After two consecutive years when meltwaters burst out of a basin on Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier and devastated neighborhoods ...

Winter in Alaska has waterfalls frozen mid-cascade, ice caves so blue they look unreal, and lakes so clear you can skate across them like glass.

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Located between downtown Juneau and its airport, the Glacier Gardens offer a glimpse into Alaska's frequently forgotten ... view atop Thunder Mountain with Mendenhall Valley, Mendenhall Wetlands ...

The Mendenhall Glacier is one of the top attractions in Juneau, so many tours include a visit to the Tongass National Forest to view the 12-mile-long sheet of blue ice. Some cruise lines, like ...

The magnificent Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau is just one of ... and is noted for jet-boat tours up-river into the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve (dnr.alaska.gov/parks) for a taste of the wilderness ...

In August 2023, a major outburst flood from Mendenhall Glacier caused significant flooding in Juneau, Alaska. This event, unprecedented in its scale, would not have been possible without the ...

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(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Such glacial outburst floods are relatively recent events at Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier. The first recorded outburst flood there was in 2011, according to ...

A federal grant of nearly $1 million will be used to better understand the glacier outbursts that have caused historic ...