Mendenhall Glacier | How to Visit - ALASKA.ORG
Start at the visitor center, with an indoor viewing area and a 15-minute film about the glacier’s dynamics. A paved, flat .6 mile trail leads to Photo Point with a head-on view of the face across the lake against a coastal mountain panorama.
Mendenhall Glacier Interpretive Visitor Center
The Visitor Center offers information on the geology, ecology, and history associated with the Mendenhall Glacier. Bears provide wildlife viewing opportunities as they feed on fish in Steep Creek near the Visitor Center.
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The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center provides amazing views of the glacier and lake and high-quality recreation opportunities with emphasis on glacial phenomena, ecosystems and protection of fish and wildlife.
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Experience the splendor of Mendenhall Glacier at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. Here, you can enjoy views of the thirteen-mile-long river of ice, which terminates on the far side of Mendenhall Lake, and watch blue icebergs floating in the water amidst reflections of southeast Alaska’s coast mountains.
Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center - All You Need to Know ...
The Visitor Center provides a great introduction to Mendenhall Glacier and Tsongas National Forest where the glacier is located. The walk from the parking lot to the Visitor Center is lovely with far away views of the glacier and Nugget Falls.
Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center - US Forest Service
Wildflower Viewing: For panoramic views of the lake, glacier, peaks and sandy shoreline with its collection of early succession plants, try the Photo Point Trail (0.3 miles) and Nugget Falls Trail (0.7 miles), both begin in front of the Visitor Center. A close-up look at early succession vegetation will reveal pioneers such as tiny fungi ...
Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center - All You Need to Know ...
There is a visitor center with a theater showing a 15-minute film on Mendenhall Glacier, a bookstore operated by nonprofit organization Discovery Southeast, and exhibits on wildlife, history, and glacial and geological changes.