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The unincorporated town of Gustavus remains an undiscovered treasure for visitors, or a least it succeeds in making itself feel that way. Sandy beaches offer an inspiring contrast to snow covered peaks of the Fairweather Range to the West and Chilkat range to the East.
Glacier Bay and Gustavus are work in progress, the Bay that John Muir discovered in 1979 in a canoe, didn’t exist a century earlier. Eighteenth Century explorers had found instead a wall of ice a mile thick where the entrance to the branching 65 mile long bay opens to the sea. In 1914 settlers homesteaded this alluvial fan now known as Gustavus. Today there are approximately 450 year round residents who call it home.
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