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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Glen Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Glen Park and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
    • To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for Glen Park:
    • 34.767591, -86.595549
    • Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
    • Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Glen Park
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Madison County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Madison County
    • Since Glen Park is near Limestone County and also Morgan County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Limestone County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Glen Park

Communities Also Named Glen Park ...

We found ten communities that are also named Glen Park.

Within Alabama, the name Glen Park is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • El Paso County
      • This Glen Park is located in El Paso County and lies 1,052 miles [1,693 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Glen Park that is located in Madison County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Paso County community of Glen Park.
    • Florida
      • Suwannee County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Glen Park [Suwannee County].
    • Illinois
      • La Salle County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Glen Park [La Salle County].
    • Indiana
      • Lake County
      • This Glen Park is located in Lake County and lies 469 miles [754.8 km]<1> to the north of the Glen Park that is located in Madison County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Glen Park.
    • Kansas
      • Wyandotte County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Glen Park [Wyandotte County].
    • Missouri
      • Jefferson County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Glen Park [Jefferson County].
      • Saint Louis County
      • Although located in Saint Louis County, we don't know the location within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Glen Park.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Glen Park lies 1,303 miles [2,097 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glen Park that is located in Madison County.
    • New York
      • Jefferson County
      • This Glen Park is located in Jefferson County and lies 852 miles [1,371.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glen Park that is located in Madison County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Glen Park.
    • Texas
      • Harris County
      • This Glen Park is located in Harris County and lies 615 miles [989.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Glen Park that is located in Madison County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Glen Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Glen Park ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Cavalry Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Cavalry Hill is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cavalry Hill
  • Cedar Valley
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Cedar Valley is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Valley
  • Cherokee Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Cherokee Hills is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Hills
  • Cherry Creek
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Cherry Creek is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Creek
  • Darwin Downs
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Darwin Downs is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin Downs
  • Greenhill
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Greenhill is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhill
  • Grove Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Grove Park is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Park
  • Hillandale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Hillandale is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillandale
  • Huntsville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Lincoln
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Lincoln is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
  • Meadow Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Meadow Hills is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Hills
  • Normal
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Rolling Meadows
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Rolling Meadows is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Meadows
    • Scenic View
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Scenic View is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scenic View
    • Shady Lane
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Shady Lane is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Lane
    • Stag Run
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Stag Run is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stag Run
    • Terry Heights
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Terry Heights is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terry Heights
    • Union Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Union Park is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Park
    • University Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • University Park is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Park
    • Valley Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Valley Park is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Park

How Far From Glen Park to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Glen Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Glen Park and extending to:

  • Huntsville, which is the Seat of Madison County, lies just to the South.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 165 miles [265.5 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Glen Park to Montgomery, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 599 miles [964 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 24 days and walking would take 34 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,483 miles [10,433.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,196 miles [11,580.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,072 miles [8,162.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Glen Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Glen Park could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<5>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Glen Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Glen Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7676, Longitude: -86.5955       In this case, the coordinates for Glen Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.621 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.396 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.937 degrees.