Mendenhall Lake

Mendenhall Lake is a proglacial lake in the Mendenhall Valley at the 1962 terminus of Mendenhall Glacier, three miles (4.8 km) north of the Juneau Airport in the Coast Mountains.

[1] The lake is included in the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area of the Tongass National Forest.

Local name derived from the Mendenhall Glacier and published in 1962 by United States Geological Survey.

In 1909, the lake was called McCush Lake by miners because Neil McCush had mining property near it (DeArmond, 1957, p. 31).

This article about a location in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska is a stub.

Melting ice on Mendenhall Lake near the start of the Mendenhall River with Nugget Falls in the background. For reference, the glacier is to the left and visitor center to the right.