United States cliff
Pink Cliffs
You can see 189 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 189 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).
- 189 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 80%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 8Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,629 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 8 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 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.
- Jansouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Febsouth-west80 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Marwest94 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Aprwest108 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Maywest124 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Junwest132 min before the sea-level sunset74%
- Julwest128 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Augwest116 min before the sea-level sunset61%
- Sepwest98 min before the sea-level sunset70%
- Octsouth-west86 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Novsouth-west80 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Decsouth-west74 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- 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
Pink Cliffs.
Series of highly dissected cliffs on the Colorado Plateau in Garfield, Iron, and Kane counties in Utah, United States
Pink Cliffs is a cliff in United States, 2,629 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 189 km away, looking south-east.
8 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Ellen (3,507 m), 143 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 80% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in June and in September.
Get there and stay
- Natural Bridge Camp Sitecampsite · 2.1 km · 21 within 10 km
- Cedar City Regional Airport (CDC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 77 km in a straight lineCar hire at SGU airport (St George)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
- 11other viewpoints within 5 kmYovimpa Point, Rainbow Point, Black Birch Canyon Overlook and 8 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmBuck Knoll, Deer Mountain, Noon Canyon Butte and 2 more
- 4marked trails within 3 kmGreat Western Trail - Utah, Under-the-Rim Trail, Hayduke Trail #9 and 1 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 kmPodunk Guard Station
- 6car parks within 3 km
- 21campsites within 10 kmNatural Bridge Camp Site, Iron Spring Campsite, East Fork Dispersed Site 7 and 18 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Pink Cliffs, 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
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas3 canyons within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Pink Cliffs
United States
- 66Viewyas Score
- 189 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 2,629 mAltitude
Observation Point
United States · 66 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 1,959 mAltitude
Big Springs Lookout Tower
United States · 103 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 193 kmFarthest ridge
- 39Peaks in view
- 2,414 mAltitude
Vermilion Cliffs
United States · 83 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 96 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 1,746 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3388744) · 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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