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Mendenhall Glacier sits just 13 miles from downtown Juneau, with a half-mile-wide face and ice up to 1,800 feet deep.
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Mendenhall Glacier sits just 13 miles from downtown Juneau, with a half-mile-wide face and ice up to 1,800 feet deep.
Nugget Falls, a 377-foot waterfall, drops beside Mendenhall Glacier a short walk from the visitor center.
The U.S. Forest Service's Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in the Tongass National Forest overlooks a thirteen-mile river of ice fed by the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield.