Mammoth Glacier | |
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Type | Mountain glacier |
Location | Sublette County, Wyoming, USA |
Coordinates | [1] |
Length | 1.4 mi (2.3 km) |
Terminus | talus |
Status | retreating |
Mammoth Glacier is located in Bridger-Teton National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming on the west side of the Continental Divide. Mammoth Glacier is the largest glacier on the west side of the Continental Divide of the Wind River Range and occupies a large, north facing cirque, just west of Mount Woodrow Wilson.[2] Mammoth Glacier is in the Bridger Wilderness and is part of the largest grouping of glaciers in the American Rocky Mountains. The glacier flows northwest.