Walking In Kluane National Park
Kluane's trail system is still in its infancy, though experienced walkers will enjoy wilderness routes totalling about 250km, most of which follow old mining roads or creek beds and require overnight rough camping. A few more manageable walks start from seven distinct trailheads, each signed from the highways and mapped on pamphlets available from Haines' Reception Centre, where enthusiastic staff also organize popular guided day-walks during the summer. Three trails start from points along a twenty-kilometre stretch of Haines Road immediately south of Haines Junction. The path nearest to the town, and the most popular walk, is the nineteen-kilometre round trip Auriol Trail ; nearby, the Rock Glacier Trail is a twenty-minute jaunt to St Elias Lake; the third and longest trek is the Mush Lake Road route (21.6km one-way). North of Haines Junction, most people walk all or part of two paths that strike out from the Sheep Mountain information kiosk on Kluane Lake - either the Sheep Mountain Ridge (11.5km), with good chances of seeing the area's Dall sheep, or the longer Slim's River West Trail (28.4km one-way), which offers a relatively easy way to see the edges of the park's ice field interior.
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