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Hells Canyon

You can see 17 km from here, looking north-east.

22Viewyas 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.

22out 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 north-east
  • 63%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 528 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-west92 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  2. Febsouth-west120 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  3. Marsouth-west142 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  4. Aprwest168 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  5. Maywest188 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  6. Junwest200 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  7. Julwest194 min before the sea-level sunset71%
  8. Augwest174 min before the sea-level sunset68%
  9. Sepsouth-west152 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  10. Octsouth-west132 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  11. Novsouth-west102 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  12. Decsouth-west84 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  • 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

Hells Canyon.

Landform

Hells Canyon is a canyon rim in United States, 528 m above the sea.

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

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 63% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to August.

Dug-bar-hells-canyon-07242011-rogermpeterson-003 (6097008188)
Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, USA · Public domain

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Hells CanyonGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Hells CanyonBooking.comSee prices Car hire in LewistonDiscover 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.

Hells 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

  • 4named peaks within 5 kmBear Mountain, Black Mountain, Goat Ridge and 1 more
  • 1marked trails within 3 kmSnake River National Recreation Trail
  • 22campsites within 10 kmUpper Oregon Hole Campsite, Lower Oregon Hole Campsite, Three Creek Campsite and 19 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Hells Canyon, and what is near.

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

Peakyas62 mountains within 25 km
Devils Tooth · 8.4 kmShe Devil2,861 m · 9.2 kmDevils Throne · 9.5 kmTwin Imps · 9.8 kmThe Ogre · 10 kmBald Mountain · 13 kmBald Knob · 16 kmSheep Rock2,087 m · 20 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Hells CanyonBortle 2 · this place
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Hells Canyon · this placeHells Canyon · 1.1 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Snake River1,735 km · 1,550 m³/sSalmon River684 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.

Along the River (11442531196)
Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington · Public domain
Along the River (11442600913)
Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington · Public domain
Dug-bar-hells-canyon-07242011-rogermpeterson (6097008242)
Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, USA · Public domain

Other viewpoints nearby.

Hells Canyon

United States

  • 22Viewyas Score
  • 17 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 528 mAltitude

Gardiner Peak Lookout

United States · 160 km

  • 61Viewyas Score
  • 85 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 2,005 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Adams

United States · 387 km

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 105Peaks in view
  • 3,734 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Hood

United States · 395 km

  • 81Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 37Peaks in view
  • 3,376 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q751691) · 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.

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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