To Open The Sky
The Front Pages of Christopher P. Winter
Open Skies of North America
| United States → Alaska | PDT = UTC+9 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Pilot-Cams |
As a service to pilots, the FAA provides frequently updated views from 165 cameras at 86 sites across Alaska. Count 'em — 165 FAA Webcams! Recently the user interface was much improved. You no longer have to wait for all images to load, but can select one of four quadrants of Alaska to see a list of cameras for that region and their status. | 15M | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Anchorage | "The AlaskaCam view is looking east on 4th Avenue at G Street in Anchorage, Alaska ("The Busy Corner") from high atop the historic Alaska Building and is updated every twenty seconds." Seek out the hotspots in the image. | 20S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Denali Depot |
A new Park Service camera in Denali National Park looks across the train depot at the Visitor Center to the Yanert River Valley in the middle distance. Images refresh once per minute. | 60S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Juneau Downtown |
There are now three cameras — north, south, and roundabout. Each offers small and large (640x480) images. Updates rapid (better than the claimed 10 seconds) but must be manually refreshed. | 10S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Seward Harbor |
Live view from the second floor window at the Major Marine Tours Ticket Booth building on the boardwalk at the Seward Alaska Small Boat Harbor. Camera rotates back and forth through 120 degrees each hour. Image updates every 60 seconds, but does not auto-refresh. Archived photos include a panorama of the harbor view. | 60S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| SEE ALSO | |||
| United States → Arizona | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Canyon |
Grand Canyon National Park: View From Yavapai Point, elevation 7,084 feet. Visual range indicates air clarity. Update interval unknown. Live images have now resumed after contruction during 2006. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → California | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Telescope |
Panoramic mosaic of Allen Telescope Array, located at Hat Creek Observatory in northern California. Currently suspended since funding was cut in June 2011. | 24H | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Agate Cove Mendocino |
Mathias Brinzing established a brewery on the Mendocino coast in the 1860s on Agate Cove. The Agate Cove Inn occupies the site of the old brewery, and offers this highly rated webcam view of the coast. The camera, installed in 2000, has unfortunately been under repair since November. | 10M | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Alegria Mendocino |
Another inn on the Mendocino coast, with webcam view of the coast. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Antelope Valley |
"The first and only live streaming webcam in the Antelope Valley" That's the home of Edwards AFB, Lancaster, Palmdale and Mojave in southern California. The Palmdale camera is updated every three minutes, but requires you to install the "AXIS Media Control", an ActiveX control, from Axis Communications AB. You do so at your own risk. Two other cameras are available. | 3M | ** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Berkeley Bay View |
Looking west over San Francisco Bay from Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley. Weather information is overlaid on the screen, which refreshes automatically once per minute. A variety of other information is available. | 60S | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Big Sur |
Looking south along the Big Sur coast from the veranda of Nepenthe restaurant, the Santa Lucia Mountains to the east. Update interval unknown, but it's more than once once daily. Yes, you can sometimes see customers, but not clearly. The Web site is newly improved. |
24H? | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Santa Catalina Island |
The site sports a newly redesigned interface (much nicer) and now gives you views of Avalon as well as Two Harbors, the port on the other end of Santa Catalina Island, off southern California. "Twenty-six miles across the sea..." Both cameras are very versatile; they will zoom in on several locations chosen from a menu at the right. Also new are an interactive map and weather conditions. | 60S | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Diamond Peak |
Five high-level cameras at the Diamond Peak lodge and ski school near Tahoe. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Fortuna River Lodge |
This camera at Fortuna River Lodge, at the mouth of the Eel River on the Northern California coast, switches up and down the beach at frequent intervals (about 10 seconds) during daylight hours. An August 2003 panorama showing the entire field of view is available in scaled-down form. It features hotspots that pop up tooltip=like information on local points of interest. As if that weren't enough, the site has the best set of links I've seen. I've copied a few here, but you should really check out the whole list. | 10S | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Kaweah Commonwealth |
Feature photos and a live camera view sponsored by the Kaweah Commonwealth, the weekly newspaper of Three Rivers, California. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Kaweah River |
A view of the Kaweah River near the headquarters of Sequoia National Park, from a new camera installed on 25 November 2008. To see it, scroll down past the flow data, weather information and boater news. There are now views of the Ash Peaks and Moro Rock as well. | 30M | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Lake Arrowhead |
Now with 13 views of California's Lake Arrowhead area. Updates every minute, but does not auto-refresh. | 60S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Lick Observatory |
These four cameras are operated by the University of California's Lick Observatory. Each can be viewed at 800x600 or 1280x960 resolution. Daily movies and stills are also available. The images update every three minutes. | 3M | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Lone Juniper Ranch |
Two cameras at Lone Juniper Ranch atop the Tejon Pass. One shows the ranch's animal pens, where you can often see llamas and alpacas of a morning. The other looks north down the pass, showing the Grapevine section of Interstate 5 heading out of Los Angeles. Click to expand either image. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 10 May 09 | |||
| Mono Lake |
A view of Mono Lake, looking northeast from the Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area Visitor Center! Made possible by a partnership between the Mono Lake Committee and the U.S. Forest Service. Probably for financial reasons, the "Mono Lake Dustcam" has been retired. Two new webcams have been added, but access to them is members only. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Monterey Bay Aquarium |
Continuing its outreach to the public, the Monterey Bay Aquarium offers video streams from eight cameras covering its various attractions. The images are small but lively, and sometimes they include sound. Podcasts and a video library are also available. | NRT | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Mount Diablo |
Live view of Mount Diablo State Park from a camera in Alamo. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Mount Shasta |
Mount Shasta rises to 14,162 feet in Northern California, USA. | 20M | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Mt. Shasta Snowcam |
This view of Mount Shasta is sponsored by SnowCrest, Inc., a local Internet Service Provider. It provides temperature and windspeed. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Mount Wilson Observatory |
View from Mt. Wilson, California, high atop the 150-Foot Solar Tower. Updates at 5-minute intervals. (Also links to three solar science sites.) | 5M | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Northstar Tahoe |
Scroll down for three live views of Northstar ski resort at Tahoe. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| NuSpectra Demos |
Remotely switchable, zoomable & pannable views from the roof of San Francisco's Exploratorium and other places around the USA demonstrate NuSpectra Multimedia's pan-tilt-zoom camera technology. "See the U-S-A the NuSpectra way..." |
UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Owens Lake |
The Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District maintains these two dustcams at the Dolomite area of Owens Lake. The side-by-side images refresh every 10 seconds. |
10S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Point Reyes |
A National Park Service weather camera showing the beach at Point Reyes National Seashore. |
UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Redwood City |
Located on Hillcrest Way in the Emerald Hills area near Redwood City, the TEA weather camera looks north toward the San Mateo Bridge and Foster City. Provided by Telecommunications Engineering Associates. | 15M | ** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| San Gregorio |
A weathercam looking northwest from San Gregorio, California. The weather instruments are shown below the camera image. | 15M | ** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| San Jose Falconcam |
Monitoring a nest of endangered peregrine falcons on a ledge of San Jose City Hall. Viewing sessions are limited to five minutes to share bandwidth more equitably. See also San Jose Falcon Cam | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| San Jose State U. |
The Meteorology Department of San Jose State University operates this on-campus camera, which is steerable (by the U, not by you.) | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Sausalito | Provided by the management of Portofino Riviera Apartments, this camera looks south to the towers of San Francisco. |
UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Sausalito WebMarin |
Another view of the San Francisco skyline, from a Sausalito camera at a somewhat higher elevation. |
UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Sequoia Kings Cyn |
This NPS-provided camera looks southwest from the edge of Giants' Forest at Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park. |
UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Tehachapi Mountainbase |
A 24-hour view of the Tehachapi Valley, high above California's Mojave Desert. | 10S | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Truckee | This camera looks north from the Camden Building on West River Street. It shows the downtown of historic Truckee, Northern California's prime route across the Sierra Nevada. The image updates every minute but does not auto-refresh. As with all TahoeTopia Lake Tahoe Web cams, an aerial map below the image shows the area's major highways along with the camera's location and geographic coordinates. |
60S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Yosemite Valley |
Live Web Cam Views of Yosemite Valley. Updated about once per minute. Some cameras may have failed due to phone line outages or other problems in the high country. Look for fixes when the snow departs. | 60S | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Colorado | PDT = UTC+6 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pike's Peak | The peak named after explorer Zebulon Pike is perhaps the best-known mountain in a state filled with magnificent mountains. The image updates about once a minute during daylight hours — or it would, if it hadn't been out of order for months. Budget problems, no doubt. But now they assure us that "the camera IS in the shop — we expect it back in a very |
60S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Telluride | This awesome scene east of Telluride was captured in a still photo by Steve Garufi (aka Colorado Guy). See his unrivaled (AFAIK) collection of pictures from his trips around the state. Go here for more shots of telluride. | N/A | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| TundraCam | Used for research, TundraCam is a live "steerable" webcam located 27 km (17 miles) west of Boulder, Colorado at an elevation of 3528m (11,600 feet.) More specifically, it lies above timberline on Niwot Ridge in the Flatiron mountains. | UIU | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
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| United States → Hawai'i | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haleakala Crater |
A live camera view of Haleakala Crater, brought to you by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy — Haleakala Observatory, The Air Force Research Lab, and The National Park Service. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 05 Oct 10 | |||
| Mauna Loa Crater |
A live panorama of Mokuawe òwe ò, Mauna Loa Volcano, from the USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 05 Oct 10 | |||
| Kilauea Crater |
A live panorama of Halemaùmaù Vent, Kilauea Volcano, from the USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 05 Oct 10 | |||
| Kilauea Crater |
A view of Halemaùmaù Vent, Kilauea Volcano, from the overlook. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 05 Oct 10 | |||
| Kilauea Crater |
A live panorama of Puù Òò Vent Cone, Kilauea Volcano, from the USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 05 Oct 10 | |||
| Kuhio Beach |
Picture updates every two seconds, times out after 5 minutes. Musical selections are provided. Links to other Honolulu webcams are below the image. | 2S | **** |
| Checked 31 Aug 10 | |||
| Waikiki Beach |
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii. Camera is located in front of the Duke Kahanamoku Statue. The picture is live, but quits after 5 minutes. Music tracks are provided. | NRT | **** |
| Checked 31 Aug 10 | |||
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| United States → Idaho | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sawtooth Mountains |
A view of the Sawtooth Mountains from Stanley, Idaho. The image updates every 20 minutes between 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM MST. Weather information now presented. | 20M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Teton Valley |
Located on the west side of the Teton Mountains and just north of Driggs, Idaho. The semi-live picture and weather data are updated every 15 minutes during daylight hours. A high-resolution (3.1 megapixel) version and a panorama are now available. See also the All-mountain Webcams List. | 15M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Illinois | PDT = UTC+5 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peoria Bridge |
A traffic camera looking at the McClucage Bridge over the Rock River in Peoria, Illinois. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 21 Jun 11 |
| United States → Kentucky | PDT = UTC+5 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mammoth Cave |
A National Park Service camera looking north-northwest over Green River Valley in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park. This is part of the NPS air-quality camera system. (USDA Webcams are a separate system.) Here is the main page for USDI NPS air-quality Webcams (currently at 17 locations.) | 15M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Maine | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Damariscotta | This great view of Damariscotta, Maine from Hopkins Hill in Newcastle has apparently been shut down. | 5M | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Damariscotta | Damariscotta, Maine (similar to camera below) | 5M | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Damariscotta | Another view of Damariscotta from atop the Maine Coast Book Shop & Café. (pssst... They have a blog.) | UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Goat Island |
The Kennebunkport Conservation Trust provides this image from a tower located on Goat Island. A new image appears automatically every minute. (Temporarily, a webcam on shore is being used.) |
60S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Mount Katahdin |
This image of Maine's Mt. Katahdin is captured from the Webcam. Live feeds are available for a contribution of $10 per year. Astute readers of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring will recognize this place name. Several views of Presque Isle and Caribou are available. | 30M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Pemaquid Point |
New Harbor houses the Pemaquid Point Light, one of Maine's historic lighthouses. The image refreshes every five minutes. Extensive weather information is available on the site, as are links to several other Webcams. | 5M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| SebagoCam | This camera faces northwest by west across Maine's Jordan Bay at its widest point toward the Raymond Neck peninsula. Douglas Hill appears on the left-hand side of the picture. Shawnee Peak lies just to the right of the center of the screen view. Directly beyond, 50 miles in the far background, is Mt. Washington. |
UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Trenton Narrows |
A view of Trenton Narrows, courtesy of the Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound. The camera appears to have a neutral-density filter installed. |
UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| SEE ALSO | |||
| United States → Massachusetts | PDT = UTC+5 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea Tow Boston |
Mounted high above Sea Tow Boston's dispatch center, this Canon VB-C10R camera shows a live view of Boston's Inner Harbor. Hints are provided for using the controllable camera. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Michigan | PDT = UTC+5 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sault St. Marie |
A rotating set of pictures from the locks in the Saint Mary's River near Sault Saint Marie in Upper Michigan. These locks allow transit between Lake Superior and the other Great Lakes. Update interval 60S. | 60S | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Montana | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glacier Park |
Camera views of locations within Glacier National Park in Montana. (One, at Goat Haunt, is activated only in the summer months.) | 60S | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Old Faithful |
A view of Old Faithful geyser in Montana's Yellowstone National Park. Today the site is apparently harboring a virus. I disabled the URL, pending further investigation. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Polson Eyecam |
Located near St. Joseph's Medical Center in the city of Polson, this camera overlooks beautiful Flathead Lake. It's sponsored by KTVQ in Billings (they apparently picked it up from KPAX.) I'm partial to this location, since I visited there in 1992, drove along the west shore of the lake, and lodged in a motel cabin on a gloriously windy day. |
UIU | *** |
| Checked 21 Jun 11 | |||
SEE ALSO
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| United States → New York | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Buffalo | View of downtown Buffalo, NY updates approximately every two seconds. (Camera is being moved to a new location. Archived photos are provided meanwhile.) | 2S | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Empire State Bldg. |
New York is |
5M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Empire State Bldg. |
You are looking at an image of the Empire State Building and the Manhattan skyline from the banks of the Hudson River in Hoboken NJ. A new image is taken every minute. The Empire State Building Web Cam is sponsored by NYCPlaywrights. Another DNS error page (I think the recession got 'em.) | 5M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → North Carolina | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asheville | High in the western uplands of North Carolina lies the beautiful city of Asheville. Rich with webcams it is. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Black Mountain |
The Black Mountain Camera shows Black Mountain and the beautiful Swannanoa Valley — but you have to look beyond a row of buildings. It updates about every 8 seconds from 7am until 9pm. | 8S | ** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Boone Overlook |
This camera atop Howard's Knob in western North Carolina provides a great overlook of the city of Boone. It updates every 30 seconds from 7am until 9pm. | 30S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Lake James |
A view of Lake James in the Morgantown area. It updates every 30 seconds from 7am until 9pm. | 30S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| New River Gorge |
View of lower New River Gorge and Miller's Folly Rapid from Canyon Rim Visitor Center. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Shining Rock |
Shining Rock Ledge forms the backbone of the Shining Rock Wilderness, now the largest Wilderness in North Carolina. The area boasts five peaks exceeding 6,000 feet (three within the Wilderness boundaries.) The image is updated "about every few minutes." (Currently provides archived still image.) | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Wrightsville Beach |
A great view of the Banks Channel in Wrightsville Beach, NC. It updates "every few seconds." | 10S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
SEE ALSO
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| United States → Oregon | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astoria | Astoria, OR weather info & Webcams — Four cameras present real-time coverage with pan/zoom/tilt controls and multiple preset locations. The site also provides sun, moon & tide times and a weather-radar map of the entire state. Just one question: Who is Goonie? | NRT | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Mount Hood |
A view of Mount Hood and air quality data provided by the USDA Forest Service | 15M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Hood River |
The KATU Gorge Camera is located high on the bluffs on the north side of the Columbia River across from the city of Hood River. From this location provided by the Hood River Inn you can see up and down the Gorge to the east and west, into the Hood River area, and you have a gorgeous view of the north side of Mt. Hood. (That is, once the camera is repaired. It's been bad for months.) | UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Tennessee | PDT = UTC+5 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Purchase Knob |
A view from Purchase Knob in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This is a National Park Service air-quality camera (USDA Webcams are a separate system.) Here is the main page for USDI NPS air-quality Webcams (currently at 18 locations.) | 15M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Vermont | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Champlain |
Looking west from Burlington, Vermont across Lake Champlain to the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Updates every 15 minutes. Part of an 11-site realtime air pollution and visibility monitoring network that runs from Newark, New Jersey to Acadia & Presque Isle, Maine. | 15M | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Washington | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Columbia River |
A view of the Columba River Gorge and air quality data provided by the USDA Forest Service | 15M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| San Juan Islands |
A very commercial site (but no popups) provides up to 14 cameras at Friday Harbor and various other locations around the Puget Sound paradise of the San Juan Islands. | UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Seattle | Atop Seattle's famous Space Needle sits this controllable camera. It will pan, tilt and zoom, within limits, or you can point it at listed landmarks. Requires Flash 6 or newer. (I don't know how they handle multiple users.) | UIU | ***** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → West Virginia | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Dolly Sods |
A USDA Forest Service air-quality camera, overlooking the Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia. Like those at the other 12 USDA air-quality sites, this image is updated every fifteen minutes. These sites offer many features. | 15M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| United States → Wyoming | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Cody | Cameras for three views of Cody, Wyoming are under repair since 30 June 2011. An extensive list of webcams follows. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Electric Peak |
A view of Electric Peak, the tallest mountain (10,969 feet) in the Gallatin Range of southern Montana, courtesy of Coolworks. Update interval unknown. There's also a gallery of still images and other information. (NOTE: the old URL now links to a religioso site.) | UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Grand Tetons |
A view of the Grand Tetons from Lost Creek Ranch near Moose, Wyoming. Updates every 10 minutes. (Apparently they are confused about the URL for the camera.) | 10M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| Canada → Alberta | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Banff | These cameras on Sulphur Mountain overlook the Town of Banff, Alberta. Cascade Mountain looms beyond, and part of Lake Louise is visible. The cameras update every 5 minutes and operate 24 hours per day. | 5M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Three Sisters |
Ownership of this site was transferred. A new view of the Three Sisters is provided, refreshed every 30 seconds. Also available are two other cameras showing Canmore, Alberta's Main Street and the Timbers Clubhouse at Silvertip Resort. |
30S | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| Canada → British Columbia | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Downtown Vancouver |
A view from the offices of TCI in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, updated every 5 minutes from dawn to dusk. Scroll down to see it. The camera is now positioned somewhat closer to the bridge. (The image slightly overflows my 1024x768 screen on left and right.) | 5M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| Canada → Nova Scotia | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Cape Breton Island |
This site features two cameras located at L'Ardoise on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. They offer views to the east and to the southwest (toward Nova Scotia proper.) | 30S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Loch Lomond |
Loch Lomond, Nova Scotia. Updates every 15 minutes between 5AM & 9PM. The domain name has changed, probably within the past couple of months. | 15M | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| Canada → Nunavut | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Devon Is. Mars Camp Camera 1 |
HMP Research Station — interior view Status: Offline (archived image) |
UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Devon Is. Mars Camp Camera 2 |
HMP Research Station — exterior view looking west Status: Offline (archived image) |
UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Devon Is. Mars Camp Camera 3 |
HMP Research Station — interior view Status: Offline (archived image) |
UIU | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
SEE ALSO
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The Haughton-Mars Project Research Station exists to demonstrate base-camp operations under conditions as much like those of Mars as possible. Those conditions exist in Canada's High Arctic, on Devon Island within a land called Nunavut (Northwest Territory). The station maintains five cameras. These cameras make use of new PlanetNet wireless technology. They were activated on 31 May along with other automated equipment. The core of the 2010 team arrived on 16 May after a 13-day drive on the ice of the Northwest Passage. Activities for the 2010 season begin on 1 July and end in the first week of August. Times shown are Central Daylight Time (GMT-5). |
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| Mexico | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| Acapulco | A view of Acapulco Bay from the Las Brisas Hotel. It's still advertised as "live" but dated 3 August 2009. | 30S | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Playa Médano |
A view of the luxurious Villa del Arco resort at Médano Beach, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and the curve of beach beyond. Five other webcams now available. A modern browser is recommended. | 5M | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
| Popocatepetl | Spanglish: Absent heavy clouds or technical problems, este cámara shows a view of the north face of el volcán famoso de Méjico Popocatepetl, con su glaciar. Updates cada minuto. Aquí esta the volcano's monitoring site. | 60S | *** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 |
| North Pole | PDT = UTC+7 * |
| Link | Notes | Update | Rating |
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| North Pole | A pair of NOAA Webcams at the North Pole, with additional views and animations. Note the comment on especially rapid melting of surface ice. Maintaining these cameras is understandably difficult. | UIU | **** |
| Checked 12 Aug 11 | |||
NOAA/PMEL's North Pole Web camera deployments began in April 2002. The Web cams operate during the summer (April - October) and are redeployed each Spring. The images track the North Pole snow cover, weather conditions and the status of PMEL's North Pole instrumentation, which includes meteorological and ice sensors. Images and data are relayed by the Iridium satellite system. The instruments typically contine to transmit data for months after the solar-powered Web cams stop. |
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