Herbst Glacier is located in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Montana

Montana

Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

 in Glacier National Park. The glacier is northeast of Mount Custer

Mount Custer

Mount Custer is located in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Situated along the Continental Divide, Mount Custer rises more than above Lake Nooney, located below the summit to the east. Herbst Glacier is immediately northeast of the peak....

 at an elevation between 7000 feet (2,133.6 m) and 8000 feet (2,438.4 m) above sea level. The glacier covers an area of approximately 13 acre (0.05260918 km²) and does not meet the threshold of 25 acre (0.1011715 km²) often cited as being the minimum size to qualify as an active glacier. Between 1966 and 2005, the glacier lost almost 70 percent of its acreage.

See also

• List of glaciers in the United States
• Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
  Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
  There are at least 35 named glaciers in Glacier National Park . In 1850, Glacier had 150 glaciers. There are 25 active glaciers remaining in the park today. Since the ice ages stopped 10,000 years ago, there have been many slight climate shifts causing periods of glacier growth or melt-back...