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Here you can clearly see downtown Chicago from Marquette Park in Gary, approx 26 miles away as the crow flies. I’ve seen Chicago from as far away as New Buffalo Michigan which is about 45 miles away. But due to the poor image quality of google street view or poor weather conditions it doesn’t show up.
I've seen the L.A. skyline from Will Rogers State Park. That's about 14 miles from downtown L.A. I'm sure one can see it from further afield though the L.A. haze may make it trickier than elsewhere.
A few years there was a video and image of the Chicago skyline in 2015 and 2016 and 2020 being seen from over 50-miles across Lake Michigan in the state of Michigan. SEEMS IN GENERAL JUST THE VERY TOPS OF THE SUPER-TALLS on BEST DAYS IS ALL YOU GET. Some days more of the Skyline pops up.
GREAT VIDEO in the News link on this event that occurs in differing degrees of Refraction by heat differences of water and layers of air refract the light to have the skyline pop up in variations of distortion to the rarer very clear skyline popping up out of the water and back down.
A video from the link on Youtube. Super Mirage or Looming seems there is a technical difference
between the two with Looming the clearer version as some say a Mirage is inverted and wavy.
Newcaster TOM COOMES video on - what gains these Chicago Skyline views appearing from
over 50 miles and more across Lake Michigan....
INTERVIEWING PHOTOGRAPHER - JOSHUA NOWICKI. and a Notre 'Dame Professor.
This is one of those that Flat Earthers took and ran with of a clearer skyline appearing.
This is what they called then "Looming" rather then "Mirage" from 2015 and photographer JOSHUA NOWICKI.
There’s reports of people being able to see the Washington Monuments from observation decks in Baltimore and vice versa on very clear days as their downtown are the only ~35 miles apart
Boston is pretty much at sea level. The Boston "basin" extends for 8-10 miles around the city. The basin is full of hills 100-200 feet high, including in the harbor, where they form islands. At the rim of the basin the land rises a couple hundred feet and from many points around the rim you get views of the skyline, some reproducible in street view. There's one from the Rte 128 circumferential highway in Burlington or someplace like that about 12 miles away. You see the tops of some Boston buildings heading east on the turnpike in Weston, 12 miles away, from Route 2 in Arlington maybe 8 miles, from I-93 in Medford only 5 miles. There's a nice view, not so good in street view, from Chicatawbut Road in the Blue Hllls in Milton at just under nine miles. You can see Boston on clear days from Wachusett mountain, 43 miles away, and various points along the shore including Eastern Point, Gloucester, 25 miles.
I tried to look at the Denver skyline from I-70 on Street View since I won't get to drive there as originally planned this year, but noticed I can't see the skyline until I pin points right near Downtown.
Which direction were you looking at? Downtown Denver sits in a big backwards-J-shaped bowl that opens to the northeast. You won't get a view of downtown coming in on I-70 from the east until you get to around E-470. For I-25 southbound you get your first glimpse of downtown around Thornton Parkway, and for northbound it's roughly Ridgegate Parkway or Lincoln Avenue in Lone Tree.
Coming into Denver on I-76, you can see downtown once you get to Brighton.
The best/furthest freeway view of downtown is from eastbound I-70 coming out of the foothills. You can see from downtown all the way out to Aurora from about Genesee Parkway.
Up on the ridge where we live, we get a distant view of downtown and the high peaks of the Front Range from RMNP all the way to Pikes Peak.
Some personal pics of NYC from Breezy Point in Queens, 23 miles away.
14.6 miles as the crow flies from Breezy Point to 57th Street. Nice pix.
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