Volcano
Cascades and Redwoods: 4 Live Cameras — ice and giants
Four cameras on the Pacific coast. Steam from a fumarole field, a glaciated stratovolcano, a row of ice-clad peaks, and the tallest trees on earth.
What you can see
All four are on the Pacific coast ranges, where volcanoes, glaciers and giant trees sit within one day's drive of each other.
Lassen Volcanic faces north from the visitor center. On cool days you can see steam from the fumarole field at the foot of Diller. Cold days show more steam, so this camera is better in bad weather - the opposite of most.
Mount Rainier is a huge glaciated stratovolcano with forest and flower meadows below. But the summit clears the cloud on only a few days. Open it knowing that most days show nothing.
North Cascades looks out from the visitor center to the Picket Range - a row of sharp, ice-clad peaks.
Redwood is the forest of the tallest trees on earth: four cameras at the shore, a prairie and an overlook, all refreshing every minute. That makes it the most fine-grained of the four. It is also often foggy.
Cameras you can watch now: 4
All 4 are still images. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Sample September 2026
Lassen Volcanic National Park
California · Volcano · Nature
A camera facing north from the visitor center. On cool days you can see steam rising from the Sulphur Works hydrothermal area at the foot of Mt. Diller, to the left.
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Sample September 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 September 2026
North Cascades National Park
Washington · Nature
The Picket Range seen from just outside the visitor center — a row of sharp, glacier-hung peaks.
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Sample September 2026
Redwood National and State Parks
California · World Heritage · Nature · Sea
The forest of the tallest trees on earth. Four cameras — shoreline, prairie and a lookout — each refreshing about once a minute. It is a foggy coast.
When to watch
The operator publishes no viewing season, and we will not invent one here. The cool-day steam, Rainier's rare clear summits, the one-minute refresh and the fog all come from the camera descriptions.
The US Pacific coast is 16 hours behind Japan on daylight time, 17 on standard time. Measured: 03:00 Japan time on daylight time, or 04:00 on standard time, is 11:00 on the Pacific coast (checked 2026-09-04).
The three mountain cameras need daylight to show any shape at all. Redwood is different: the fog is the point, so a white frame there is not a wasted visit.
If it isn't showing
All four also appear on the United States page. Lassen and Rainier are in Volcano, the forest and peaks in Nature, and Redwood in Sea and World Heritage.
Another feed of the same redwood forest is in Wide Views of the US; other parks are in US and Korean National Parks. Japan's own fumaroles are at Owakudani, Hakone.
What a volcano camera is actually showing is in What volcano cameras are looking at; the time zones are in Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Cascades and Redwoods
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- 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.