Mendenhall Valley Homes for Rent

About three thousand years ago, the Mendenhall Glacier slowly shed its ice and pushed north through the Alaskan Boundary Ranges. Mendenhall Valley was the result of that process, and it’s still being carved out of the rock today. The neighborhood has changed since the Little Ice Age, though, and now a majority of Juneau’s 32,000 full-time residents live here. “The valley is what you’d call in-your-face beauty,” says PeggyAnn McConochie, a resident since 1980 and a real estate consultant with ACH Consulting. “There’s nowhere you can stand where it’s not gobsmackingly gorgeous, whether you’re looking at the glacier, the Mendenhall Lake or the Mendenhall River. We’ve got deer everywhere, and black bears usually come down from the mountains and visit. We get marmots, seals, river otters and porcupines, too.” The valley is surrounded by Tongass National Forest, and it’s just west of giant Thunder Mountain. In addition to this neighborhood’s parks and trails, it also has some of the most popular shopping and dining in the Alexander Archipelago. Its two malls differentiate it from more isolated parts of Juneau, where modern amenities aren't as common. Mendenhall Glacier attracts about