3D print Mount St. Helens and the Loowit Trail
Mount St. Helens on one print, with the Loowit Trail raised in orange on the terrain. Open it in the generator, change the size or colors, and export a slicer-ready 3MF.
Loowit Trail
- Route
- A loop around the mountain
- Elevation
- 4,000 to 4,900 ft (1,200 to 1,500 m)
- On the print
- 43 km, as mapped in OpenStreetMap
2,549 m of mountain, 32 mm on your shelf
The print covers 14 by 14 km. On a 160 mm print the summit stands 32 mm above the valleys.
- Taller than life
The print opens with the Elevation multiplier at 1.5, so the mountain stands 1.5 times its true height and its shape reads clearly at this size. Set it to 1 for true scale.
- The trail
The Loowit Trail prints as a raised 1.2 mm orange line, drawn from its OpenStreetMap route. Give it its own filament color, or turn it off on the GPX tab.
- Colors
Forest, meadow, bare rock, ice and water each get their own color where the land has them, so a multi-color printer shows where the trees give way to rock.
About Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Skamania County, Washington, 52 miles (83 km) northeast of Portland. Its eruption on May 18, 1980, was the most economically destructive volcanic event in U.S. history.
A massive debris avalanche lowered the summit from 9,677 to 8,363 feet (2,950 to 2,549 m) and left a horseshoe-shaped crater a mile wide, which is what the print shows open to the north.
The Loowit Trail
The Loowit Trail circles the whole mountain at 4,000 to 4,900 feet (1,200 to 1,500 m). Over 12,000 acres of the mountain, roughly bounded by the trail, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The print draws the loop from OpenStreetMap around the crater and the blast zone.
Next to the others
How Mount St. Helens measures up
Common questions
Is the Mount St. Helens 3D print free?
Yes. The generator runs in your browser and exports a 3MF file you can open in any common slicer. There is no account or payment.
Is the Loowit Trail on the print?
Yes. Print this mountain adds it from its OpenStreetMap route (43 km as mapped) and raises it on the terrain. The footprint is 14 by 14 km, centered on the summit and wide enough for all of it.
Is the mountain printed at its true height?
It starts at 1.5 times its true height, about 32 mm of relief on a 160 mm print, because true scale looks flat at this size. Set the Elevation multiplier to 1 for true scale, or higher for a more dramatic model.
Can I get an STL instead of a 3MF?
The generator exports 3MF, which keeps each color as its own part. Any slicer can open it and save an STL if you need one.
