United States scenic viewpoint
Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint
You can see 66 km from here, looking south-east.
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 66 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).
- 66 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 14Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 836 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 14 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-west16 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset76%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset72%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Decsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- 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
Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint.
State park in Oregon, USA
Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint is a scenic viewpoint in United States, 836 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 66 km away, looking south-east.
14 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hood (3,425 m), 116 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% 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↗
- Crooked River Ranch RV Parkcampsite · 5.3 km · 7 within 10 km
- Terrebonnenearest town · 4.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TerrebonneBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Roberts Field (RDM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at RDM airport (Redmond)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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmPeter Skene Ogden Scenic Viewpoint and 4 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmCoyote Butte, Monkey Face, Smith Rock
- 1marked trails within 3 kmCole Loop Trail
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmSmith Rock Welcome Center
- 7campsites within 10 kmCrooked River Ranch RV Park, Smith Rock Bivouac Area, Henderson Flats Camp Site and 4 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- places to stay within 10 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 Peter Skene Ogden 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.
Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint
United States
- 66Viewyas Score
- 66 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 836 mAltitude
Mount Hood
United States · 116 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 37Peaks in view
- 3,376 mAltitude
Mount Adams
United States · 203 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 105Peaks in view
- 3,734 mAltitude
Vista House
United States · 152 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 99 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 220 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2078374) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, 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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