Mendenhall Lake

Mendenhall Lake
Location	Juneau, Alaska
Coordinates	58°25′24″N 134°34′10″W
Primary inflows	Mendenhall Glacier, Steep Creek, Nugget Creek
Primary outflows	Mendenhall River
Basin countries	United States of America
Max. width	1.8 miles (2.9 km)
Surface elevation	52 ft (16 m)

Mendenhall Lake is a lake in the Mendenhall Valley at the 1962 terminus of Mendenhall Glacier, 3 miles (4.8 km) North of the Juneau City and Borough Airport in the Coast Mountains. It is the source of the short Mendenhall River.

Name

Like other geographic features with Mendenhall in their title, Mendenhall Lake is named for physicist and meteorologist Thomas Corwin Mendenhall.

Local name derived from the Mendenhall Glacier and published in 1962 by United States Geological Survey. In 1909, the lake was called McCush Lake by miners because Neil McCush had mining property near it (DeArmond, 1957, p. 31).