. Some sites are pull through –large enough for any RV. A very nice campground.

  None of the sites have a handicapped designation on their number posts but some are marked as handicapped on the map at the pay station. I could not see any difference between the marked and unmarked sites except for the distance to the toilets.  All  of the sites are good – level paving , crushed packed stone around the table and fire ring, and room to pull a wheelchair up to the table. The tables have the bench cut out on one side. They also have a long overhang on one end. The vault toilets are accessible with good paved paths leading to them.  Campground
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