Nature
Wide Views of the US: 3 Live Cameras — Montana to Redwoods
Three US cameras: a Montana range and wetland, the highest peak in the Channel Islands, and a river through the tallest trees on earth.
What you can see
All three are cameras on a landscape rather than on one animal. Animals do turn up, but the subject in frame is the country itself.
The Mission Range and Ninepipe wetland (Charlo, Montana) looks out at the range from a lodge next to the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge. Waterfowl and raptors of many kinds come and go, and painted turtles bask on a sunny afternoon. Across the valley you can also see the National Bison Range.
Diablo Peak (Santa Cruz Island, California) sits on the summit of the highest mountain in the Channel Islands, known as Devil's Peak. From 2,429 feet above the sea you get sunsets, breaking surf, island foxes that come to look at people, and eagles on the wing.
Redwoods and the Smith River (Crescent City, California) is in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Surrounded by the tallest trees on earth, the camera pans along the river. Otters and bald eagles pass, and sometimes anglers and kayaks.
Cameras you can watch now: 3
All 3 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Mission Mountains and Ninepipe wetlands
Montana, Charlo · Nature · Wildlife
The Mission Mountain Range seen from a lodge inside the Ninepipe Wildlife Management Area, bordering the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge. Several species of waterfowl and raptors pass through, and painted turtles bask on sunny afternoons. The National Bison Range is visible across the valley.
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Live video
Summit of Mount Diablo, Santa Cruz Island
California, Santa Cruz Island · Nature · Sea
A camera at the top of Mount Diablo, also called Devil's Peak, the highest point on California's Channel Islands. From 2,429 feet above the ocean: sunsets, breaking waves, curious island foxes and soaring eagles.
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Live video
Redwoods and the Smith River
California, Crescent City · Nature · River
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, surrounded by some of the tallest trees on the planet. The camera pans along the Smith River; watch for river otters and bald eagles, and the occasional angler or kayaker.
When to watch
For all three the provider gives no season. These are landscape cameras, so the weather decides what you get, but we are not going to set a season here.
Montana is 15 hours behind Japan and the two Californian cameras 16 (both during daylight saving). Local noon in California is 04:00 the next day in Japan, and local 18:00 is 10:00. So opening them at 10:00 Japanese time puts you in the Californian evening — a good bet for sunset on Diablo Peak. Outside daylight saving all three shift an hour later.
The provider says the painted turtles bask on a sunny afternoon. 14:00 in Montana is about 05:00 the next morning in Japan.
If it isn't showing
All three also appear on the United States page. The landform cameras are under Nature and the riverside ones under River.
There is a Bald Eagles nest on the same Santa Cruz Island, and further north Alaska Ice and Volcanoes. The article is US national park cameras.
How to pick a time to open them is in Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Wide Views of the US
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- explore.org (Deep links and embeds OK, no image reuse) — 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.