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Waterpocket Fold

You can see 30 km from here, looking north-east.

36Viewyas Score

Cliff

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 30 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.

36out 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).

  • 30 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 76%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,838 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 2 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 Ellen3,507 m · 29 km · eastRagged Mountain2,778 m · 32 km · east

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 June and from September 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.

  1. Jansouth242 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  2. Febsouth-west160 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  3. Marwest96 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  4. Aprwest90 min before the sea-level sunset45%
  5. Maywest104 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  6. Junwest114 min before the sea-level sunset64%
  7. Julwest110 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  8. Augwest94 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  9. Sepwest94 min before the sea-level sunset65%
  10. Octsouth-west140 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  11. Novsouth-west206 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  12. Decsouth274 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  • 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

Waterpocket Fold.

Cliff in Wayne County, Utah, United States

Waterpocket Fold is a cliff in United States, 1,838 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 30 km away, looking north-east.

2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Ellen (3,507 m), 29 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 76% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in June and from September to October.

View of Scenic Drive from Fremont Gorge Overlook Trail (26cbe2ec-de21-4c54-b4b7-5fcfa699744e)
NPS · Public domain

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Waterpocket FoldGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Waterpocket FoldBooking.comSee prices Car hire at CNY airport (Moab)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.

Waterpocket Fold 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

  • 1named peaks within 5 kmBitter Point
  • 1campsites within 10 kmCedar Mesa Campground
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres 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 Waterpocket Fold, and what is near.

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

Peakyas26 mountains within 25 km
Lamp Stand · 5.8 kmImpossible Peak · 14 kmStudhorse Peaks · 17 kmPeak-a-boo Rock · 19 kmEPH Hanks Tower1,991 m · 21 kmGolden Throne · 23 kmDeer Mountain · 24 kmPioneer Mesa · 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Capitol Reef National ParkBortle 2 · 20 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.

Waterpocketfold
Unknown author · Public domain
Notom Road, Capitol Reef NP
John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA · CC BY 2.0
BURR TRAIL SCENIC BACKWAY, UTAH AT WATERPOCKET FOLD
CROCKERBD · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Waterpocket Fold

United States

  • 36Viewyas Score
  • 30 kmFarthest ridge
  • 2Peaks in view
  • 1,838 mAltitude

Pink Cliffs

United States · 115 km

  • 66Viewyas Score
  • 189 kmFarthest ridge
  • 8Peaks in view
  • 2,629 mAltitude

See the guide

Antelope Canyon

United States · 131 km

  • 69Viewyas Score
  • 134 kmFarthest ridge
  • 5Peaks in view
  • 1,369 mAltitude

See the guide

Big Springs Lookout Tower

United States · 192 km

  • 83Viewyas Score
  • 193 kmFarthest ridge
  • 39Peaks in view
  • 2,414 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1573044) · 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, Darkskyas

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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