AKJet Alaska Backcountry Access
Milepost 80.7, Seward Highway

It starts at a pullout.

No terminal, no dock. A gravel bar off the highway, and a boat already in the water.

The Twentymile

Braided, shallow, moving.

Ankle deep in places and shifting every season. This is why it has to be a jetboat and not anything with a propeller.

Upstream

The road quits here.

Past this point there is no trail, no pullout, and no way in that is not the river itself.

Spencer Glacier

Then the ice arrives.

A lake full of bergs that calved off the face, and the face still coming.

At the face

You are the small thing.

Two kayaks, and a wall of ice that was part of a glacier this morning. Most people go quiet about here.

Girdwood, Alaska

One boat, three ways to use it.

Every trip starts on the same jetboat, because it is the only thing that reaches this country: shallow braided rivers, a glacier lake full of ice, and gravel bars with no road to them. Kayaks and fishing rods only change what you do once you are there.

Blue Ice, Spencer Glacier
Spencer Glacier

Blue Ice

Up the Placer to a calving glacier face. Jetboat in, kayak alongside the ice, or take the boat privately.

Backcountry, Twentymile Valley
Twentymile Valley

Backcountry

Into the Twentymile where the road does not go. Glaciers, waterfalls, and whatever is on the bank that day.

Fishing, Twentymile River
Twentymile River

Fishing

The same boat, the same valley, with rods. Half day or full day.

Booking

A person answers the phone.

Online booking is coming. Until it lands, call or text and we will tell you straight what is running and what the water is doing. Listed rates as of 2026-08-17, confirmed when you book.