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Jackson Glacier
- Area
- 0.14 km²
- Lowest point
- 2,249 m
- Tonight
- 22°FPartly cloudy · Wind 7 mph N
Jackson Glacier in Montana, United States covers 0.14 km² and spans 2,249–2,636 m above sea level.
All facts
- Highest point
- 2,636 m
Jackson Glacier: size and slope
Drawn to scale from the OpenStreetMap outline and the Copernicus 30 m terrain model.
- Vertical range
- 387 m
- Mean slope
- 38°
- Faces
- northmostly shaded
Jackson Glacier 3D map
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Jackson Glacier terrain and contours
50 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Jackson Glacier elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Jackson Glacier weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 22°F (-6°C) · 8% chance of precipitation · Wind 7 mph N
Jackson Glacier forecast for about 2,219 m.
- Tonight22°8%7 mph N
- Sat22°32°4%5–10 mph SW
- Sun20°29°–9–14 mph ENE
- Mon26°37°19%6 mph N
- Tue22°32°64%9 mph W
- Wed18°27°50%6–9 mph NW
- Thu19°28°19%6 mph WSW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 24, 00:21 UTC.
Camping & parking near Jackson Glacier
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Jackson Glacier, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Gunsight Lake
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Gunsight LakeCampsite | 3.3 km N |
| Lake Ellen WilsonCampsite | 3.9 km W |
| Lincoln LakeCampsite | 5.5 km W |
Slope
Share of the 3 × 3 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 53.2% of the 9 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,427 m low point 1,353 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Jackson Glacier sits
- Region
- Montana24United States932North America1,313
- Protected area
- Glacier National Park12
Nearby places
Harrison Glacier↑2.6 km W
Logan Pass2,025 m↑11 km N
Saint Mary Lake1,367 m↑15 km NE
Cracker Lake↑17 km NNE
Grinnell Glacier2,100 m↑18 km N
More in the Rocky Mountains 6
Jackson Glacier downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-31)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)