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Cook Inlet Volcanoes: 4 Live Cameras — seen from the city

Four volcanoes across the water from Anchorage. A 3,374 m peak seen from town, a crater a glacier flows out of, and an island that is one whole volcano.

What you can see

All four stand across Cook Inlet from Anchorage. Few places in the world line up active volcanoes this close to a city.

Mount Spurr is a 3,374 m volcano visible from Anchorage on a clear day. Earthquake swarms have kept recurring since the 1992 eruption. Of the four, this is the one where the distance to the city is easiest to feel.

Redoubt is a 3,108 m cone. Its ice-filled summit crater opens to the north, and the Drift Glacier flows out of it. A crater serving as the outlet for ice is an unusual arrangement.

Augustine is an island in Cook Inlet that is one whole volcano. Its summit dome has collapsed more than 11 times since 2000. That means the shape of the mountain itself has changed again and again.

Iliamna is a 3,053 m stratovolcano with glaciers running down radially from the summit. There is no record of an eruption, yet steam keeps rising from its flank. A quiet mountain and a living one at the same time.

The reason to keep the four together: around one inlet you get four different forms a volcano can take - cone, island, glacier-clad, and steam only.

Cameras you can watch now: 4

All 4 are still images. Tap one to open it in the camera list.

When to watch

The operator publishes no viewing season, and we will not invent one here. The view from town, the glacier flowing out, the collapsing dome and the steam all come from the camera descriptions.

Alaska time is 17 hours behind Japan on daylight time and 18 hours behind on standard time. Calculated: 03:00 Japan time on daylight time, or 04:00 on standard time, is 10:00 in Anchorage (checked 2026-09-07).

So the small hours in East Asia are their late morning. Open these in your evening and it is the middle of the night there - four black frames. The latitude is high, so the daylight window itself shrinks in winter. In winter, expect an even narrower slot.

If it isn't showing

All four also appear on the United States page, filed under Volcano; Augustine, being an island, is also in Sea.

The same observatory's other cameras are in Alaska Peninsula Volcanoes, East Aleutian Volcanoes and West Aleutian Volcanoes. The ice-covered ones are gathered in Ice-Clad Volcanoes.

Elsewhere in Alaska: Parks With No Roads, Brooks Falls Bears and Salmon and Aurora.

What a volcano camera actually shows is in What volcano cameras are looking at; the time zones are in Which cameras are in daylight now.

Where to find Cook Inlet Volcanoes

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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.

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