The four-hour boat journey here from Seward, Alaska, doubles as a wilderness safari, with opportunities to spot orcas and pods of porpoises. The reward for the journey is solitude: the lodge鈥檚 are the only accommodations in 670,000-acre Kenai Fjords National Park. Each morning, the crash of a calving tidewater glacier doubles as an alarm clock, and guests gear up for naturalist-led hikes along the Pedersen Glacier and kayak excursions dodging ice floes. At night, guest lecturers talk about the native Alaskan culture and the surrounding wilderness. But rest assured, this is no summer camp: bartenders serve up tasty glacier-ice margaritas. From $1,495 for three nights, all-inclusive.聽
