Keeping the Coast Guard in Juneau in the late 1940s depended on quickly finding quality housing for USCG families. The Mendenhall Tower Apartment was started in 1950 and occupants moved in by 1951.

After two consecutive years when meltwaters burst out of a basin on Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier and devastated neighborhoods ...

When most people look up at the Mendenhall Towers in Juneau, they just see its sharp ridges, the white snow that clings to them and its stark contrast to the open sky. But, when Ruth Johnson looks at ...

Studying the shape of Suicide Basin and how it changes could give researchers a better sense of how much water could be ...

Concerns raised about accurate representation of area’s Native peoples, project’s sudden announcement ...

A federal grant of nearly $1 million will be used to better understand the glacier outbursts that have caused historic ...

Installing up to five wooden totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center carved by local tribal artists is being proposed by the U.S. Forest Service, in connection with a co-stewardship ...

Mendenhall Glacier welcomes more than 400,000 visitors each year, and it's easy to see why: aside from its stunning arctic beauty, the glacier is only 12 miles outside Juneau and it's the only ...

Reviewers were especially impressed with the garden's "upside down trees" or "flower towers ... View Stop (477 reviews) Juneau Wildlife Whale Watching & Mendenhall Glacier (5018 reviews) ...