United States observation tower
Hot Springs Mountain Tower
You can see 77 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 77 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).
- 77 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 312 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 3 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 August 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset58%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- 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
Hot Springs Mountain Tower.
Observation tower
Hot Springs Mountain Tower is an observation tower in United States, 312 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 77 km away, looking west.
3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Shinall Mountain (326 m), 59 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from August to October.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Gulpha Gorge Campgroundcampsite · 1.2 km · 4 within 10 km
- Arlington Resort Hotel & Spaplace to stay · 0.6 km · 32 within 10 km
- Hot Springsnearest town · 1.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Hot SpringsBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Memorial Field Airport (HOT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire in Little RockDiscover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 kmGoat Rock Viewpoint and 3 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmHot Springs Mountain, North Mountain, Sugarloaf Mountain
- 5marked trails within 3 kmSunset Trail, Gulpha Gorge Trail, Oertel Trail and 2 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 60car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmFordyce Bathhouse Vistor Center
- 11restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmGulpha Gorge Campground, Timbercrest RV & Mobile Home Park, Catherine's Landing and 1 more
- 32places to stay within 10 kmArlington Resort Hotel & Spa, Embassy Suites, The B Inn and 29 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Hot Springs Mountain Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees 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.
Hot Springs Mountain Tower
United States
- 61Viewyas Score
- 77 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 312 mAltitude
Texas Star
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- —Peaks in view
- 139 mAltitude
Reunion Tower
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- 53Viewyas Score
- 37 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1576874) · 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, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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