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Can you see Mount Baker, USA from Prospect Point, Vancouver?

Yes, you can

114 km line of sight toward the east-southeast (bearing 121°), computed on 30 m Copernicus terrain with Earth curvature and standard atmospheric refraction.

The answer

Yes. Mount Baker, USA is visible from Prospect Point, Vancouver: a clear 114 km line of sight, and after Earth's curvature drops the target 882 m, its top still stands 2,304 m above eye level.

Vancouver's most photographed volcano isn't even in Canada. Mount Baker's glaciers glow pink at sunset behind the city, an international sightline that crosses a border, a strait and a hundred kilometres.

3D terrain view from Prospect Point, Vancouver toward Mount Baker, USA
Straight-line distance114 km
Direction121° east-southeast
Observer eye level91 m
Target elevation3,276 m
Curvature drop at the target882 m
Above your eye level2,304 m

From Prospect Point, Vancouver, at an eye level of 91 m, the sightline to Mount Baker, USA runs 114 km and clears every ridge in between. Over that distance Earth's curvature drops the target 882 m below a flat-earth line, but at 3,276 m, it still rises above the horizon. The view is geometrically real: whether you actually get it depends on haze, not terrain.

The line on the map

Satellite map with the sightline from Prospect Point, Vancouver to Mount Baker, USA drawn in red
The 114 km sightline over satellite imagery, drawn as the great-circle path light would follow.

The terrain profile

0 m2,000 m sea level (curved) sightlineProspect PointMount Baker 0 km114 km255075100
Elevation profile from Prospect Point, Vancouver to Mount Baker, USA. Like every elevation profile, the vertical axis is stretched (≈10× here), but the geometry is real: mid-path, Earth's surface genuinely stands 254 m above the straight line between the two points (the dashed arc is sea level). Light bends only slightly around that bulge, so whatever it covers stays hidden.
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Frequently asked questions

Can you see Mount Baker, USA from Prospect Point, Vancouver?

Yes. The terrain-limited line of sight is clear across 114 km, accounting for Earth's curvature and standard atmospheric refraction. Atmospheric haze is the only thing that can hide the view.

How far is Mount Baker, USA from Prospect Point, Vancouver in a straight line?

114 km great-circle distance, on a bearing of 121° (east-southeast).

How much does Earth's curvature hide over 114 km?

At the target's distance the curvature drop is about 882 m: anything lower than that (relative to the observer's horizon plane) is hidden behind the bulge of the Earth. Mount Baker, USA is tall enough to rise above it.

How was this calculated?

UpToWhere walks the full terrain profile between the two points on 30 m-resolution Copernicus GLO-30 elevation data, applying Earth curvature and standard atmospheric refraction (k = 0.13), the same physics surveyors use. You can run the same point-to-point check between any two places on Earth.

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