This is a list of glaciers existing in the United States, currently or in recent centuries. These

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such a ...

s 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

There are approximately 664 named glaciers in Alaska according to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). * Agassiz Glacier - Saint Elias Mountains * Aialik Glacier - Kenai Peninsula * Alsek Glacier - Glacier Bay * Aurora Glacier - Glacier Bay * Bacon Glacier *

Barnard Glacier Barnard Glacier is a long glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It trends southwest to the Chitina River east of Hawkins Glacier, southeast of McCarthy in the Saint Elias Mountains The Saint Elias Mountains (french: Chaîne Saint-Élie) a ...

* Bear Glacier - Aialik Peninsula, Resurrection Bay *

Bering Glacier Bering Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It currently terminates in Vitus Lake south of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, about from the Gulf of Alaska. Combined with the Bagley Icefield, where the snow that feeds the gl ...

* Black Rapids *

Brady Glacier Brady Glacier is a long glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins at and trends south to Taylor Bay, 46 miles (74 km) northwest of Hoonah. It was named by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic ...

Brooks Glacier Brooks Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier originates on the east face of Mount Silverthrone at Brooks Gap. The glacier moves northeast, joining Muldrow Glacier between Mount Brooks ...

- Alaska Range *

Buckskin Glacier Buckskin Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier originates on the east side of The Moose's Tooth, flowing east, then southeast, for before giving rise to the Hidden River Hidden or The ...

- Alaska Range * Burns Glacier (Alaska) - Kenai Mountains *

Byron Glacier George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...

- Kenai Mountains * Caldwell Glacier - Alaska Range *

Cantwell Glacier Cantwell Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in th ...

- Alaska Range *

Carroll Glacier Carroll Glacier is a long glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins near the Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaska ...

- Glacier Bay *

Casement Glacier Casement Glacier is a long glacier in the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska (USA). It was named in 1890 by Harry Fielding Reid in honour of R.L. Casement, member of Reid expedition on SS ''George W. Elder''. Back then ''Casement Glacier'' ...

- Glacier Bay *

Castner Glacier The Castner Glacier lies on the southern flank of the Delta Range, an eastern section of the Alaska Range. The glacier begins on the peak White Princess and continues to the head of Castner Creek, northwest of Paxson, Alaska. The glacier was name ...

- Alaska Range *

Charley Glacier Charley may refer to: Places *Charley, Leicestershire, a parish in England *Charley's Flat, alternate name for Dutch Flat, California *Charley's Motel, former name of Star Lite Motel, Minnesota, United States * Charley Ridge, West Virginia, Unite ...

- Glacier Bay *

Chedotlothna Glacier Chedotlothna Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier begins in the Alaska Range between Mount Russell and Mount Dall moving northeast, then north. It is the source of the Swift Fork of th ...

- Alaska Range *

Chenega Glacier Chenega Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in Prince William Sound and on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. Chenega Glacier was named in 1905 for Chenega Island and the nearby community of Chenega Bay. The glacier is a tourist ...

- Prince William Sound *

Chickamin Glacier (Alaska) Chickamin Glacier may refer to: * Chickamin Glacier (Alaska) *Chickamin Glacier (Washington) Chickamin Glacier is in the U.S. state of Washington. Chickamin Glacier is in Wenatchee National Forest and flows north from Dome Peak and Sinister Pea ...

* Clark Glacier - Glacier Bay * Columbia Glacier - Prince William Sound * Cul-de-sac Glacier - Kichatna Mountains * Cushing Glacier - Glacier Bay * Dall Glacier - Alaska Range * Davidson Glacier - Lynn Canal * Double Glacier *

Eldridge Glacier Eldridge Glacier is a major glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The long glacier originates on the east side of Explorers Peak, flowing northeast to a basin below Mount Eldridge, gathering flow from severa ...

- Alaska Range * Exit Glacier - Kenai Peninsula *

Fairweather Glacier Fairweather Glacier is a long glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the west slope of Mount Salisbury and continues west to its 1961 terminus 0.2 miles (300 m) east of Cape Fairweather, 10 ...

Fleischmann Glacier Fleischmann Glacier is a glacier in the Alaska Range of Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier lies in the southern Kichatna Mountains above Simpson Pass, moving south. It the source of Morris Creek, which feed ...

- Kichatna Mountains * Foraker Glacier - Alaska Range *

Geikie Glacier Geikie Glacier flows northeast to Mercer Bay, at the southwest end of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. It was first charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld, who named it after Sir Archibald Geikie, a n ...

- Glacier Bay *

Gilman Glacier Gilman may refer to: Places United States *Gilman Ranch, California * Gilman, Colorado *Gilman, Illinois *Gilman, Iowa *Gilman, Minnesota * Gilman, Montana * Gilman, Vermont * Gilman, Washington, former name of Issaquah *Gilman, Pierce County ...

- Glacier Bay *

Godwin Glacier Godwin is an English-language surname with Anglo-Saxon origins. It means ''God's friend'' and is thus equivalent to Theophilus, Jedediah, Amadeus and Reuel. .However, the word "Godwin" can also mean "helper of mankind" People Politics and govern ...

* Grand Pacific Glacier - Glacier Bay *

Grand Plateau Glacier Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor * Grand Mixer DXT, American turntablist * Grand Puba (born 1966), American rapper Places * Grand, Oklahoma * Grand, Vosges, village and commun ...

- Glacier Bay * Grewingk Glacier - Kenai Peninsula Gulkanaglacier

Gulkana Glacier Gulkana Glacier is a glacier that flows from the ice fields of the south flank of the eastern Alaska Range.http://ak.water.usgs.gov/glaciology/gulkana/ U.S. Geological Survey Program Overview on Gulkana Glacier It is accessible by gravel roads f ...

- south flank of the eastern Alaska Range *

Guyot Glacier Guyot Glacier is a long and wide glacier located in the east end of the Robinson Mountains in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins north of Yaga Peak and heads east-southeast to Icy Bay, south of the Guyot Hills and northwest of Yakutat. It ...

Harding Icefield The Harding Icefield is an expansive icefield located in the Kenai Mountains of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. It is also partially located in Kenai Fjords National Park. It is named for U.S. President Warren G. Harding. Geography The Har ...

- Kenai Peninsula *

Harvard Glacier The Harvard Glacier is a large tidewater glacier in the Alaska's Prince William Sound. The glacier has a 1.5-mile (2 km) wide face where it calves into the College Fjord. It is 300 ft thick and covers 120,000 acres of Chugach National ...

- Prince William Sound * Hawkins Glacier * Herbert Glacier - Juneau Icefield *

Herron Glacier Herron Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier begins in the Alaska Range on the north side of Mount Foraker, moving northwest for . It is the source of the Herron River. The name was give ...

- Alaska Range *

Holgate Glacier Holgate Glacier is a glacier located in the U.S. state of Alaska, in Kenai Fjords National Park. It flows outward from the Harding Icefield toward Holgate Arm of Aialik Bay. Tour boats from Seward, Alaska offer tourists the opportunity to view th ...

- Kenai Fjords National Park *

Hoonah Glacier Hoonah ( tli, Xunaa or ''Gaaw Yat’aḵ Aan'') is a largely Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's panhandle in the southeast region of the state. It is west of Juneau, across the Alaskan Inside Passage. Hoonah is the only f ...

- Glacier Bay *

Hubbard Glacier __NOTOC__ Hubbard Glacier ( Lingít: ''Sít' Tlein'') is a glacier located in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in eastern Alaska and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada, and named after Gardiner Hubbard. Geography ...

- Disenchantment Bay * Hugh Miller Glacier - Glacier Bay * John Glacier - Glacier Bay A045, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA, Johns Hopkins Glacier, 2002

A045, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA, Johns Hopkins Glacier, 2002

Johns Hopkins Glacier Johns Hopkins Glacier is a long glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the east slopes of Lituya Mountain and Mount Salisbury, and trends east to the head of Johns Hopkins Inlet, sout ...

- Glacier Bay * Juneau Icefield * Kadachan Glacier - Glacier Bay *

Kahiltna Glacier Kahiltna Glacier is the longest glacier of the Alaska Range in the U.S. state of Alaska. It starts on the southwest slope of Denali near Kahiltna Pass (elevation ). Its main channel runs almost due south between Mount Foraker to the west and ...

- Alaska Range * Kanikula Glacier - Alaska Range * Kashoto Glacier - Glacier Bay *

Kennicott Glacier Kennicott Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It trends southeast from Mount Blackburn to its terminus at the head of the Kennicott River in the Wrangell Mountains. It is located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park near the smal ...

Klutlan Glacier Klutlan Glacier is a long glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located southwest of Mount Nazirean and flows east across the border with Canada, then north to form the headwaters of the Klutlan River. Its native name was reported in 1891 ...

Kuskulana Glacier The Kuskulana Glacier is a glacier in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska. The Kuskulana Glacier trends southwest from Mount Blackburn to its terminus at the head of Kuskulana River, northwest of McCarthy in the Wrangell Mountains. Kuskulana i ...

Lacuna Glacier Lacuna Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier begins on the south side of Mount Foraker in the Alaska Range, moving southwest to join the Yentna Glacier, to which Lacuna is a tributary. S ...

- Alaska Range * Lamplugh Glacier - Glacier Bay * LeConte Glacier * La Perouse Glacier - Glacier Bay * Lituya Glacier * Logan Glacier *

Malaspina Glacier __NOTOC__ The Malaspina Glacier ( Lingít: ''Sít' Tlein'') in southeastern Alaska is the largest piedmont glacier in the world. Situated at the head of the Alaska Panhandle, it is about wide and long, with an area of some . Name The Lingít n ...

* Margerie Glacier - Glacier Bay * Martin River Glacier Matanuska Glacier 8859s

Matanuska Glacier Matanuska Glacier is a valley glacier in the US state of Alaska. At long by wide, it is the largest glacier accessible by car in the United States. Its terminus feeds the Matanuska River. It lies near the Glenn Highway about north-east of Ancho ...

* McBride Glacier - Glacier Bay * McCall Glacier (Alaska) - Brooks Range, Romanzoff Mountains * McCarty Glacier - Kenai Peninsula/Harding Icefield * Meares Glacier - Prince William Sound A041, Juneau, Alaska, USA, Mendenhall Glacier, 2002

A041, Juneau, Alaska, USA, Mendenhall Glacier, 2002

* Mendenhall Glacier * Miles Glacier * Morse Glacier - Glacier Bay *

Muir Glacier Muir Glacier is a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is currently about wide at the terminus. As recently as the mid-1980s the glacier was a tidewater glacier and calved icebergs from a wall of ice ...

- Glacier Bay * Muldrow Glacier - Alaska Range *

Nabesna Glacier Nabesna Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fed by deep snowfall in the Wrangell Mountains, the 53 mile (85 km) long Nabesna is the longest valley glacier in North America and the world's longest interior valley glacier. The g ...

* 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 The Princeton Glacier is a glacier in the Sargent Icefield, Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. The glacier was named in 1909 for Princeton University by George Perkins of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The glacier's terminus is a little over a m ...

- Kenai Peninsula * Reid Glacier - Glacier Bay * Rendu Glacier - Glacier Bay *

Riggs Glacier Riggs Glacier is a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the southern slope of the Takhinsha Mountains, 6 km (4 mi) southeast of Mount Harris and flows south-southeast to the head of ...

- Glacier Bay * Ruth Glacier - Alaska Range *

Sargent Icefield The Sargent Icefield is a large icefield located on the eastern portion of the Kenai Peninsula bordering Prince William Sound in Alaska. The ice field has numerous outflow glaciers including the Chenega, Princeton Princeton University is a ...

- Kenai Peninsula * Scott Glacier *

Shadows Glacier Shadows Glacier is a glacier in the Alaska Range of Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier begins in the Kichatna Mountains on the north side of the Cathedral Spires, moving north. It receives neighboring Shelf ...

- Kichatna Mountains *

Shelf Glacier Shelf Glacier is a glacier in the Alaska Range of Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier begins in the Kichatna Mountains on the side of Kichatna Spire, moving north. It is a tributary to neighboring Shadows G ...

- Kichatna Mountains * - Prince William Sound * Stikine Icecap * Straightaway Glacier - Alaska Range *

Sunrise Glacier (Alaska) Sunrise Glacier is a glacier in the Alaska Range of Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier originates near Scott Peak, moving northwest. It is the source of Sunrise Creek. Sunset Glacier is nearby. See also * ...

- Alaska Range * Sunset Glacier - Alaska Range * Surprise Glacier (Alaska Range) - Alaska Range *

Taku Glacier Taku Glacier (Tlingit language, Lingít: ''T'aaḵú Ḵwáan Sít'i'') is a tidewater glacier located in Taku Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, just southeast of the city of Juneau, Alaska, Juneau. Recognized as the deepest and thickest alpine t ...

- Taku River/Juneau Icefield Ocean liner and glacier in art detail, Alaska via Canadian Pacific

* Tana Glacier * Tatina Glacier - Kichatna Mountains * Tazlina Glacier * Ted Stevens Ice Field - the northern and eastern half of the Chugach Mountains * Tokositna Glacier - Alaska Range * Topeka Glacier - Glacier Bay * Toyatte Glacier - Glacier Bay * Traleika Glacier - Alaska Range * Tustumena Glacier * Tyeen Glacier - Glacier Bay * Tyndall Glacier *

Variegated Glacier Variegated Glacier is one of several glaciers which connect to Russell Fjord in Alaska. Variegated Glacier has been of considerable scientific interest because it surges every 20 years. See also * List of glaciers A glacier ( ) or () is a p ...

* West Fork Glacier (Alaska Range) - Alaska Range * Worthington Glacier *

Yahtse Glacier Yahtse Glacier is a 40-mile-long (64 km) glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the southeast slope of Mount Miller and trends southeast along the north border of Guyot Glacier to Icy Bay, just east of Guyot Hills and 70 mile ...

Yale Glacier Yale Glacier is a long glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins at the saddle between Mount Witherspoon and Mount Einstein, and trends southwest to Yale Arm of College Fjord, 47 miles (76 km) west of Valdez. It was named for Yale ...

* Yakutat Glacier * Yentna Glacier - Alaska Range

Glaciers of the Pacific Coast Ranges

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Pacific Coast Ranges The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System in the United States) are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico. Although the ...

include glaciers in the three states on the Pacific Coast.

Washington

There are approximately 186 named glaciers in Washington according to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). However, the 1980 eruption of

Mount St. Helens Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United St ...

eliminated nine of its eleven named glaciers and only the new glacier known as Crater Glacier has been reestablished since. ;

Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest at ; however, the easte ...

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Mount Olympus Mount Olympus (; el, Όλυμπος, Ólympos, also , ) is the highest mountain in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, be ...

Blue Glacier Blue Glacier is a large glacier located to the north of Mount Olympus in the Olympic Mountains of Washington. The glacier covers an area of and contains of ice and snow in spite of its low terminus elevation. The glacier length has decreased ...

* Hoh Glacier *

Hubert Glacier Hubert Glacier is located on the south side of Mount Olympus in the Olympic Mountains and Olympic National Park. Due to its southern orientation, the glacier is smaller than those on the north side of Mount Olympus, such as Blue Glacier. Named for ...

* Humes Glacier * Ice River Glacier * Jeffers Glacier * White Glacier ;; Other peaks in the Olympic Mountains * Anderson Glacier *

Cameron Glaciers The Cameron Glaciers are several ice bodies located on Mount Cameron in the Olympic Mountains in Olympic National Park. These glaciers are located in four north to northeast-facing cirques and range in elevation from about to just under . The ic ...

* Carrie Glacier *

Eel Glacier Eel Glacier is located to the north of Mount Anderson and east of West Peak, in Olympic National Park in the U.S. state of Washington. The northward-facing glacier starts at about in elevation, with an arm extending up to . As the glacier flows ...

* Fairchild Glacier *

Hanging Glacier A hanging glacier originates high on the wall of a glacial valley and descends only part of the way to the surface of the main glacier and abruptly stops, typically at a cliff. Avalanching and icefall An icefall is a portion of certain glaciers ...

* Lillian Glacier * Queets Glacier ;

North Cascades The North Cascades are a section of the Cascade Range of western North America. They span the border between the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of Washington and are officially named in the U.S. and Canada as the Casca ...

(non-volcanoes) Bonanza Peak Washington

* Banded Glacier - Mount Logan *

Blue Glacier (Chelan County, Washington) Blue Glacier is in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. Blue Glacier is in Wenatchee National Forest and flows east from Gunsight Peak, descending from nearly . The much larger Chickamin Glacier (Washington), Chickamin Glacier is on t ...

- Agnes Mountain * Borealis Glacier * Boston Glacier - Boston Peak *

Buckner Glacier Buckner Glacier is located on the south slope of Buckner Mountain, North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier is approximately in length and is split in two mid-distance along its course. The upper section descends ...

Butterfly Glacier Butterfly Glacier is in Wenatchee National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington and is on the northwest slopes of the northwest summit of Luahna Peak and the ridge which extends west from the peak. Butterfly Glacier is separated into two glaciers ...

Cache Col Glacier Cache Col Glacier is in North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington, on the east slope of Mix-up Peak. Cache Col Glacier retreated nearly between 1950 and 2005. Cache Col Glacier is northwest of Yawning Glacier. See also *List ...

* Challenger Glacier - Mount Challenger * Chickamin Glacier - Dome Peak * Clark Glacier (Washington) * Colchuck Glacier * Colonial Glacier * Columbia Glacier - Columbia Peak * Company Glacier * Crystal Glacier - Mount Shuksan *

Dana Glacier (Washington) Dana Glacier is in Wenatchee National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington and is west of Dome Peak. Dana Glacier flows generally north for a distance of approximately . An arête divides the glacier in two while other aretes separate Dana Glac ...

* Daniel Glacier - Mount Daniel * Dark Glacier *

Davenport Glacier Davenport Glacier is located in a cirque to the southeast of Boston Peak, North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier is approximately in length resting at between . The glacier is also northeast of Sahale Mountain ...

* Depot Glacier - Mount Redoubt * Diobsud Creek Glacier *

Dome Glacier Dome Glacier is in Snoqualmie National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington and is on the north slopes of Dome Peak. Dome Glacier flows generally west for a distance of approximately , maintaining a generally shallow gradient between at which p ...

* Douglas Glacier (Washington) * East Nooksack Glacier - Mount Shuksan *

Eldorado Glacier Eldorado Glacier is on the south slopes of Eldorado Peak, North Cascades National Park, in the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier is approximately in length, in width at its terminus and descends from . Eldorado Glacier is connected to Inspir ...

- Eldorado Peak * Entiat Glacier * Forbidden Glacier * Foss Glacier - Mount Hinman * Fremont Glacier (Washington) * Garden Glacier * Goode Glacier * Grant Glacier (Washington) *

Green Lake Glacier Green Lake Glacier is in North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington and is immediately northeast of Bacon Peak. Green Lake Glacier descends from a ridge extending from the east of Bacon Peak. The glacier forms two tongues descen ...

* Hanging Glacier (Jefferson County, Washington) * Hanging Glacier (Mount Shuksan) - Mount Shuksan * Hidden Creek Glacier - Hagan Mountain * Hinman Glacier - Mount Hinman * Ice Cliff Glacier * Inspiration Glacier - Eldorado Peak * Isella Glacier * Jerry Glacier * Katsuk Glacier * Kimtah Glacier * Klawatti Glacier *

Ladder Creek Glacier Ladder Creek Glacier is in North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington and is a northwest tongue of the larger Neve Glacier. Ladder Creek Glacier added between 1950 and 1979, but lost from 1979 to 2006. Ladder Creek Glacier desc ...

* Lewis Glacier (Washington) * Lower Curtis Glacier * Lyall Glacier * Lyman Glacier (North Cascades) *

Lynch Glacier Lynch Glacier lies to the north and northwest of Mount Daniel, in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. Lynch Glacier is within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of Snoqualmie National Forest. The glacier is approximately in length, in widt ...

- Mount Daniel * Mary Green Glacier * McAllister Glacier * Mesahchie Glacier *

Middle Cascade Glacier Middle Cascade Glacier is in Wenatchee National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington and is to the north of Spider Mountain and east of Mount Formidable. Middle Cascade Glacier has a significant icefall that is thinning and may eventually separa ...

Neve Glacier Neve Glacier is in North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington and is on the north slopes of Snowfield Peak. Neve Glacier flows generally north and splits in two with two terminal tongues, one flowing to the northwest which is kn ...

- Snowfield Peak * Nohokomeen Glacier * Noisy Creek Glacier * North Klawatti Glacier * Overcoat Glacier *

Pilz Glacier Pilz Glacier (also known as ''Pit Glacier'') is in Wenatchee National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington and is on the north slopes Luahna Peak. Pilz Glacier descends from . An arête separates Pilz Glacier from Butterfly Glacier to the west. ...

* Price Glacier (Mount Shuksan) - Mount Shuksan * Queest-alb Glacier or (Three Fingers Glacier) * Quien Sabe Glacier * Redoubt Glacier - Mount Redoubt * Richardson Glacier (Washington) * S Glacier * Sahale Glacier *

Sandalee Glacier Sandalee Glacier is in North Cascades National Park and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area in the U.S. state of Washington, on the north and east slopes of McGregor Mountain. Sandalee Glacier originates in several cirques and extends from above ...

* Sherpa Glacier * Silver Glacier * Snow Creek Glacier * So-Bahli-Alhi Glacier * South Cascade Glacier * Spider Glacier (Phelps Ridge, Washington) * Spider Glacier (Spider Mountain, Washington) * Spire Glacier * Stuart Glacier * Sulphide Glacier - Mount Shuksan * Table Mountain Glacier * Terror Glacier (Washington) * Thunder Glacier (Skagit County, Washington) * Upper Curtis Glacier - Mount Shuksan * Watson Glacier * West Depot Glacier - Mount Redoubt * West Nooksack Glacier * Whatcom Glacier * White Salmon Glacier (Mount Shuksan) - Mount Shuksan * Wyeth Glacier *

Yawning Glacier Yawning Glacier is in North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington, on the east slopes of Magic Mountain. Yawning Glacier descends from . S Glacier lies to the south, and Cache Col Glacier is to the northwest. See also *List o ...

; Mount Baker * Bastile Glacier * Boulder Glacier * Coleman Glacier * Deming Glacier (Washington) *

Easton Glacier Easton Glacier is one of the more prominent alpine glaciers on Mount Baker in the North Cascades of Washington state, United States. Named for Charles F. Easton of Bellingham, who did much to preserve the history of Mount Baker, it is positioned o ...

* Hadley Glacier * Mazama Glacier * No Name Glacier *

Park Glacier Park Glacier is located on the northeast slopes of Mount Baker in the North Cascades of the U.S. state of Washington. Park Glacier descends to the Park Cliffs () along its eastern margin while the northern tongue of the glacier descends to nearl ...

* Rainbow Glacier (Washington) * Roosevelt Glacier * Sholes Glacier * Squak Glacier * Talum Glaciers *

Thunder Glacier (Mount Baker) Thunder Glacier is located on the west slopes of Mount Baker in the North Cascades of the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. The glacier descends to the west on the north side of the Black Buttes. See also *List of glaciers in the Uni ...

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Glacier Peak Glacier Peak or Dakobed (known in the Sauk-Suiattle dialect of the Lushootseed language as "Tda-ko-buh-ba" or "Takobia") is the most isolated of the five major stratovolcanoes (composite volcanoes) of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in the U.S state ...

* Chocolate Glacier * Cool Glacier * Dusty Glacier * Ermine Glacier * Honeycomb Glacier * Kennedy Glacier *

Milk Lake Glacier Milk Lake Glacier is located in the Glacier Peak Wilderness in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. The glacier is within Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and a little over northwest of Glacier Peak. Milk Lake Glacier disappeare ...

* North Guardian Glacier * Ptarmigan Glacier *

Scimitar Glacier Scimitar Glacier is located on the west and northwest slopes of Glacier Peak in the U.S. state of Washington. As is true with all the glaciers found on Glacier Peak, Scimitar Glacier is retreating. During the Little Ice Age Scimitar Glacier was con ...

Sitkum Glacier Sitkum Glacier is located on the west slopes of Glacier Peak in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. As is true with all the glaciers found on Glacier Peak, Sitkum Glacier is retreating. Sitkum Glacier is immediately south of Scimitar ...

Suiattle Glacier Suiattle Glacier is located in the Glacier Peak Wilderness in the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier is within Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and nearly touches Honeycomb and White River glaciers separated from them by an arête off th ...

* Vista Glacier * White Chuck Glacier * White River Glacier ; Mount Rainier * Carbon Glacier * Cowlitz Glacier * Edmunds Glacier * Emmons Glacier * Flett Glacier * Fryingpan Glacier - Little Tahoma *

Ingraham Glacier Ingraham Glacier is on the south-eastern flank of Mount Rainier, in the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier is named for the Mount Rainier enthusiast Edward Sturgis Ingraham. From the summit ice cap, Ingraham Glacier flows east between Gibraltar ...

* Inter Glacier * Kautz Glacier * Liberty Cap Glacier *

Nisqually Glacier The Nisqually Glacier is one of the larger glaciers on the southwestern face of Mount Rainier in the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier is one of the most easily viewed on the mountain, and is accessible from the Paradise visitor facilities in ...

* North Mowich Glacier * Ohanapecosh Glacier - Little Tahoma * Paradise Glacier * Pinnacle Glacier (Lewis County, Washington) * Puyallup Glacier * Pyramid Glacier * Russell Glacier * Sarvant Glacier — Cowlitz Chimneys * South Mowich Glacier * South Tahoma Glacier * Success Glacier * Tahoma Glacier * Unicorn Glacier (Extinct) * Van Trump Glacier * Wilson Glacier * Whitman Glacier - Little Tahoma * Williwakas Glacier *

Winthrop Glacier The Winthrop Glacier is a large glacier on the northeastern side of Mount Rainier in Washington. Named after Theodore Winthrop, the body of ice covers 3.5 mile2 (9.1 km2) and has a volume of 18.5 billion feet3 (523 million m3). Starting at o ...

; Goat Rocks * Conrad Glacier * McCall Glacier * Meade Glacier * Packwood Glacier ; Mount Adams * Adams Glacier * Avalanche Glacier * Crescent Glacier * Gotchen Glacier * Klickitat Glacier * Lava Glacier * Lyman Glacier * Mazama Glacier * Pinnacle Glacier *

Rusk Glacier Rusk Glacier is located on the eastern face of Mount Adams in the U.S. state of Washington. Starting at an elevation of over at just below The Castle, the glacier flows eastward down slope. A significant portion of the glacier is covered by ro ...

* Wilson Glacier * White Salmon Glacier ;

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. * Crater Glacier * Shoestring Glacier

Oregon

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

Wallowa Mountains The Wallowa Mountains () are a mountain range located in the Columbia Plateau of northeastern Oregon in the United States. The range runs approximately northwest to southeast in southwestern Wallowa County and eastern Union County between the ...

* Benson Glacier - Eagle Cap ; Mount Hood *

Coe Glacier Coe Glacier is in the U.S. state of Oregon. The glacier is situated in the Cascade Range on the north slope of Mount Hood, at an elevation between . Between 1907 and 2004, Coe Glacier lost 15% of its surface area. The glacier terminus retreated o ...

Coalman Glacier The Coalman Glacier (also Coleman Glacier) is a glacier located on the upper slopes of Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the mountain's highest glacier ranging from about , located within the crater rim, southwest of the peak. It was ...

* Eliot Glacier * Glisan Glacier *

Ladd Glacier Ladd Glacier is an alpine glacier on the north slope of Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies at an average elevation of . The glacier lies entirely within Mount Hood Wilderness. Between 1907 and 2004, Ladd Glacier lost 37% of its sur ...

* Langille Glacier * Newton Clark Glacier *

Palmer Glacier Palmer Glacier is a glacier on the south slopes of Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon. The glacier is situated at an elevation range of , and was named for Joel Palmer, an Oregon pioneer. Palmer Glacier is the most well-known of the twelve g ...

* Reid Glacier *

Sandy Glacier Sandy Glacier is an alpine glacier located on the west slope of Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon. It extends in elevation from about . The glacier is the source of Muddy Fork, a tributary of the Sandy River. The upper extent of the gl ...

* White River Glacier *

Zigzag Glacier Zigzag Glacier is an alpine glacier located on the upper southwest slopes of Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon. It ranges in elevation from with fingers in canyons extending to about , and lies almost entirely within Mount Hood Wilderness. ...

; Mount Jefferson * Jefferson Park Glacier * Milk Creek Glacier * Russell Glacier * Waldo Glacier * Whitewater Glacier ; 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 * Lathrop Glacier - Mount Thielsen

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. * Bolam Glacier * Hotlum Glacier * Konwakiton Glacier *

Mud Creek Glacier The Mud Creek Glacier is the southernmost glacier on Mount Shasta in the U.S. state of California. It lies to the east of Sargents Ridge on Shastarama point near above sea level. The glacier is smaller than the northern ones on Mount Shasta such ...

* Watkins Glacier *

Whitney Glacier The Whitney Glacier is a glacier situated on Mount Shasta, in the U.S. state of California. The Whitney Glacier is the longest glacier and the only valley glacier in California. In area and volume, it ranks second in the state behind the nearby H ...

* Wintun Glacier ; Sierra Nevada *

Conness Glacier The Conness Glacier is on the steep northeast cirque of Mount Conness, east of the Sierra Nevada crest, in the U.S. state of California. The glacier is situated at about . and can be seen from Saddlebag Lake to the east. The glacier is the larges ...

- Mount Conness * Dana Glacier - Mount Dana * Darwin Glacier - Mount Darwin * Goethe Glacier - Mount Goethe * Lilliput Glacier - Mount Stewart - southernmost glacier in the United States *

Lyell Glacier Lyell Glacier is in the Sierra Nevada of California. The glacier was discovered by John Muir in 1871, and was the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park. It lies on the northern slopes of Mount Lyell. The glacier has retreated since the end ...

- Mount Lyell * Maclure Glacier - Mount Maclure * Matthes Glaciers * Mendel Glacier - Mount Mendel *

Middle Palisade Glacier Middle Palisade Glacier consists of two glaciers in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the U.S. state of California. Less than southeast of Norman Clyde Glacier and situated at an altitude of , Middle Palisade Glacier is in the John Muir Wilderness o ...

- Middle Palisade * Mount Fiske Glacier - Mount Fiske * Mount Warlow Glacier - Mount Warlow *

Norman Clyde Glacier Norman Clyde Glacier is a small glacier located in the crest of the Sierra Nevada Range in the John Muir Wilderness of Inyo National Forest in Inyo County, California. The glacier is northwest of Norman Clyde Peak () and both are named after Cal ...

- Norman Clyde Peak * Palisade Glacier - North Palisade *

Powell Glacier Powell Glacier is located in the Sierra Nevada Range in the U.S. state of California. Just to the northeast of Mount Powell (), the glacier is within the John Muir Wilderness of Inyo National Forest at an elevation of . See also *List of glacier ...

- Mount Powell

Glaciers of Nevada (in the Basin and Range Province)

Basin and Range Province The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico. It is defined by unique basin and range topography, characterized by abrupt changes in elevation, alternating ...

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. * Wheeler Peak Glacier - Great Basin National Park

Glaciers of the Rocky Mountains

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 over 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 Fair Glacier is an alpine glacier located just west of Apache Peak, in Roosevelt National Forest in the U.S. state of Colorado. The glacier is immediately west of the Continental Divide on the opposite side of the divide from Isabelle Glacier. ...

- Apache Peak * Isabelle Glacier - Shoshone Peak *

Mills Glacier Mills Glacier is an alpine glacier near the base of the east mountain face of Longs Peak, in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado. See also *List of glaciers in the United States This is a list of glaciers existing in ...

- Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park * Moomaw Glacier * Navajo Glacier - North slope of Navajo Peak *

Peck Glacier Peck Glacier is an alpine glacier in Roosevelt National Forest in the U.S. state of Colorado. Peck Glacier is northwest of Fair Glacier. See also *List of glaciers in the United States References

Glaciers of Colorado Landforms of Gran ...

* Rowe Glacier * Saint Mary's Glacier *

Saint Vrain Glaciers The Saint Vrain Glaciers are small alpine glaciers located in Roosevelt National Forest in the U.S. state of Colorado. The glaciers are just south of Rocky Mountain National Park and east of the Continental Divide in northeast facing cirques. See ...

* Sprague Glacier *

Taylor Glacier __NOTOC__ The Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills, south of the Asgard Range. The middle part of the glacier is bounded ...

* The Dove - north of Longs Peak * Tyndall Glacier ''See als
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Montana

According to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), there are 60 named glaciers in Montana. * Agassiz Glacier (Montana), Agassiz Glacier - Glacier National Park (U.S.) * Ahern Glacier - Glacier National Park * Baby Glacier - Glacier National Park * Beartooth Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Blackfoot Glacier - Glacier National Park * Blackwell Glacier - Cabinet Mountains * Boulder Glacier (Montana) - Glacier National Park * Carter Glaciers - Glacier National Park * Castle Rock Glacier - Beartooth Mountains *

Chaney Glacier Chaney Glacier is in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is situated in a cirque to the southeast of Mount Kipp on the eastern side of the Continental Divide. Chaney Glacier is one of several glaciers that have bee ...

- Glacier National Park *

Dixon Glacier Dixon Glacier is located in the U.S. state of Montana in Glacier National Park. The glacier is situated in a cirque immediately to the north of The Sentinel at an elevation between and above sea level. Immediately east of the Continental Divid ...

- Glacier National Park * Fissure Glacier - Mission Mountains * Gem Glacier - Glacier National Park * Granite Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Grant Glacier - Flathead National Forest * Grasshopper Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Gray Wolf Glacier - Mission Mountains * Grinnell Glacier - Glacier National Park * Harris Glacier - Glacier National Park *

Harrison Glacier Harrison Glacier is a glacier located in the US state of Montana in Glacier National Park. Situated on a southeast‐facing ridge immediately south of Mount Jackson, it is the largest remaining glacier in Glacier National Park, estimated in 200 ...

- Glacier National Park * Herbst Glacier - Glacier National Park * Hidden Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Hopper Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Hudson Glacier - Glacier National Park *

Ipasha Glacier Ipasha Glacier is located in the US state of Montana in Glacier National Park (U.S.), Glacier National Park. The glacier is situated in a cirque to the southeast of Chaney Glacier and immediately east of the Continental Divide of the Americas, Co ...

- Glacier National Park *

Jackson Glacier Jackson Glacier is approximately the seventh largest of the remaining 25 glaciers in Glacier National Park located in the US state of Montana. A part of the largest grouping of glaciers in the park, Jackson Glacier rests on the north side of Mou ...

- Glacier National Park * Kintla Glacier - Glacier National Park * Logan Glacier - Glacier National Park * Lupfer Glacier - Glacier National Park *

McDonald Glacier The McDonald Glacier is in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is in the Mission Mountains at an elevation of above sea level and is immediately north of McDonald Peak. The glacier covers approximately and is located in a cirque below McDon ...

- Mission Mountains *

Miche Wabun Glacier Miche Wabun Glacier is a glacier remnant (glacieret) in the U.S. state of Montana in the northeastern region of Glacier National Park. The glacieret is situated in a cirque to the east of Goat Haunt Mountain. Miche Wabun Glacier was measured in ...

- Glacier National Park * Mountaineer Glacier - Mission Mountains *

North Swiftcurrent Glacier North Swiftcurrent Glacier is a glacier in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. It is situated immediately to the east of the Continental Divide and north of Swiftcurrent Mountain at an elevation between and above sea level. No ...

- Glacier National Park * Old Sun Glacier - Glacier National Park * Phantom Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Piegan Glacier - Glacier National Park *

Pumpelly Glacier Pumpelly Glacier is in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is situated immediately northeast of Blackfoot Mountain at an elevation between above sea level. Pumpelly Glacier is just west of the Continental Divide an ...

- Glacier National Park *

Pumpkin Glacier Pumpkin Glacier is a glacier in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. It is northeast of Blackfoot Mountain and adjacent to Pumpelly Glacier, the two glaciers separated by crevasses. Pumpkin Glacier covers approximately at elev ...

- Glacier National Park * Rainbow Glacier - Glacier National Park * Red Eagle Glacier - Glacier National Park * Sexton Glacier - Glacier National Park * Shepard Glacier - Glacier National Park * Siyeh Glacier - Glacier National Park * Sky Top Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Snowbank Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Sperry Glacier - Glacier National Park * Stanton Glacier - Flathead National Forest * Sundance Glacier - Beartooth Mountains * Sunrise Glacier - Mission Mountains * Swan Glaciers - Swan Range * Swiftcurrent Glacier - Glacier National Park * The Salamander Glacier - Glacier National Park *

Thunderbird Glacier Thunderbird Glacier is in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is situated on the east side Continental Divide below Thunderbird Mountain at an average elevation of above sea level. As of 2005, Thunderbird Glacier cons ...

- Glacier National Park * Two Ocean Glacier - Glacier National Park * Vulture Glacier (Montana) - Glacier National Park * Weasel Collar Glacier - Glacier National Park * Whitecrow Glacier - Glacier National Park * Wolf Glacier - Beartooth Mountains

Utah

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

Timpanogos Glacier Timpanogos Glacier is a rock glacier located on Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range within the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness (in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest) in northeastern Utah County, Utah, United States, and is the last known g ...

- Wasatch Range

Wyoming

According to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), there are 37 named glaciers in Wyoming. * American Legion Glacier - Wind River Range * Baby Glacier - Wind River Range *

Bull Lake Glacier Bull Lake Glacier is located immediately east of the Continental Divide of the Americas, Continental Divide in the northern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The glacier is in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest, and ...

- Wind River Range * Cloud Peak Glacier - Bighorn Mountains * Connie Glacier - Wind River Range *

Continental Glacier In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than . The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the Last Glacial Period at La ...

- Wind River Range * Dinwoody Glacier - Wind River Range * Downs Glacier - Wind River Range * Dry Creek Glacier - Wind River Range * DuNoir Glacier - Absaroka Mountains * East Torrey Glacier - Wind River Range * Falling Ice Glacier - Teton Range * Fishhawk Glacier - Absaroka Mountains * Gannett Glacier - Wind River Range * Gooseneck Glacier - Wind River Range * Grasshopper Glacier - Wind River Range * Harrower Glacier - Wind River Range * Heap Steep Glacier - Wind River Range *

Helen Glacier Helen Glacier is located east of the Continental Divide in the northern Wind River Range in the US state of Wyoming. The glacier is located in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest, and is among the largest grouping of glacie ...

- Wind River Range * Hooker Glacier - Wind River Range * J Glacier - Wind River Range *

Klondike Glacier Klondike Glacier is in Shoshone National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming on the east of the Continental Divide in the Wind River Range. Klondike Glacier is in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness, and descends from the northeastern slopes of Pedesta ...

- Wind River Range Schoolroom Glacier from Hurricane Pass

* Knife Point Glacier - Wind River Range * Lander Glacier - Wind River Range * Lizard Head Glacier - Wind River Range *

Lower Fremont Glacier Lower Fremont Glacier is east of the Continental Divide in the northern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The glacier is in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest, and is among the largest grouping of glaciers in the ...

- Wind River Range * Mammoth Glacier - Wind River Range * Middle Teton Glacier - Teton Range * Minor Glacier - Wind River Range * Petersen Glacier - Teton Range * Sacagawea Glacier - Wind River Range * Schoolroom Glacier - Teton Range * Skillet Glacier - Teton Range * Sourdough Glacier - Wind River Range * Sphinx Glacier - Wind River Range * Stroud Glacier - Wind River Range * Teepe Glacier - Teton Range * Teton Glacier - Teton Range * Tiny Glacier - Wind River Range * Triple Glaciers - Teton Range * Twins Glacier - Wind River Range *

Upper Fremont Glacier Upper Fremont Glacier is in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. This Wind River Range alpine glacier is associated with the largest grouping of glaciers in the U.S. Rocky Mountains and lies on the ...

- Wind River Range * Washakie Glacier - Wind River Range * Wind River Glacier - Wind River Range

Notes

Reported in 2020 to have disappeared.

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