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 Echo Park:
34.090010, -118.259241
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 Echo 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 Los Angeles County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Echo Park.
Within California, the name Echo Park is unique.
Beyond California, there is another community also named Echo Park in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
North Carolina
Watauga County
This Echo Park is located in Watauga County and lies 2,059 miles [3,313.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Echo Park that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Watauga County community of Echo Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Echo 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.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Echo Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Echo Park and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 358 miles [576.1 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Echo Park to Sacramento, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 21 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 14 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,292 miles [3,688.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 90 days and walking would take 131 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,565 miles [12,174.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,334 miles [13,412.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,324 miles [10,177.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Echo Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Echo 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 Echo Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0900, Longitude: -118.2592 In this case, the coordinates for Echo Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.258 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 336.168 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 325.641 degrees.