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Reunion Tower

You can see 37 km from here, looking north-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 37 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.

53out 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).

  • 37 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 132 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 October.

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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  2. Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  4. Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  5. Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  6. Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  7. Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  8. Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  9. Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  10. Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  11. Novwest6 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  12. Decsouth-west6 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

Reunion Tower.

Observation tower

Reunion Tower is an observation tower in United States, 132 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 37 km away, looking north-west.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to October.

View of GeO-Deck of Reunion Tower August 2015 25
Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Reunion Tower 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

  • 6other viewpoints within 5 kmThomsen Overlook, Hi Line Plaza, Victory Overlook and 3 more
  • 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • 3marked trails within 3 kmDallas Pedestrian Network, Katy Trail, Turtle Creek
  • 70shelters and huts within 5 kmLorenzo Hotel and 69 more
  • 649car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmVisitor Information Center
  • 287restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 129places to stay within 10 kmAloft Dallas Downtown, Crowne Plaza, The Westin Dallas Downtown and 126 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • campsites 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 Reunion Tower, and what is near.

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

Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
White Rock Lake3.9 km² · 9.9 kmBachman Lake0.4 km² · 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden · 10 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Other viewpoints nearby.

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United States

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  • 37 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 132 mAltitude

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  • 54Viewyas Score
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  • —Peaks in view
  • 139 mAltitude

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Hot Springs Mountain Tower

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  • 61Viewyas Score
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  • 3Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1248619) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, 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.