Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center
Picture yourself a short drive away from the state capital, trees at your back, and in front of you, across an iceberg-dotted lake, an enormous ice field flowing down the valley in a glacier that ends at lake’s edge. Welcome to the Mendenhall Glacier, 13 miles from downtown Juneau, Alaska. If you’ve taken the paved trail to a glacier overlook, you can glance to your right and see the visitor center, set in a cliff above the valley floor. The huge windows that make up the curving wall of the center offer an uninterrupted view of the glacier.