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Glen Canyon

You can see 17 km from here, looking south-west.

38Viewyas Score

Canyon rim

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 17 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).

  • 17 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
  • 82%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 967 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 June and 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-west28 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  2. Febwest38 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  3. Marwest44 min before the sea-level sunset48%
  4. Aprwest48 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  5. Maywest48 min before the sea-level sunset57%
  6. Junwest56 min before the sea-level sunset69%
  7. Julwest50 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  8. Augwest46 min before the sea-level sunset53%
  9. Sepwest44 min before the sea-level sunset64%
  10. Octwest36 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  11. Novsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  12. Decsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  • 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

Glen Canyon.

Canyon in southern Utah and northern Arizona, United States

Glen Canyon is a canyon rim in United States, 967 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 17 km away, looking south-west.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 82% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in June and in September.

Colorado River downstream of Glen Canyon Dam, Page, Arizona - April 2026
Christian David · 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 Glen CanyonGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Glen CanyonBooking.comSee prices Car hire at SGU airport (St George)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Glen Canyon 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 kmSpencer Trail Lookout
  • 4named peaks within 5 kmEcho Peak, Five Mile Point, Johnson Point and 1 more
  • 2marked trails within 3 kmSpencer Trail, Cathedral Wash
  • 6car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmLee's Ferry Campground, Lees Ferry Campground, 6 Mile and 8 more
  • 24places to stay within 10 kmMarble Canyon Lodge, Days Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites and 21 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 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 Glen Canyon, and what is near.

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

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Johnson Point · 2.2 kmEcho Peak · 3.1 kmFive Mile Point · 6.7 kmBush Head1,839 m · 14 kmCedar Mountain · 18 kmLittle Knoll · 22 kmAh Hol Sah · 23 kmCummings Mesa · 23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Buckskin GulchBortle 2 · 29 km
Canyonyas4 canyons within 20 km
Glen Canyon · this placeParia Canyon · 0.4 kmGlen Canyon · 2.4 kmMarble Canyon · 2.4 kmAntelope Canyon · 18 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Colorado River2,334 km · 640 m³/sParia River121 kmChemehuevi WashThunder 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.

Colorado River edit
Adrille (edit by Aqwis ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
From Hole in the Rock looking South East across the Colorado River in Glen Canyon at Mile 84.4
Ken Bertossi · Public domain
Glen Canyon Dam MC
Christian Mehlführer, User:Chmehl · CC BY 2.5

Other viewpoints nearby.

Glen Canyon

United States

  • 38Viewyas Score
  • 17 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 967 mAltitude

Antelope Canyon

United States · 19 km

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

See the guide

Big Springs Lookout Tower

United States · 73 km

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

See the guide

Desert View Watchtower

United States · 94 km

  • 83Viewyas Score
  • 228 kmFarthest ridge
  • 17Peaks in view
  • 2,265 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q469014) · 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

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit