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Mendenhall Glacier lies just 12 miles from downtown Juneau, Alaska, which explains its popularity Visitors can walk to Mendenhall Lake at the foot of the glacier via the wheelchairaccessible Photo Point Trail Several other trails offer opportunities to view the glacier and the wildlife of Alaska's Tongass National Forest 01 of 03Going to Juneau and not seeing the Mendenhall is like visiting Rome and skipping the Colosseum The most famous of Juneau's ice floes, and the city's most popular attraction, flows 13 miles from its source, the Juneau Icefield, and has a halfmilewide face It ends at Mendenhall Lake, the reason for all the icebergsFed from an icefield high above Juneau, the Mendenhall glacier is a dynamic flowing force, grinding and scouring everything in its path as it carves its way down to the sea The Mendenhall Glacier is one of many "rivers of ice" in southeast Alaska formed during the Little Ice Age which began about 3,000 years ago Juneau Alaska Mend...