The glacier is one of the most easily viewed on the mountain, and is accessible from the Paradise visitor facilities in Mount Rainier National Park.

[1] Perhaps the longest studied glacier on Mount Rainier, Nisqually's terminal point has been measured annually since 1918.

Emmons Glacier on the northeast reached within 1.2 miles (1.9 km) of the White River Campground.

In the 100 years since the height of the Little Ice Age and 1950, Mount Rainier lost about one-quarter its glaciers.

Similar flows have stemmed from the Winthrop, Kautz, and South Tahoma glaciers as well.