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Exit Glacier, Alaska

This is a list of glaciers existing in the United States, currently or in recent centuries. These glaciers are located in nine states, all in the Rocky Mountains or farther west. The southernmost named glacier among them is the Lilliput Glacier in Tulare County, east of the Central Valley of California.

Glaciers of Alaska

Homer Alaska Spit Panorama
The Homer Spit is believed to be the remains of a glacial moraine.
Further information: List of glaciers in Denali National Park and Preserve

There are approximately 664 named glaciers in Alaska according to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

Gulkanaglacier
Gulkana glacier in the Alaska Range
  • Gulkana Glacier - south flank of the eastern Alaska Range
  • Guyot Glacier
  • Harding Icefield - Kenai Peninsula
  • Harvard Glacier - Prince William Sound
  • Hawkins Glacier
  • Herbert Glacier - Juneau Icefield
  • Herron Glacier - Alaska Range
  • Holgate Glacier - Kenai Fjords National Park
  • Hoonah Glacier - Glacier Bay
  • Hubbard Glacier - Disenchantment Bay
  • Hugh Miller Glacier - Glacier Bay
  • John Glacier - Glacier Bay
A045, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA, Johns Hopkins Glacier, 2002
Johns Hopkins Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Matanuska Glacier 8859s
Matanuska Glacier and peaks of the Chugach Mountains
A041, Juneau, Alaska, USA, Mendenhall Glacier, 2002
Mendenhall Glacier and the Coast Mountains, Juneau, Alaska
  • Mendenhall Glacier
  • Miles Glacier
  • Morse Glacier - Glacier Bay
  • Muir Glacier - Glacier Bay
  • Muldrow Glacier - Alaska Range
  • Nabesna Glacier
  • North Crillon Glacier - Glacier Bay
  • Novatak Glacier
  • Pedersen Glacier - Kenai Fjords National Park
  • Peters Glacier (Alaska Range) - Alaska Range
  • Peters Glacier (Brooks Range) - Brooks Range
  • Portage Glacier
  • Princeton Glacier - Kenai Peninsula
  • Reid Glacier - Glacier Bay
  • Rendu Glacier - Glacier Bay
  • Riggs Glacier - Glacier Bay
  • Ruth Glacier - Alaska Range
  • Sargent Icefield - Kenai Peninsula
  • Scott Glacier
  • Shadows Glacier - Kichatna Mountains
  • Shelf Glacier - Kichatna Mountains
  • Shoup Glacier [de] - Prince William Sound
  • Stikine Icecap
  • Straightaway Glacier - Alaska Range
  • Sunrise Glacier (Alaska) - Alaska Range
  • Sunset Glacier - Alaska Range
  • Surprise Glacier (Alaska Range) - Alaska Range
  • Taku Glacier - Taku River/Juneau Icefield
Ocean liner and glacier in art detail, Alaska via Canadian Pacific. Taku Glacier (3531517944) (cropped)
Ocean liner and Taku Glacier in art for Canadian Pacific

Glaciers of the Pacific Coast Ranges

The Pacific Coast Ranges include glaciers in the three states on the Pacific Coast.

Washington

Boulder Glacier 3593
Boulder Glacier, Mount Baker

There are approximately 186 named glaciers in Washington according to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). However, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens eliminated nine of its eleven named glaciers and only the new glacier known as Crater Glacier has been reestablished since.

Olympic Mountains
Mount Olympus
Other peaks in the Olympic Mountains
North Cascades (non-volcanoes)
Bonanza Peak Washington
Company Glacier
Mount Baker
Glacier Peak
Mount Rainier
Sarvent Glacier 23012
Sarvent Glacier, Cowlitz Chimneys.
Goat Rocks
Mount Adams
Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens once had eleven named glaciers, but the 1980 eruption of the volcano eliminated nine glaciers and the two remaining aren't recognized. One newly formed glacier now resides in the caldera of the volcano.

Oregon

There are 35 named glaciers in Oregon according to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

Wallowa Mountains
  • Benson Glacier - Eagle Cap
Mount Hood
Main page: List of Mount Hood glaciers
Mount Jefferson
Three Sisters Region
  • Bend Glacier - Broken Top
  • Carver Glacier - South Sister
  • Clark Glacier - South Sister
  • Collier Glacier - North & Middle Sisters
  • Crook Glacier - Broken Top
  • Diller Glacier - Middle Sister
  • Eugene Glacier - South Sister
  • Hayden Glacier - Middle Sister
  • Irving Glacier - Middle Sister
  • Lewis Glacier - South Sister
  • Linn Glacier - North Sister
  • Lost Creek Glacier - South Sister
  • Prouty Glacier - South Sister
  • Renfrew Glacier - Middle Sister
  • Skinner Glacier - South Sister
  • Thayer Glacier - North Sister
  • Villard Glacier - North Sister
Other Cascade Peaks

California

There are 20 named glaciers in California according to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

Mount Shasta

Mount Shasta is a volcano with seven named glaciers in the northern region of California.

Sierra Nevada

Glaciers of Nevada (in the Basin and Range Province)

2014-09-15 12 59 34 View of the Wheeler Peak Glacier in Great Basin National Park, Nevada
Wheeler Peak Glacier in Nevada

Basin and Range Province lies east of the Coast Ranges and west of the Rockies. There are no active glaciers in the Basin and Range Province and Wheeler Peak Glacier is considered by some to be a rock glacier.

Glaciers of the Rocky Mountains

Colorado

Andrews Glacier
Andrews Glacier in Colorado

According to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), there are sixteen named glaciers in Colorado. According to early mountain explorers and scientists, Colorado once had more than eighteen glaciers before 1880.

  • Andrews Glacier - Andrews Pass
  • Arapaho Glacier - between North Arapaho and South Arapaho Peaks
  • Arikaree Glacier - Between Arikaree Peak and Navajo Peak
  • Blanca Glaciers - two extinct glaciers (N.& S. glacier) on Mt. Blanca. These glaciers were located at 37° 35N., longitude 105° 28W. at 12,000 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range.
  • Fair Glacier - Apache Peak
  • Isabelle Glacier - Shoshone Peak
  • Mills Glacier - Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Moomaw Glacier
  • Navajo Glacier - North slope of Navajo Peak
  • Peck Glacier
  • Rowe Glacier
  • Saint Mary's Glacier
  • Saint Vrain Glaciers
  • Sprague Glacier
  • Taylor Glacier
  • The Dove - north of Longs Peak
  • Tyndall Glacier

See also Glaciers of Colorado See also [1]

Montana

Grinnell Glacier 2009
Grinnell Glacier with proglacial lake and The Salamander Glacier on high ledge
Further information: List of glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)

According to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), there are 60 named glaciers in Montana.

Utah

There are no visible glaciers in Utah. Timpanogos Glacier article is documentation of a buried glacier.

Wyoming

Gannet Peak with Gannett Glacier
Gannett Glacier is the largest glacier in the American Rockies and is located in the remote Wind River Range, Wyoming.
Main page: List of glaciers in Wyoming

According to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), there are 37 named glaciers in Wyoming.

Schoolroom Glacier from Hurricane Pass
Hikers head towards Schoolroom Glacier at right while the terminal moraine and proglacial lake can be seen at left

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