The heavily trafficked attraction is operating with reduced staff after federal firings, but it has a higher volume of ...

Arctic terns came back to Juneau in late April to nest at the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. Gwen Baluss, a wildlife ...

Students learned about the science behind the annual flood and what’s being done to protect their school and neighborhoods.

When the Forest Service’s Fireside Lectures began in 1962 at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center attendees gathered around a roaring log fire in the observatory’s natural stone fireplace.

This is a developing story. A warning about a sizeable collapse of the Mendenhall Glacier, following active calving recently and a large crack on its face, was issued by the U.S. Forest Service on ...

JUNEAU, Alaska, May 07, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One of Alaska’s most accessible and most stunning and iconic natural wonders, the Mendenhall Glacier, located in the Tongass National Forest ...

Nearby, friends helped carry boxes out of her family’s garage, which was inundated this week after a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier let rip — sending floodwaters into neighborhoods like ...

This week’s flood turned out to be the biggest yet. The water level in Mendenhall Lake — at the foot of the glacier — reached nearly 16 feet at 3:15 a.m. on Tuesday, a foot higher than last ...

For the second year in a row, an outburst of flooding from a naturally dammed lake at the Mendenhall Glacier has caused damage to homes in Juneau. For the second year in a row, there's been record ...

Former Forest Service architect Linn Forrest Sr. was the principal designer of the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. Linn arrived in Juneau in 1937 during the Great Depression to investigate ...

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