Several trails lead to Icicle Ridge which borders several prominent mountains, peaks, and lakes.

Icicle Ridge is located at the western edge of the city of Leavenworth on land managed by the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest.

[3] Icicle Ridge got its name from the river, which name comes from the Indian word na-sik-elt, meaning narrow canyon.

The ridge is made of many large granite boulders that may have originated as the bedrock was plucked by the glacial movements plus loose boulders from alluvium, colluvium, and rockfalls from steep valley walls onto the glacier surface, including terminal and lateral moraines.

The southern tributaries, on the other hand, contain prominent sources of granitic boulders as remnants of glacial sediment.