The Kenai Fjords National Park has many different features. It has mountains, fjords, glaciers, sea, and many others. The wildlife in the park has adapted to the surroundings well.

The park is located on the southeastern side of the Kenai Peninsula and encompasses a coastal mountain-fjord system. It is, in all, about 650,000 acres in area. Other than mountains and fjords, the park includes many islands, waterfalls, tidewater glaciers as well as other glaciers, steep cliffs, and a rocky coast. Heavy rainforests cover much of the land. A platform a mile high rises above the coast and the fjords. All of this is uninterrupted and quiet.

The park includes the Harding Icefield. It is about 300 meters square in area, and about 35 miles long, about 20 wide. The icecap is one of the four remaining icecaps in the United States. The icefield tops 34 glaciers, one of which is the Exit Glacier. The icefield receives over 400 inches of snow a year. Some scientists think that the Harding Icefield is a remnant of the Pleistocene Ice Masses, which, in its time, covered half of Alaska.

Along the coast there are many steep valleys carved out by ancient glaciers. Many of today's glaciers are doing the same. Slowly, but surely, they are carving the valleys as they melt away. Many pieces of the glaciers are falling off into the water, or calving.

The rocky shoreline, sea stacks, and islets are the remnants of mountains. The mountains are inching into the sea, not even noticible. Yet scientists know it is happening. One thing that drastically changed the land was the Good Friday earthquake in 1964. It dropped the shoreline by six feet, in less than five minutes!