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Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint

You can see 65 km from here, looking south-east.

58Viewyas Score

ViewpointSunsetSea view360°

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 65 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.

58out 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).

  • 65 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
  • 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 44%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 147 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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 in September.

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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  2. Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset15%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset16%
  5. Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  6. Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  7. Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  11. Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  12. Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  • 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

Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint.

State park in Oregon, USA

Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint is a scenic viewpoint in United States, 147 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 65 km away, looking south-east.

The sea fills 44% of the horizon.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in September.

Otter crest state scenic viewpoint
Finetooth · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Otter Crest State Scenic ViewpointGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Otter Crest State Scenic ViewpointBooking.comSee prices Car hire at EUG airport (Eugene)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.

Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint 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

  • 11other viewpoints within 5 kmWhale Cove Viewing Platform and 10 more
  • 1named peaks within 5 kmRocky Top
  • 1marked trails within 3 kmOregon Coast Trail
  • 15car parks within 3 km
  • 2visitor centres within 5 kmCape Foulweather Visitor Center
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmHiker/Biker, Boiler Bay RV Park, Pacific Shores MotorCoach Resort and 4 more
  • 17places to stay within 10 kmWhale Cove Inn, SCP Depoe Bay, Channel House and 14 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • shelters and huts 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 Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint, and what is near.

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

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Iron Mountain · 7.6 kmSiletz Hill · 7.7 kmCannery Mountain · 15 kmBuford Hill · 15 kmEuchre Mountain · 18 kmBall Mountain · 20 kmDiamond Peak · 24 kmGobblers Knob · 24 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Moolack Beach · 6.8 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.

Chipmunk at Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint, Oregon
Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0
Oregon - view north along coast from Otter Rock 01
Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0
Otter Crest expanded view 20180622 121828
Swarabakti · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint

United States

  • 58Viewyas Score
  • 65 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 147 mAltitude

Whale Watching Center

United States · 6 km

  • 54Viewyas Score
  • 19 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 24 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Hood

United States · 198 km

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 37Peaks in view
  • 3,376 mAltitude

See the guide

Vista House

United States · 167 km

  • 64Viewyas Score
  • 99 kmFarthest ridge
  • 10Peaks in view
  • 220 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7109379) · 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, Coastya

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

The family

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