Aerial photos of Knik Glacier, Knik River and the surrounding area. This glacier achieved some notoriety prior to 1966 since the glacier flowed up against the Chugach mountains, forming Lake George behind it's wall of ice. Each spring a devastating wall of water ice and debris would rush out when the ice-dam broke, in what Icelanders refer to as a jökulhlaup, a difficult to pronounce word that means "glacier-burst".

Located just 50 miles north-east of Anchorage, over 25 miles long, and 5 miles wide, the glacier can only be reached by foot, all terrain vehicle, boat or air.

Part of the motion picture "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" was filmed on Knik Glacier in 1991.