Seward Highway Scenic Drive (Round Trip)

This full-day scenic driving experience follows the renowned Seward Highway, a National Scenic Byway that hugs Alaska’s rugged coastlines, mountain ridges, glacier valleys, and forested slopes. Departing Anchorage, you’ll wind through the Turnagain Arm, tracing the interface of ocean and peaks while watching for wildlife like Dall sheep, eagles, or even belugas in the inlet.

Stops are made at signature viewpoints such as Beluga Point, Potter Marsh Bird Sanctuary, and perhaps Windy Corner, offering sweeping vistas of sea, peaks, and ice. Along the route you may pass glacier valleys visible from the road or via short outlook trails, and drive through parts of Chugach State Park whose mountains frame much of the journey.

The pace is relaxed, with plentiful photo stops, interpretive narration from the guide, and room to pause where the scenery invites linger. The drive returns you to Anchorage via the same dramatic corridor, giving a full appreciation of the highway’s changing light, moods, and landscape transitions.