Region
United States Live Cameras — 15 official webcams
Twelve National Park Service cameras, two USGS volcano cameras and a bald eagle nest. America is awake while Japan sleeps, so the places you can see swap over between bedtime and breakfast.
15 cameras in United States
3 video, 12 still. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Old Faithful Geyser
Wyoming · Nature
A geyser that erupts on an almost dependable schedule. Between eruptions there is only quiet steam, and the waiting is half the attraction.
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Sample August 2026
Grand Canyon
Arizona · Nature
Two billion years of rock cut into a canyon. Around sunrise and sunset the walls turn red, and the place looks like somewhere else entirely.
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Sample August 2026
Glacier National Park
Montana · Nature
Sharp glacier-carved peaks and lakes. Snow lingers near the summits even in summer, and on clear days the ridgelines run a long way back.
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Sample August 2026
Olympic National Park
Washington · Nature
Temperate rainforest, mountains and coast in one park. Fog is common here, so whether it is clear is something you find out by looking.
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Sample August 2026
Denali National Park
Alaska · Nature
Vast tundra below the highest peak in North America. Long days in summer, dim ones in winter — and the mountain clears the cloud on few of them.
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Sample August 2026
Acadia National Park
Maine · Nature
Rocky coastline meeting low mountains on the east coast. One of the first places in the continental United States to get the morning sun.
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Live video
Kilauea, Halemaumau Crater
Hawaii Island · Volcano
A monitoring camera the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory keeps trained on the crater from the northwest caldera rim. The eruption that began in December 2024 is episodic: lava fountains every few days to few weeks, and a smouldering crater in between. Staff change the aim and zoom as activity shifts.
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Sample August 2026
Yosemite National Park
California · Nature · World Heritage
A huge granite valley carved by ice. As the sun moves, hard shadows travel across the faces of Half Dome and El Capitan.
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Sample August 2026
Rocky Mountain National Park
Colorado · Nature
A mountain park with a road over a 3,000-metre pass. Snow holds on the ridges through midsummer, and thunderheads build most afternoons.
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Sample August 2026
Crater Lake National Park
Oregon · Nature · Volcano
A caldera left by a collapsed volcano, filled with water. Famous for a blue that looks bottomless, and for some of the heaviest snowfall in the country.
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Sample August 2026
Mount Rainier National Park
Washington · Volcano · Nature
An enormous glaciated stratovolcano above forest and meadows. The days when the summit clears the cloud are limited.
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Sample August 2026
Joshua Tree National Park
California · Nature
Dry country where two different deserts meet. Strange trees and rounded boulders, and a wide swing between day and night temperatures.
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Still image
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii Island · Volcano · World Heritage
A World Heritage park containing Kilauea and Mauna Loa. What the camera shows changes day to day with the state of the eruption.
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Sample August 2026
Mauna Loa
Hawaii Island · Volcano
One of the largest shield volcanoes on Earth by volume. Its slope is so gradual that on screen it barely reads as a mountain at all.
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Live video
Bald eagle nest
West Virginia · Wildlife · Nature
A sycamore on the grounds of a Fish and Wildlife Service training centre. The nest used for 22 years came down in an April 2025 windstorm, and the pair rebuilt about fifteen feet lower in the same tree. Three cameras run continuously. Chicks are there from winter into early summer; after they fledge it is an empty nest and a tree.
When to watch
Time zones dominate here. Between roughly midnight and 4 a.m. Japan time, almost every camera from the mainland to Hawaii is in daylight. Open them during the Japanese day and most are dark.
Old Faithful is the only live video feed among the American cameras, and the geyser plays at intervals of anywhere from tens of minutes to about two hours. The bald eagle nest ignores both season and clock; all that matters is whether anything is home. Kilauea and Mauna Loa are USGS cameras installed to monitor volcanic activity, not for the view.
Closer looks at cameras here
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S. government work) — Official site
- U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. government work) — Official site
- U.S. National Park Service (U.S. government work) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.