Bettles Bay State Marine Park

Bettles Bay State Marine Park is a 679-acre undeveloped Alaska state marine park in the Valdez–Cordova area, remote and without road access. Reached from a lagoon northeast of the islands, it is valued for estuaries, eelgrass beds, salmon spawning areas, waterfowl nesting grounds, and sea otter habitat. People use the park for wildlife viewing, boating, and fishing, and it offers broad views of Bettles Glacier. Although campsites are present, wetland conditions make camping poor. Just southeast of the park, an old stamp press and a gold mine add a small reminder of mining history to a landscape shaped mainly by marine and wetland environments.

Whittier, Alaska · United States