Czechia observation tower
Lipno Treetop Walkway
You can see 220 km from here, looking south-west.
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 220 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.
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).
- 220 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 668Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 919 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 668 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.
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 April and from August 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.
- Jansouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- 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
Lipno Treetop Walkway.
Wooden walkway and point view in the Šumava mountains, southern part of the Czech Republic
Lipno Treetop Walkway is an observation tower in Czechia, 919 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 220 km away, looking south-west.
668 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hoher Dachstein (2,995 m), 139 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from August to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Camping Panoramacampsite · 1.7 km · 18 within 10 km
- Hotel Restaurant Admiralplace to stay · 1.4 km · 207 within 10 km
- Loučovicenearest town · 4.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in LoučoviceBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- České Budějovice South Bohemian Airport (JCL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 36 km in a straight lineCar hire at LNZ airport (Linz)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 12other viewpoints within 5 kmStezka korunami stromů Lipno and 11 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmKraví hora, Luč, Vyklestilka and 11 more
- 10marked trails within 3 km[Z] Frymburk - Studánky, [Ž] Rožmberk nad Vltavou - Frymburk, [M] Pasečná - Guglwald - Lipno - Loučovice - Vyšší Brod and 7 more
- 18shelters and huts within 5 kmU Medvědí stěny and 17 more
- 136car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmRezeption + Info, Turistické centrum Lipenska, Zubařské centrum FRYMBURK and 1 more
- 28restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 18campsites within 10 kmCamping Panorama, Camping Lipno Modřín, Frymburk and 15 more
- 207places to stay within 10 kmHotel Restaurant Admiral, Chata Lipno-Dvorecna, Pod Lipou and 204 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Lipno Treetop Walkway, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas55 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Lipno Treetop Walkway
Czechia
- 77Viewyas Score
- 220 kmFarthest ridge
- 668Peaks in view
- 919 mAltitude
Moldaublick
Austria · 20 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 176 kmFarthest ridge
- 946Peaks in view
- 1,025 mAltitude
Observation Tower Burgstall
Austria · 32 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 189 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,076Peaks in view
- 603 mAltitude
Kraví hora (Novohradské hory, observation tower)
Czechia · 37 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 190 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,020Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q12056422) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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