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Devil's Slide

You can see 52 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 52 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.

55out 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).

  • 52 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
  • 92%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 9Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 1,996 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 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.

  1. Jansouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  2. Febwest30 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  3. Marwest30 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  4. Aprwest32 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  5. Maynorth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  6. Junnorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  7. Julnorth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  8. Augwest28 min before the sea-level sunset57%
  9. Sepwest26 min before the sea-level sunset52%
  10. Octwest30 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  11. Novsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  12. Decsouth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  • 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

Devil's Slide.

Mountain in United States of America

Devil's Slide is a cliff in United States, 1,996 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 52 km away, looking south-east.

9 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Electric Peak (3,341 m), 10 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 92% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Devils Slide (8037171934)
Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK · CC BY 2.0

Get there and stay

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.

Devil's Slide 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

  • 1other viewpoints within 5 kmPullout
  • 2named peaks within 5 kmCinnabar Mountain, Deaf Jim Knob
  • 4shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmYellowstone RV Park, Rocky Mountain Campground, Eagle Creek Campground and 3 more
  • 17places to stay within 10 kmYellowstone Basin Inn, North Yellowstone Lodge & Hostel, Yellowstone Village Inn & Suites and 14 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • visitor centres 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 Devil's Slide, and what is near.

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

Peakyas50 mountains within 25 km
Electric Peak3,341 m · 10 kmSepulcher Mountain2,939 m · 12 kmJoseph Peak3,176 m · 16 kmGray Peak3,139 m · 18 kmAsh Mountain3,124 m · 20 kmEmigrant Peak3,327 m · 20 kmQuadrant Mountain3,034 m · 21 kmBannock Peak3,137 m · 23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Golden Gate CanyonBortle 2 · 18 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Golden Gate Canyon · 18 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.

DevilsSlideMontana2009
Mike Cline · Public domain
DevilsSlide1965
Repogle · Public domain
DevilsSlideParkCountyMontana2009
Mike Cline · Public domain

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  • 55Viewyas Score
  • 52 kmFarthest ridge
  • 9Peaks in view
  • 1,996 mAltitude

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Obsidian Cliff

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  • 46Viewyas Score
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  • 3Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5267224) · 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, Canyonyas, 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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