Panorama Point
Elevation:  5,424
Date completed:  3/23/02
Hiking Distance:  1.3 miles to top

From Denver, Colorado it was only a 150 mile drive to Panorama Point, where, if you look really hard, you can just barely discern the Rockies in the distance. (They are well over 120 miles away)  I drove up I-25 North to I-80 West to exit 401, in Pine Bluff, Wyoming.  I went straight off the exit and took a right on Route 30.  I went down about a half mile and turned right on Beech Street, which is unmarked, but you can see the I-80 bridge right down the street.  About a mile down Beech Street, there is a bunch of hills and hiking trails that I hiked on my way back from the highpoint.

The "Pine Bluffs" rose up as I drove on I-80 east. (The other side of I-80, coming from Nebraska, is rather flat until you see the pine bluffs rise, so they rise up whether you are coming from I-80 West, or I-80 East.)  These hills are on the road to the trailhead, after you pass under I-80.  Once at the top of these hills, you lose no elevation, but the scenery becomes flat.  From these hills, you are about 12 miles from the highpoint.  The shot was taken up on the hills, with the town of Pine Bluff in the distance.