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Closures, summer hours for Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center
Juneau, Alaska –
Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center will be closed starting Monday April 1, 2019, in preparation for the upcoming summer season.
The visitor center will be reopen with limited hours Sunday April 28, 2019 through Wednesday May 1, 2019.
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Sunday April 28: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Monday April 29: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Tuesday April 30: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Wednesday May 1: 11:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Regular summer hours of 8:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. start Thursday May 2, 2019. Outdoor areas around the visitor center are open 6 a.m. to midnight, year-round. For more information, call 907-789-0097. Follow Mendenhall Glacier activities on the web page at
www.mendenhallglacier.net and Facebook at
MendenhallGlacierVC. For interviews and information to be used for publication, contact the Tongass Public Affairs Officer at 907-228-6201.
The mission of the USDA Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.
The agency manages 193 million acres of public land, provides assistance to state and private landowners and maintains the largest forestry research organization in the world. Public lands the Forest Service manages contribute more than $13 billion to the
economy each year through visitor spending alone. Those same lands provide 30 percent of the nation’s surface drinking water to cities and rural communities and approximately 66 million Americans rely on drinking water that originated from the National Forest
System. The agency also has either a direct or indirect role in stewardship of about 900 million forested acres within the U.S., of which over 130 million acres are urban forests where most Americans live. # |
