Lion Head is a 3,185-foot-elevation (971-meter) summit located 49 miles (79 km) east-northeast of Palmer, in the northern Chugach Mountains of Alaska.

This iconic landmark of the Matanuska Valley is set alongside the Glenn Highway midway between Anchorage and Glennallen.

An ascent of the summit involves hiking 2.3 miles (round-trip) with 1,100 feet of elevation gain, on land owned by AT&T.

[2] This landform's descriptive toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names.

[5] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Chugach Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.