lookout points
Places offering views
Lookout points are elevated locations offering panoramic views of surrounding landscape—mountain overlooks, scenic highway pulloffs, observation decks.
Travelers stop at lookout points to photograph vistas or simply take in the scenery: We pulled over at a lookout point above the valley.
The term emphasizes the place's function as a viewing station rather than a destination itself.
- observation deckElevated platform for sightseeing
- overlookMiss or commanding view
- viewpointWay of seeing things
- bird's eye viewElevated vantage point
- crow's nestElevated ship observation platform
panorama · sentry post · signal station · belvedere · outpost · cliffs · national park · vista · photo op · summit · watchtower · mountain peak · altitude · fire tower · guard tower · escarpment · mountains · ranger station
- cliff sceneryocean views, sea views, coastline, horizon, waves
- scenic reservehiking trails, trails, lookouts, walking tracks, tracks
- national parksYellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Everglades, Glacier National Park
- Western FrontierOld West, cowboy culture, ghost towns, frontier towns, pioneer trails
- Australian OutbackUluru, outback, red sand, red earth, red desert
- Pieninylimestone cliffs
lookout pointsvalleys
Low areas between hills
ravines · canyons · gorges · hollows · depressions
lookout pointshiding places
Locations for concealment
blind spots · blinds · shelters · hideouts · bunkers