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Reads Landing Overlook

You can see 29 km from here, looking north-west.

38Viewyas Score

Viewpoint

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 29 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.

38out 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).

  • 29 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 84%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 310 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 from July to 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. Jansouth286 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  2. Febsouth-west162 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  3. Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  4. Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  5. Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  6. Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  7. Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  8. Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  9. Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  10. Octsouth-west110 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  11. Novsouth212 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  12. Decsouth260 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  • 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

Reads Landing Overlook.

Reads Landing Overlook is a scenic viewpoint in United States, 310 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 29 km away, looking north-west.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 84% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to September.

Reads Landing Overlook historical marker
McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Reads Landing OverlookGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Reads Landing OverlookBooking.comSee prices Car hire at LSE airport (La Crosse)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.

Reads Landing Overlook 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

  • 2other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmLake Pepin Campground, Richard J. Dorer State Forest- Kruger Campground, Nelson's Landing RV Park and 2 more
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmGreat River Amish Inn, AmericInn by Wyndham, Coffee Mill Inn & Suites and 1 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Reads Landing Overlook, and what is near.

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

Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
Rattlesnake Hill · 3.8 kmWabasha Hill · 5.0 kmGreenfield Hill · 9.6 kmHorrigan Hill · 16 kmFoley Mound · 19 kmCotter Hill · 19 kmKohn Hill · 22 kmEau Galle Mound · 24 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Mississippi River3,766 km · 12,743 m³/sChippewa River294 kmBee BranchRoot River

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.

Reads Landing Overlook 2016
McGhiever · CC BY-SA 4.0
Reads Landing, Minnesota
Wikideas1 · CC0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Reads Landing Overlook

United States

  • 38Viewyas Score
  • 29 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 310 mAltitude

Stillwater Overlook

United States · 89 km

  • 48Viewyas Score
  • 28 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 262 mAltitude

See the guide

Preston Overlook

United States · 82 km

  • 44Viewyas Score
  • 12 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 314 mAltitude

See the guide

Kenney Lake Overlook

United States · 253 km

  • 49Viewyas Score
  • 36 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 396 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q48744268) · 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, Riveryas

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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