United States scenic viewpoint
Stillwater Overlook
You can see 28 km from here, looking south.
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 28 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).
- 28 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 262 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 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-west20 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Julnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Novsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Decsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- 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
Stillwater Overlook.
Scenic overlook in Minnesota, United States
Stillwater Overlook is a scenic viewpoint in United States, 262 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 28 km away, looking south.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Fred C. Andersen Scout Campcampsite · 6.7 km · 5 within 10 km
- Cover Park Manor Bed & Breakfastplace to stay · 0.8 km · 21 within 10 km
- Oak Park Heightsnearest town · 1.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Oak Park HeightsBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 38 km in a straight lineCar hire at MSP airport (Minneapolis)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
- 9other viewpoints within 5 kmStillwater Overlook and 8 more
- 45shelters and huts within 5 km
- 295car parks within 3 km
- 43restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmFred C. Andersen Scout Camp, Willow River State Park Campground and 3 more
- 21places to stay within 10 kmCover Park Manor Bed & Breakfast, Lora Hotel, Water Street Inn and 18 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres 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 Stillwater Overlook, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas10 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Stillwater Overlook
United States
- 48Viewyas Score
- 28 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 262 mAltitude
Reads Landing Overlook
United States · 89 km
- 38Viewyas Score
- 29 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 310 mAltitude
Kenney Lake Overlook
United States · 165 km
- 49Viewyas Score
- 36 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 396 mAltitude
Preston Overlook
United States · 163 km
- 44Viewyas Score
- 12 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 314 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q7617299) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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