{{short description|Lake in the United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Mendenhall Lake | image = Frozen Lake of Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier.JPG | caption = The lake, mostly frozen over, and the Mendenhall Glacier | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = Juneau, Alaska | coords = {{coord|58|25|24|N|134|34|10|W|region:US-AK_type:waterbody_source:GNIS|display=inline,title|name=Mendenhall Lake (Juneau)}}<ref name=GNIS-ML>{{Gnis|1406232}}</ref> | type = | inflow = Mendenhall Glacier, Steep Creek, Nugget Creek | outflow = Mendenhall River | catchment = | basin_countries = United States | length = | width = {{Convert|1.8|mi|km}}<ref name=GNIS-ML/> | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = {{convert|52|ft|m|abbr=on}}<ref name=GNIS-ML/> | islands = | cities = | frozen = <!-- Map --> | pushpin_map = Alaska#North America | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Location of Mendenhall Lake in Alaska, USA. | pushpin_map_caption = <!-- Below --> | website = | reference = }}

'''Mendenhall Lake''' (Tlingit: ''Sit'.áa'') is a proglacial lake in the Mendenhall Valley at the 1962 terminus of Mendenhall Glacier, {{Convert|3|mi|km|spell=in}} north of the Juneau Airport in the Coast Mountains. It is the source of the short Mendenhall River.<ref name=GNIS-ML/> The lake is included in the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area of the Tongass National Forest.<ref name="USFSPlanning">[http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37050 Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area Planning], United States Forest Service</ref>

==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.&nbsp;31).<ref name=GNIS-ML/>

== References == [[File:Mendenhall Ice Dragon 21Sep2007.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Melting ice on Mendenhall Lake near the start of the Mendenhall River with Nugget Falls in the background. For reference, the glacier is to the left and visitor center to the right.]] {{Reflist}}

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Category:Lakes of Juneau, Alaska Category:Lakes of Alaska Category:Proglacial lakes

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