# Any landmarks visible from your house? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573 "2018-01-13T23:33:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/61 "2018-01-15T15:51:00Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I can see the John Hancock building\* and the Sears/Willis Tower from my bedroom window. They are both about three miles away. > > \*the one in Chicago, that is. I have to climb onto my roof to see them, mostly because they are so tall and Chicago is so flat. ---
**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/62 "2018-01-15T16:52:07Z")
My house is at the foot of [this moderately famous hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Knoll) - well, famous in Somerset anyway! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/63 "2018-01-15T17:06:04Z")
Is Puget Sound a “landmark?” If so, yes. From very close to my house I can see Mt. Rainier and Mt. Baker (on a clear day). Not from my house, however. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/64 "2018-01-15T17:06:52Z")
From my apartment, I can see the three tallest skyscrapers in Cleveland. I could from the house where I grew up, too, but because of surrounding houses, you had to go to the attic. Dunno if anyone not from around here considers them landmarks (though the [Terminal Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Tower) is quite beautiful), but locals can tell exactly where they are in the city by the relative position of the three. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/65 "2018-01-15T17:19:58Z")
From the sidewalk in front of my apartment I have a nice view of the Sandia mountains. If I place my face very near the glass in my bedroom window and look to the right I can see a small section of them. Just a few blocks from my apartment I can get a view of three different mountain ranges, all formed by different geological processes. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/66 "2018-01-15T17:30:20Z")
I can see the lights on top of the [Spinnaker Tower](https://www.spinnakertower.co.uk/) from some of the upstairs rooms, on a clear night - which is sort of cool, because it’s far enough away for the base of the tower to be over the horizon. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/67 "2018-01-15T17:53:27Z")
The National Cathedral from our upstairs and the Washington Monument from our attic in the winter when the leaves are off the trees. ---
**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/68 "2018-01-15T19:16:51Z")
For you railroad aficionados out there. I can see an operational 1912 railroad semaphore signal from my living room window. Sometimes I even catch it when it’s operating. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/69 "2018-01-15T19:39:41Z")
From my roof on a clear day I can make out [Ben Lomond Peak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lomond_Mountain_(Utah)) (not the original). ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/70 "2018-01-15T19:44:58Z")
The most visible landmark is a [Mausoiuum](https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g293763-d4137846-Reviews-Mausoleum_of_Agostinho_Neto-Luanda_Luanda_Province.html) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/71 "2018-01-15T21:36:06Z")
Stone Mountain is visible from several vantage points near my house. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/72 "2018-01-18T15:47:49Z")
We can see the house of the former mayor of our large city from our front step. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/73 "2018-01-18T15:49:38Z")
I’ve got Lake Michigan for my front yard. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/74 "2018-01-18T16:18:59Z")
Various Sierra Nevada peaks and foothills. ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/75 "2018-01-18T16:30:13Z")
I have a fantastic view over North-West Edinburgh. I can just catch a glimpse of Edinburgh Castle in one direction. The main feature of my view is the [Donaldson’s Hospital Building](http://www.cityandcountry.co.uk/developments/donaldsons-edinburgh/), which used to be a Deaf School and is not being redeveloped into (very expensive) apartments. Queen Victoria famously stated that it was better than her palaces. I can also see the spires of [St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral](http://www.cathedral.net/), [Murrayfield (the home of Scottish Rugby)](http://www.scottishrugby.org/bt-murrayfield-stadium), [Tynecastle Park (the home of Heart of Midlothian FC)](http://www.heartsfc.co.uk/), and - if you really know where to look - you can see the distinctive [Air Traffic Control Tower](https://nats.aero/blog/2014/01/tower-tours-edinburgh-iconic-tower-view/) of Edinburgh Airport. And you can see all the way to the hills of Fife. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/76 "2018-01-18T20:56:05Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > I have a fantastic view over North-West Edinburgh. I can just catch a glimpse of Edinburgh Castle in one direction. > > I can also see the spires of … Edinburgh Airport. And you can see all the way to the hills of Fife. Wow, that’s hard to beat. From our upstairs windows, we can see a regionally well-known landmark called Granddad Bluff. But only in winter, when there are no leaves on the trees. I grew up in a little house looking right at the Tappan Zee Bridge (NY state). My mother still lives in the same house. The bridge is now even closer than before! No, the house didn’t move. The bridge did! (They built a replacement fifty meters north of the original. It just opened for traffic a few months ago. They’ll demolish the old one over the next few months. But right now…_two_ bridges. Well, three, actually, as the new bridge is really two parallel spans.) ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/77 "2018-01-18T23:02:24Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > I can see Mt. Rainier from my back deck. In a few months when all the trees leaf not so much. If the clouds weren’t so thick right now, I could see it from where I’m sitting right now. Ditto about the trees, though. When I lived a couple of miles up the road at my last residence, I had a much better view of it from my bedroom window. I once lived about a mile up the hill from the Space Needle. I could step out the front door and watch the fireworks show on New Year’s Eve. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/78 "2018-01-19T08:13:01Z")
From the roof of my residence on a VERY CLEAR winter day, we can make out MT. FUJI to the southwest. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/79 "2018-01-20T06:35:48Z")
Once in a while the Goodyear blimp flies over my house. Its base is about two miles from here. That’s about as good as it gets in Carson, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/80 "2018-01-20T11:39:29Z")
I can just see the top of Arthur’s Seat (hill in the middle of Edinburgh) from home and I used to be able to see Edinburgh Castle from the doorway at work, until I moved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573.md?page=5)