Kennicott Glacier is a glacier in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska, within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, trending southeast for 43 kilometers from Mount Blackburn to its terminus at the head of the Kennicott River near the towns of McCarthy and the ghost town of Kennecott. It was named in 1899 by geologist Oscar Rohn of the United States Geological Survey for Robert Kennicott, an early Alaska explorer who led the scientific corps of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in 1865. The nunatak Packsaddle Island rises within the glacier's ice near the base of Mount Blackburn, and the glacier is currently retreating.
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