United States canyon rim
Columbia River Gorge
You can see 19 km from here, looking west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 19 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 19 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 88%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 22 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from July to August.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Febwest18 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Marwest24 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwest24 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Junnorth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Julnorth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset75%
- Augwest26 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Sepwest24 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Octwest18 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Novsouth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Decsouth-west86 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Columbia River Gorge.
Canyon along the border of Oregon and Washington in the United States
Columbia River Gorge is a canyon rim in United States, 22 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 19 km away, looking west.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Table Mountain (1,042 m), 15 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 88% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Home Valley Campgroundcampsite · 1.5 km · 19 within 10 km
- Wild Mountain Resortplace to stay · 1.7 km · 13 within 10 km
- Carsonnearest town · 3.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in CarsonBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Portland International Airport (PDX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 64 km in a straight lineCar hire at PDX airport (Portland)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 2other viewpoints within 5 km
- 4named peaks within 5 kmBuck Mountain, Wind Mountain, Shellrock Mountain and 1 more
- 1marked trails within 3 kmHerman Creek Trail
- 18car parks within 3 km
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 19campsites within 10 kmHome Valley Campground, Deadwood Camp, Herman Creek Camp and 16 more
- 13places to stay within 10 kmWild Mountain Resort, Carson Hot Springs Resort, Carson Ridge Cabins and 10 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Columbia River Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas63 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas10 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Columbia River Gorge
United States
- 43Viewyas Score
- 19 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 22 mAltitude
Mount Hood
United States · 38 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 37Peaks in view
- 3,376 mAltitude
Mount Adams
United States · 60 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 105Peaks in view
- 3,734 mAltitude
Mount St. Helens
United States · 63 km
- 80Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 96Peaks in view
- 2,505 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1112581) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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