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Mount Lofty Fire Tower

You can see 153 km from here, looking north.

80Viewyas Score

TowerSunset360°Long view

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 153 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.

80out of 100

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).

  • 153 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 8%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 707 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 6 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.

Mount Crawford526 m · 41 km · north-eastMount Beevor503 m · 30 km · eastMount Barker517 m · 22 km · south-eastTroubridge Hill31 m · 100 km · westMount Lofty727 m · 0.9 km · north-west

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 December to March.

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.

  1. Jansouth-westsets on an open horizon63%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon62%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon61%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon55%
  5. Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon53%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon53%
  7. Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon54%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon54%
  11. Novsouth-westsets on an open horizon54%
  12. Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon57%
  • 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

Mount Lofty Fire Tower.

Fire lookout tower in Adelaide Hills

Mount Lofty Fire Tower is an observation tower in Australia, 707 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 153 km away, looking north.

The sea fills 8% of the horizon.

6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Lofty (727 m), 1 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from December to March.

Fire Tower 01a
Bilbao06 · Public domain

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mount Lofty Fire TowerGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mount Lofty Fire TowerBooking.comSee prices Car hire at ADL airport (Adelaide)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Mount Lofty Fire Tower seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 15other viewpoints within 5 kmSugarloaf Hill, Mount Lofty Summit Lookout, Kensington Road Lookout and 12 more
  • 9named peaks within 5 kmMount Lofty, Castle Rock, Sugarloaf Hill and 6 more
  • 8marked trails within 3 kmWaterfall Gully Trail, Yurrebilla Trail Section 1, Yurrebilla Trail Section 2 and 5 more
  • 34shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 44car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmMount Lofty Summit Visitor Information Centre
  • 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmWoodhouse Scout Activity Centre, Brownhill Creek Caravan Park, Unpowered camping - no cars and 6 more
  • 75places to stay within 10 kmMount Lofty House, Crafers Cottages, Fernlea Bed and Breakfast and 72 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 Mount Lofty Fire Tower, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas88 mountains within 25 km
Mount Lofty727 m · 0.9 kmMount Bonython677 m · 1.2 kmBrown Hill, Mitcham312 m · 6.7 kmWarrakilla Hill · 11 kmMontefiore Hill · 13 kmTapleys Hill · 15 kmMount Barker517 m · 22 kmWickhams Hill · 24 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Kangaroo Creek Reservoir0.3 km² · 14 kmHope Valley Reservoir0.4 km² · 14 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees within 15 km
Mount Lofty Botanic Garden · 1.7 kmWittunga Botanic Garden · 10 kmAdelaide Botanic Garden · 11 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
The Heights ObservatoryBortle 8 · 18 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
First Falls · 2.6 kmMorialta Falls · 7.8 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

ADH Mount Lofty fire tower
User:Orderinchaos · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fire Spotting Tower (6260674443)
Dwayne Madden from Berri, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) female Mount Lofty 4
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6921867) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit