Portage Lake with glacier in background
We headed to the Whittier road after rafting and found a nice NF campground to stay at right below a glacier. The weather was quite cloudy and threatened rain so our views were limited. With the rain we decided to drive down the road to Portage Lake, just a couple of miles away, to check it out. There was a really nice visitor center/museum right on the lake to tour. It was well worth our time. They even had a nice movie to see for free if you had your senior pass for national parks. After that we decided to drive thru the tunnel to Whittier just to say we did. It is a long tunnel that is one way at a time every half hour I think unless a train is using it. You straddle the train tracks as you spen
d around 8 minutes driving thru. Whittier is a town with a nice port that was developed by the military shortly after WWII due to wanting a military port there during the cold war. Now that the military is gone some cruise ships drop passengers off at the end of their cruise and bus them to Anchorage to fly home. There also some day tours and fishing trips by local boat captains available.
The tunnel entry from Whittier...single file
This building looks like something you'd see in some of the old Soviet block countries...very dreary looking in such a scenic place
After we drove around a bit we stopped at a place to buy ice cream treats and the power to the whole town went down. It took an hour plus before we were able to go back thru the tunnel again.
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