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Matador Network - Video. Day Tripping Alaska's Turnagain Arm From Anchorage To Whittier. Posted: June 10, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. A hearty breakfast is mandatory before embarking on ...

Once in Seward, passengers can disembark for a day of fun activities, multiple tours or just walking around to enjoy the ...

Sep. 5—The semitruck that careened off the Seward Highway late Tuesday posed a bizarre and uniquely Alaskan sight by Wednesday morning. The red cab was partly submerged in the glacial-gray water, its ...

Surfers ride the bore tide on Turnagain Arm along the Seward Highway south of Anchorage on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Bob Hallinen Photo) The bore tide in the Turnagain Arm attracts surfers and ...

But here, at Turnagain Arm, the ride can last five to 15 minutes, and if you paddle out far enough, it can be up to an hour. “This is way longer for sure,” said Sullivan.

The beautiful, yet deadly mud flats of Alaska's Turnagain Arm tragically claimed another victim this week, after a 20-year-old man became stuck waist deep and drowned with the incoming tide.

At low tide, Turnagain Arm is known for its mud flats that "can suck you down," the lead EMT said. "It looks like it's solid, but it's not." Zachary Porter, 20, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, got stuck ...

Zachary Porter, 20, from Illinois, was walking with friends across Turnagain Arm estuary's mud flats in Alaska when he became stuck in quicksand-like silt and could not be saved before the tide ...

The drowning was the latest tragedy at Turnagain Arm, a 48-mile-long estuary in Alaska known for its dangerous mud flats made of silt created by glacier-pulverized rocks.