United States scenic viewpoint
High Rock
You can see 166 km from here, looking south-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 166 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).
- 166 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 49Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 572 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 49 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 October.
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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- 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
High Rock.
Mountain summit in Washington County, Maryland
High Rock is a scenic viewpoint in United States, 572 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 166 km away, looking south-west.
49 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hogback Mountain (1,058 m), 122 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to October.
Get there and stay
- Raven Rock Shelter AT Camping Areacampsite · 2.5 km · 15 within 10 km
- Nesiya Lodgeplace to stay · 5.1 km · 9 within 10 km
- Highfield-Cascadenearest town · 4.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Highfield-CascadeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Hagerstown Regional Richard A Henson Field (HGR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at IAD airport (Dulles)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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 kmHigh Rock
- 5named peaks within 5 kmMount Dunlop, Buzzard Knob, High Rock and 2 more
- 4marked trails within 3 kmCatoctin National Recreation Trail, Appalachian Trail, Tuscalachian Loop and 1 more
- 15shelters and huts within 5 kmRaven Rock Shelter, Tent 11, Tent 10 and 12 more
- 7car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 15campsites within 10 kmRaven Rock Shelter AT Camping Area, Adirondack Shelters Camping Area, Owens Creek Campground and 12 more
- 9places to stay within 10 kmNesiya Lodge, Ben Gurion, Lodge Aleph and 6 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 High Rock, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas73 mountains within 25 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.
High Rock
United States
- 76Viewyas Score
- 166 kmFarthest ridge
- 49Peaks in view
- 572 mAltitude
Wonder Wheel
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- 76Viewyas Score
- 73 kmFarthest ridge
- 30Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Statue of Liberty
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- 64Viewyas Score
- 58 kmFarthest ridge
- 24Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
The Palisades
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- 44Viewyas Score
- 43 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 0 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q31599577) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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