You can't visit Juneau without a visit to the Mendenhall Glacier. Here is a link to a web cam of the glacier: click here to see the glacier real time . The face of the glacier, seen above, in Mendenhall Lake is 100 feet tall (about the height of a 10 story building) and 1.5 miles wide, it's length is over 6 miles. Large as it is, the Mendenhall is just a tiny part of the Juneau Icefield, an expanse of interconnected glaciers that sits just behind the mountains next to Juneau, covers over 1,800 square miles and runs from the Taku River east of town to Berners Bay at the extreme western end of town.
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