![]() This isn't a "can't miss" location worth rearranging your schedule around. Otherwise, I would only visit mid-day if you have the time in your itinerary. But it's close enough and convenient enough to get there by sunrise if you're in Grant Grove overnight and get up early, or at sunset before returning to your lodge or cabin. I haven't been at either sunset or sunrise, so I can't comment on those types of views. There's a big boulder at the top which makes for interesting photography, and there's a good look at Hume Lake in the distance. And while the trail up to the point itself is uphill the entire way, it's not very long and there is a disabled-access part of it that's completely paved. You drive up a winding, narrow road straight up from the back of John Muir Lodge to a fairly large parking area. Panoramic Point is fairly easy to access. You get the kind of expansive view you might get at the top of a ski lift mountain. It's not the greatest view (it doesn't look straight down a canyon and it's not a 360-degree kind of experience), but it's nice. From the road sign, it is 1.2 miles to Panorama Point.Panoramic Point is a pretty nice view. The dirt road to Panorama Point leaves right (west), just a hair north of the Colorado state line. Turn right (south) on road #5 and go 2.0 miles. Follow this road, which jogs south and becomes road #6, for 3.4 miles. Pass under I-80 and go about 9 miles to road #203 leaving left (east). Go south on Beech Street, which is on the east side of town. Leave I-80 on US 30 to enter the town of Pine Bluff (north side of I-80). Turn W (R) on dirt road with sign, cross double cattle guard (for bison!) and continue for 1.0 miles to a bend to the right (NNW), and continue0.2 miles to the highpoint marker A closer and still stunning addition to the view. Christopher Alan Barker Mount Thorodin Location: 39.875954, -105.441155 Looking north from the Raccoon Trail you’ll see Mount Thorodin’s 10,540-foot peak. Turn S (L) on CR 5 and continue for 2.0 miles Panorama Point Location: 39.875937, -105.440168 The 100-mile Continental Divide view from Panorama Point. Turn W (R) on CR 6 and continue for 2.0 miles ![]() Turn S (L) on CR 9 and continue for 1.0 miles Turn W (R) on CR 8 and continue for 4.2 miles Go S on CR 17 for 10.0 miles until dead-end Take Exit 8, just East of the WY-NE border Gravel is being brought in to fix the situation in the summer of 2016. Wind and hoof erosion has caused ground level to drop 6-8" all around the highpoint, exposing the concrete footings to each of these features. Recently a bench was placed next to this looking west to the distant mountains of CO and WY, easily visible on a clear day. Be sure to open the drawer of the large metal desk next to the monument marker and sign in to the register notebook within. Were it not for the marker placed by the Kimball Chamber of Commerce, one would have a very difficult time locating the true Highpoint of Nebraska. While this highpoint is atop a hill, it is difficult to tell exactly where the true highpoint is. Panorama Point, at 1,655m (5,429ft), features geology very similar to that of the Southern Great Plains of East Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma the land has been shaped through rainwater runoff and especially human hands / machinery. Generally considered an easy route, it takes an average of 6 min to complete. OverviewThough the State of Nebraska is home to many buttes and even the southern terminus of the Dakotas' Badlands, its highpoint is in the middle of a nearly featureless field just over 1 mile away from the borders of Colorado and Wyoming. Panorama Point Easy 4.3 (212) Capitol Reef National Park Photos (155) Directions Print/PDF map Length 0.3 miElevation gain 29 ftRoute type Out & back Check out this 0.3-mile out-and-back trail near Torrey, Utah.
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